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"Christianity, and nothing else, is the ultimate foundation of liberty, conscience, human rights, and democracy, the benchmarks of Western civilization. To this day, we have no other options [than Christianity]. We continue to nourish ourselves from this source. Everything else is postmodern chatter."

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Re-thinking Life

Pro-choice, anti-guilt - Jonathan Kay

Fifteen years ago, philosopher James Q. Wilson proposed a provocative new take on abortion.

Choice and the Alienated Ego - Donald DeMarco

Why, even though abortion has been virtually unrestricted for years, do so few women who have undergone abortion ever talk about it?

 

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Parochial-School Lessons - Christopher Willcox

A solution to a 19th-century problem finds success in a 21st-century setting. Read more...

Choice and the Alienated Ego - Donald DeMarco

Why, even though abortion has been virtually unrestricted for years, do so few women who have undergone abortion ever talk about it? Read more...

OK, Virginia, There's No Santa Claus. But There Is God - Tony Woodlief

My 8-year-old son, Caleb, puts his hand on my shoulder; he wears an expression that shows he wants to have a man-to-man talk. Read more...

Christmas Reflection - Pope Benedict XVI

Precisely today, we begin the days of Advent that immediately prepare us for the nativity of the Lord. Read more...

Dark days when you had to be polite to bankers - Paul Johnson

I am old enough to remember the last slump -- I was three in 1932 and lived in the Potteries in North Staffordshire, always a precarious area economically, and badly hit by slack trade. Read more...

All very juvenile and incorrect - Rex Murphy

I know Margaret Wente has already wrung out the dishcloth on this one, but I figure it's worth one more passing squeeze. Read more...

Say it loud and proud: 'Merry Christmas' - Theo Caldwell

One recent December, a tour guide on Canada's Parliament Hill was overheard referring to the "Christmas Trees" in the main hall. Read more...

Meditation on Christmas Eve - Angelo Giuseppe Roncalli (Pope John XXIII)

This was written on Christmas Eve, 1902 by a young Italian named Angelo Giuseppe Roncalli who was studying for the priesthood in Rome. Read more...

Sola scriptura minus the scriptura - Mollie Hemingway

I knew we had to take a look at Newsweek's cover story when I read the first line. It was just that bad. Read more...

Human Rights at 60 - Joseph Loconte

They aren't what they used to be. Read more...


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