Ryan T. Anderson

I don’t know which is more contemptible, that Larry Craig is still a U.S. Senator or that the ACLU is coming to his defense and has filed a brief saying people who have sex in public bathrooms ” have a reasonable expectation of privacy. ” . . . . Continue Reading »

Maggie Gallagher, President of the National Organization for Marriage , sends along the following: Florida Marriage Amendment in Trouble! Help! After an unprecedented audit, the Florida Marriage Amendment (which we thought safely on the 2008 ballot) is in danger of falling just 30,000 signatures . . . . Continue Reading »

David Brooks has a sharp column in the New York Times today. Here’s a taste: Both Clinton and Obama have eagerly donned the mantle of identity politics. A Clinton victory wouldn’t just be a victory for one woman, it would be a victory for little girls everywhere. An Obama victory would . . . . Continue Reading »

Within the past couple weeks, Doubleday has released two new books by First Things board members. You might want to give them a read. In Faith, Reason, and the War Against Jihadism: A Call to Action , George Weigel offers a succinct statement of where the war on jihadism stands today, what . . . . Continue Reading »

I’m not the resident math-guru here at First Things . So I’ll be interested in what Amanda (with her CUA math and English double-major background) might have to say about this review by Jim Holt of John Allen Paulos’s Irreligion: A Mathematician Explains Why the Arguments for God . . . . Continue Reading »

Just before Thanksgiving, news broke about a new stem-cell technique that could produce the equivalent of embryonic stem cells (ESCs) but without using or destroying human embryos. We referred to the news that these cells, called induced pluripotent stem cells (iPSCs), could be made from human skin . . . . Continue Reading »

Earlier this week, I pointed out that 2 of the 3 major American newspapers had taken the Democratic presidential candidates to task over their positions on the “surge.” In today’s Wall Street Journal , Senators John McCain and Joe Lieberman write that ” The Surge Worked . . . . Continue Reading »

There’s been much speculation as to why all the pollsters got the New Hampshire primary so wrong, at least on the Democrat side of things. For the Republic primary, the polls were decently accurate, indicating that the general process and methodology were sound. So what went wrong? The Wall . . . . Continue Reading »

It’s an old story, but it’s in the news again: Activists are claiming there is a human right to intentionally create deaf babies. BioEdge has the latest report : “There is a small minority of activists who say that there is a cultural identity in being born deaf and that we should . . . . Continue Reading »

Both the Washington Post and the Wall Street Journal ran more or less the same editorial today. ” See No Good: Why do the Democratic candidates refuse to acknowledge progress in Iraq? ” is in the Post , and ” Democrats in Denial: The Presidential candidates won’t admit any . . . . Continue Reading »