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For well over a century, many prophets of doom have predicted world overpopulation would lead to ecological disaster, famine, poverty and other...

The growing trend of treating pets like people is happening at a time when a misanthropy that sees people as the source of all the world’s problems...

If American history is any guide to the American present, we are on the edge of a great revival of traditional Christianity.

How do we simply—very, very simply—explain the mindboggling generational debt being produced right now by President Obama and the Democratic...

If this article had appeared in a newspaper less illustrious and authoritative than The Wall Street Journal, I would have assumed it to be a hoax....

Rather than approaching food and sex reasonably and in a similar way, we have opted for what Mary Eberstadt calls “mindful eating and mindless...

With the nation’s economic crisis, states are struggling to pay for their massive prison systems. That means the states and the federal government...

AIG deserves criticism, blame, yes, even anger, for its role in bringing our economy to its knees. But let's take a deep breath, calm down, and...

The extension of adolescence into the late twenties is highly correlated with the rise of secularism and with lower rates of church attendance.

According to a new study, terminally-ill cancer patients who “drew comfort from religion” don’t want to die if they don’t have to. But the study...

TIME's list of "10 Ideas Changing the World Right Now" is not only a collection of interesting articles, it is, in itself, a sign of our cultural...

Let us hope that the ghost of economist John Keynes and his theories do not linger long. If it does, our country will pay a frightful price.

Our teenagers live like the twenty-year-olds of their parents' generation, while possessing the maturity of five-year-olds.

One new book shows how teenage sexual activity can affect the brain. It's not good news.

Conservatives opposed to Obama's reversal on embryonic stem-cell funding say the decision will cripple funding for adult stem-cell research, which...