Conna Craig is a former foster child, and adoptee, who heads the Institute for children in Cambridge, Mass. She describes a teenage present-day foster child who observed, “Everywhere I go, someone makes money by keeping me from having a mom and dad.” How can that be? How can the child welfare system that is supposed to protect and serve kids Read More ›
The U.S. is heading for a new type of young adult: upbeat, colorful, civic-minded. A recent Wall Street Journal series called them Generation Y, but I prefer the term “Millennials”–because this is the age cohort that will start graduating rom high school seven months before the new century commences. And these “kids” are already sending us clear signals. ITEM: A Read More ›
A recent press conference held by the NAACP and a group of angry white, female Army personnel at Aberdeen Proving Ground in Maryland was a public relations breaktrhough. It had the intended effect of showing that over-zealous Army brass had pressured the women to make unfounded rape charges against a group of black male soldiers. But it also demonstrated how Read More ›
Americans either tend to hate to love it, or to love to hate it. But neither attitude toward the United Nations is appropriate to the situation today. Neither is the old, idealistic view on the far left that the UN eventually should develop into some kind of world government, nor the recent far right delusion that the UN is trying Read More ›
The scandal game in Washington, DC is only going to get worse, and you may want a scorecard. That is because the latest collection of charges could turn out to do long-term damage to our system of representative democracy, leading to false reforms that will make matters worse, not better. Here is the dilemma: If serious law breaking at high Read More ›
American politics has lots of bad habits. Among them: Nothing (or is defined as) a scandal or a crisis. Two others: Politicize the nonpolitical; criminalize the noncriminal. Yet another: Regard accusations as proof of guilt. And yet another: Whenever possible, sue. And now this ugliness has reached the military, a supposedly apolitical institution being torn apart by cumulative crises and Read More ›
It was a year ago when my wife and I began thinking of taking a vacation trip to our nation’s capital. A friendly fundraiser for the Democratic National Committee recommended lodging in the center of town in order to be close to the sights. And what could be more convenient–or more secure–than The White House? Tennis, swimming, excellent food, fine Read More ›
If illegal use of confidential FBI files is proven, Filegate will most resemble that part of Watergate wherein White House zeal to dig up dirt on others led to dirty practices–and genuine scandal. No one familiar with the White House pass system could believe that “Project Update” was merely concerned with reviewing 407 FBI files of former presidents’ aides to see if they still merited passes. That transparently false explanation is even more suggestive of a cover-up than the reluctance of the White House to provide Congress with evidence of the affair.
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As it struggles to comprehend nature, science sometimes has to completely re-think how the world works. For example, Newton’s laws apply to everyday objects but can’t handle nature’s tiny building blocks. Propelled by this discovery, quantum mechanics overthrew Newton’s theory. Revolutions in biology have included the cell theory of life in the 19th century, as well as the slow realization Read More ›
The following is Michael Behe’s response to the essays published by Boston Review following Allen Orr’s review of Darwin’s Black Box. Allen Orr Professor Orr has a mistaken notion of irreducible complexity. I thought I made that clear in my reply, but from his response I suppose I did not, so let me try again. I define irreducible complexity in Read More ›
According to Michael Ward’s announcement in the 1996 issue of the Wade Center’s journal SEVEN, donations are being accepted for a handsome C. S. Lewis memorial to be erected along Addison’s Walk at Magdalen College in time for Lewis’s 1998 centennial. The President of Magdalen College approves. A distinguished stonemason named Alec Peever (who has original works in Westminster Abbey, Read More ›
In the D. L. Scudders bookstore in Fresno, CA, Mr. Scudders offered Lewis buff David Baumann a copy of the July 1964 issue of The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction. On pp. 74-75 the editors published a Lewis poem prefaced by the following significant tribute. C. S. Lewis wrote a wide and rich variety of books — the well-known Read More ›