The Schindler Family—Terri Schiavo’s mother and siblings—are some of the finest people I know. Their indomitable fight to save Terri from a cruel and medically unnecessary slow dehydration—in the face of media smears and fury among some who went berserk over their desire to . . . . Continue Reading »
Of course he does: It doesn’t really surprise me that Carter, a former President/former Southern Baptist, thinks America is ready for an openly gay president. In fact, I fear that he’s probably right. A significant number of Americans have exchanged both the Bible and two millennia of . . . . Continue Reading »
Tomorrow the European Court of Human Rights will announce their decision in ABC v. Ireland , which could, writes William Saunders of Americans United for Life, “become the Roe v. Wade of Europe.” A legal consultant to pro-life intervenors in the case, he’s written an . . . . Continue Reading »
Why can’t we do things right as a society? Why do we always slouch toward the expedient?I bring this up because marijuana has medicinal properties that could alleviate much human suffering. But federal law—the Controlled Substances Act—declares that it has zero legitimate . . . . Continue Reading »
Here’s my story of my appearance on local TEA PARTY radio. Why is it on BIG THINK? Well, they young guys who run BIG THINK (with, I hope, good reason) think of themselves as something akin to the founders of GOOGLE or YOUTUBE. They flattered me by saying I’m that rare (because . . . . Continue Reading »
A Norwegian reality show, The Great Norway Adventure , takes American-Norwegians, some generations beyond their ancestral homeland, and initiates them by various contests to the true rites of passage real Norwegians are said to put up with in becoming authentically Norski. One of the . . . . Continue Reading »
Eve Tushnet explains why Mormon parents do a better job than most of keeping their children from the “mutant creed best understood as ‘Moralistic Therapeutic Deism.’” Parents who show, by their words or their actions, that the tenets and practices of their faith are vague, . . . . Continue Reading »
Mark Oppenheimer on why religious minority groups should resist the pull of assimilation : [H]ow much blander America would be if the broad, largely secular, and increasingly materialistic Christmas season were everyone’s tradition. If Muslims, Jews, the Amish, the Hindus, and all the rest of . . . . Continue Reading »
Momentous indeed: It is one thing, and isn’t another—and that’s not mere subjective opinion. Or so we read in What is Marriage, a new and momentous paper authored by First Things board member Robert P. George, along with former First Things assistant editor Ryan Anderson and Rhodes . . . . Continue Reading »
I don’t know much about Virginia’s Attorney General Ken Cuccinelli, but his big victory against Obamacare—and his articulateness—make me think a political star is being born. But his political future is beyond SHS’s scope. For our purposes, in the clip below, Cuccinelli . . . . Continue Reading »
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