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On the surface, with its period settings and costumes, the new film Brideshead Revisited looks like a faithful adaptation of the classic novel by...

Obama’s one example of bipartisan, self-sacrifice was a careless lie, told to the wrong audience about the wrong senator.

As the Olympics draw to a close, new evidence of religious freedom abuses offers a stark contrast to China’s efforts to provide religious services...

Day by day, Google and the Internet-at-large are convincing us that knowledge ought to be at our fingertips; whether it is a map, stock-price,...

It finally dawned on me that gay activist arguments explain why being anti-gay is also not a choice but an innate predisposition beyond our power...

The California Supreme Court dealt a blow to religious freedom Aug. 18, critics said, by ruling a fertility doctor cannot refuse to provide a...

Thanks to genetic, robotic, information, and nano technologies—collectively known by the ironic acronym GRIN—mankind is poised for what some call...

I still have deep reservations about identifying the event so closely with a church, but the conversations really did get to urgently important and...

Going in, the significance of the event seemed to be its church setting and audience of 2,200 church members, and the increasingly important...

Sure, swinging and drug abuse were part and parcel of the sixties and seventies. But Swingtown would have you believe that swinging and drugs were...

On Saturday night, presidential hopefuls Sen. John McCain and Sen. Barack Obama shook hands and embraced at the Saddleback Civil Forum, preparing...

Capitalism is a powerful economic system and free and open markets can produce great prosperity. But unless market decisions are informed by...

In Bangkok, on the eve of his visit to Beijing, the president made his stance on China's human-rights record very clear. Not content to level his...

While the world’s eyes have been glued to the Olympics, that quadrennial ersatz bacchanal of goodwill and international cooperation, Russia invaded...

Sexual immorality crosses all partisan lines. Spitzer and Edwards are prominent Democrats, but equally prominent Republicans have been caught in...