Joe Carter

First, the good news: According to data from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Americans, at least as a group, may have reached their peak of obesity. Now the bad news: The plateau might just suggest that “we’ve reached a biological limit” to how obese people could get. . . . . Continue Reading »

Tens of thousands of Haitians have already died in the wake of the devastating earthquake on Tuesday, and tens of thousands more are threatened by disease and a lack of food and clean water. We thought this would be an appropriate moment to revisit David B. Hart’s essay from the March 2005 . . . . Continue Reading »

If you’re knowledge of Egyptian history is limited to repeated viewings of Cecil B. De Mille’s Ten Commandments , you’re probably under the impression that Moses and his Hebrew brethren provided the slave labor that built the pyramids. But new archaeological findings reveal the . . . . Continue Reading »

Economics blogger Mike Mandel finds that 35 percent of college graduates have a degree beyond the B.A., up from 32.7 percent in 1999. Yet the growth, he finds, is at the masters and professional level: the proportion of workers with Ph.D’s has been declining since 2004 and is now under 4.5 . . . . Continue Reading »

Homeschooling parents are accustomed to the prejudice, misunderstanding, and scorn that results from choosing to take direct charge of their children’s educations. Because of this, finding fresh ways to insult the diverse and varied homeschooling movement can be quite a task. Robin L. West of . . . . Continue Reading »

On his Christian Broadcasting Network today, Pat Robertson told viewers : And you know, Christy, something happened a long time ago in Haiti, and people might not want to talk about it, they were under the heel of the French, uh, you know, Napoleon the third and whatever, and they got together and . . . . Continue Reading »

I double-checked the date and this New York Times story was indeed written yesterday, and not in 1961: A suburban Dallas school district has suspended a 4-year-old from his prekindergarten class because he wears his hair too long and does not want his parents to cut it. The boy, Taylor Pugh, says . . . . Continue Reading »

“Jews are a famously accomplished group,” says David Brooks , opening his column with an understatement. When the successes of the Jewish people are listed, it never fails to impress. Consider some of the examples Brooks gives: They make up 0.2 percent of the world population, but 54 . . . . Continue Reading »

The latest report from the Red Cross is that the devastating earthquake in Haiti has left an estimated 3 million people in need of emergency aid. The aid organization says Haiti’s disaster relief teams were “completely overwhelmed.” If you would like to help, the American Red . . . . Continue Reading »

The battle over embryonic stem cell research is over. A few skirmishes will no doubt continue—perhaps even for years—and some ESCR advocates will refuse to acknowledge defeat. But they have decisively lost. Years from now, when we look back in astonishment at having been fleeced for . . . . Continue Reading »