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Author/journalist Charles Krauthammer recalls in a posthumous memoir the ideals that inspired a lifetime of debate and reasoning.

Gender pay gap is worse than thought: Study shows women actually earn half the income of men, NBC announced recently in reference to a ...

Nearly 8,000 signatories have joined an on-line petition to show their support for Trump administration’s definition of gender according to sci ...

If I hadn't read it in America's newspaper of record, I would never have believed it. I would have thought that it was parenting advice f ...

Identity politics requires each constituent group to be politically unified. In this way, activists can claim to speak in the name of a given oppress ...

France's "gilets jaunes" protests of December 1 were marked not only by their anger and violence, but also by the variety of those ...

George Herbert Walker Bush, 41st President of the United States, was a man remarkable for civility, that precious but vanishing virtue in public life ...

In reading the recent pastoral letter from the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops on racism, "Open Wide Our Hearts", I was deeply touched ...

For many, Thanksgiving is one of the favorite holidays of the year. In a culture which has lost much of its sense of family, it is a time for familie ...

The sexual abuse of children is everywhere- in institutions, in schools, gyms and in the institutional church. When children are abused, the people o ...

How can human society form and raise up virtuous people? In the Summer/Fall 1982 issue of Modern Age, philosopher Russell Kirk explored this peren ...

We all know about friendship. We have lots of friends: friends at work, in the neighborhood, friends from school or church, friends at the club ...

Do you like to see warnings about violent or other distressing content before watching a TV show or movie, or reading a book? New University of Mi ...

The Council of Graduate Schools (CGS) released its annual report Wednesday on US graduate school enrollment and degrees for 2017 and here are som ...

Fox News personality Tucker Carlson is traveling the country to promote his newest book: "Ship of Fools: How a Selfish Ruling Class is Bringing ...

On Monday, the American Academy of Pediatrics released guidelines to physicians and parents to accept the preferred gender identity of their children ...

Most critics of Supreme Court Justice nominee Brett Kavanaugh are not anti-Catholic, but some are. We know this because both political parties have h ...

From Pope to parish, from Vatican splendor to the humblest Catholic hovel, the outrageous scandals now shaking the Catholic Church are beyond tragic. ...

Some people think of the new automated economy in terrifying and mechanical terms. In such a vision, machines reign supreme as they work tirelessly, ...

A few weeks ago, a member of the Democratic Socialists of America (DSA) wrote an article for Vox explaining the movement's goals to end ...

One year after the infamous "Unite the Right" rally in Charlottesville, we hear about the “Alt-Right” less frequently, but whit ...

For decades, scientists have assumed that the brain circuitry for social behavior has developed over millions of years of evolution and is hardwired ...

"If the Pope were to deny that the death penalty could be an exercise of retributive justice, he would be overthrowing the tradition of two mill ...

Angeline is just one of millions of children who are scared and intimidated to run and tell that they had been raped, abused or sexually assaulted. ...

Psychologist Jordan Peterson of the University of Toronto explained his recent video for Prager University in which he warned parents that their ...

April 20 marked yet another anniversary of the Columbine shooting, the event that woke our nation to the problem of bullying. Since then, almost all ...

Set in Sacramento in 2002-2003, Greta Gerwig's female coming-of-age story Lady Bird provides two main points of perspective on the otherwise cl ...

The incel movement (short for involuntarily celibate) movement has been linked to a recent mass killing, mainly of women, in Toronto. O ...

A three-year-old girl remains in critical condition in Detroit after being shot in the head. On Saturday, little London Clark was in the backseat of ...

We knew that younger Catholics were going to church in fewer numbers than in the past, but what is new about this Gallup poll is the decline among ol ...

In Venezuela, where the South American nation's economy continues to implode under its socialist government, a video of children and adults scr ...

Several years ago, I read about a church that underwent a major renovation. Parishioners had invested generously in order to have a church building t ...

Recently, for a talk in Chicago to parents of high school boys, I had to update my knowledge based on a 2009 review of the effects of pornography. On ...

The power of a few courageous people is not to be underestimated.  We have many web sites, videos and news outlets where we accumulate articl ...

 After a French court acquitted a 30-year old man of child rape after he had sexual relations with an 11-year old, the public was outraged and r ...

This week “Flippy” -- which is billed as the world’s first autonomous kitchen robot -- began flipping hamburger patties in Californ ...

At least three people witnessed a well-dressed man punching a 22-year-old male victim at Times Square subway station in New York City. Police are hun ...

Child abuse in all its cruel and insidious forms is the scourge of our society. It always has been and always will be unless more good people s ...

February 7 starts National Marriage Week. I propose that, in conjunction with this annual event, we identify, and create, music that promotes marriag ...

Once scheduled for launch in June, NASA astronaut Jeanette Epps, who was scheduled to be the first blac ...

There’s abundant speculation that our smartphones make us less happy. Twitter: saps your attention. Facebook: fills you with FOMO. Email: your ...

Famed French actress Brigitte Bardot dismissed the so-called #MeToo movement which has been inspired by sexual harassment accusations directed by wom ...

The protests in Iran are not only about economics and politics, they’re also about Islam. Iran in the 1960's saw mini skirts, smiling wom ...

Informing Iran, "The U.S. is watching what you do," Amb. Nikki Haley called an emergency meeting Friday of the Security Council regarding t ...

Immigration-related higher-education fraud comes in two different packages and we saw both kinds over the past month. The more common example is i ...

It is a great beginning to the New Year. Prominent women and men in Hollywood and London have launched a movement to end sexual harassment in the wor ...

A video trailer is supposed to be a teaser, but in this case it falls flat, leading nowhere. Jay-Z's recently released "Fami ...

The religious observance of Christmas appears to be decline, according to a survey conducted by the Pew Research Center. Pew found that 55 percent of ...

A growing share of Americans have felony records, according to data recently published in the journal Demography. Among African Americans, the rati ...

Saving lives during the communist takeover of China...

"The smart way to keep people passive and obedient is to strictly limit the spectrum of acceptable opinion, but allow very lively debate within ...

New And Bad Tax November 7, 2017Featured, Life and Family, Policy Research, Spending and Taxes Lotteries tend to be popular with the public because ...

Award-winning actor Denzel Washington said that people "can't blame the system" in referring to rates of incarceration of black men ...

For the past few years, an animal shelter in Teterboro, New Jersey has posted a note on Facebook saying it was hosting a blessing of animals. The ble ...

The term “welfare state” has become political fodder; coarse rhetorical food used to feed a docile electorate with pro or against platitu ...

The HOPE Act restores the 1990s welfare-to-work reforms that “ended welfare as we know it,” to use Bill Clinton’s phrase. These pol ...

Last Saturday night, Callista and I had the great privilege of attending the Marine Corps Ball in Rome, Italy. The event commemorated the 242nd birth ...

Justice Clarence Thomas told Laura Ingraham of Fox News Channel's "Ingraham Angle" on Wednesday that he doesn't know what holds Ame ...

Citing his own family’s struggles with addiction, President Donald Trump movingly declared the opioid epidemic a public health emergency.& ...

When a person makes a mean-spirited bigoted comment, he is not exculpated if he is a member of the group he disparages. What matters is not the biogr ...

Prince Zeid Ra’ad Al Hussein, the UN’s top human rights official, was conspicuously silent about LGBT issues when he addressed the Genera ...

A survey by Statista reveals that in Belgium 68 percent of the people believe that religion does more harm than good: Germany, Spain, Australia, ...

The case of Harvey Weinstein raises a number of issues that need to be discussed in public, but in a way that challenges the current media display of ...

Mary’s Advocates is inviting lawyers, researches, and divorce defendants to critique and copy a sample motion (HERE) asking a judge to say, &ld ...

based in Irving, TX, the national chairman of the National Catholic Committee on Scouting said that his group will "accept and work with th ...

The Freedom From Religion Foundation (FFRF), a militant atheist organization, lost in its bid to offer a non-prayer invocation on the floor of the U. ...

Hugh Hefner's legacy cannot be adequately assessed without addressing the sociological fallout of "The Playboy Philosophy." Hefner f ...

An adult child of divorce, Matthew Johnston, told me during our interview about the constitutional challenge his mother is making against New Yor ...

High school students everywhere struggle to control the use of their phones. Here is some sound advice from the Headmaster of The Heights School in Washington DC.