Culture

A clever line delivered by Bill Gates to New York Times columnist Thomas Friedman, pointing out that the Chinese have a large talent base: “In China, when you’re one-in-a-million, there are 1,300 other people just like you.”

I don’t find myself incredibly attentive to politics, but I do care about the unborn. I have one. Pray that Bart Stupak holds on.

Lewis’ words ground me when major scientific issues arise. I as a voting citizen—and, more importantly, a human charged with wise dominion over the earth—am responsible to evaluate the public arguments as best I can, which is something I do through major (responsible)...

I regularly receive e-mails from a concerned friend alerting me to conspiracies to destroy America. I've often struggled to know what to say to him, because if his claims are not provable, they're equally impossible to disprove! Wild-eyed, alarmist, a little wacky—but...

Peggy Noonan offers left- and right-winged examples of the level to which our national discourse has sunk: A few days ago, I was sent a link to a screed by MSNBC's left-wing anchorman Ed Schultz, in which he explained opposition to the president's health-care reform....

We have arrived, it seems, at a moment in our history when the most vigorous and coherent counterculture around is the one constructed by conservative Christians. ... It is conservative Christians... who, more self-consciously than any other large social group, buck...

If you, like me, have been looking for a thoughtful, definitive article on the health care crisis, I highly recommend this lengthy piece in the Atlantic. I just finished it, and I found it incredibly sane. The writer, a Democrat, had a perspective that I felt put...