Pope Benedict, Islam, and the European Death Wish

Besides oil, the most successful export from the Islamic world appears to be outrage. And for people supposedly so confident in their exclusive possession of the complete truth (capital “T” truth as we used to call it in graduate school),… Read More

Are Migrants the Hope of Mankind, or a Blight on Man’s Future?

There is a simple truth that all of the moralistic posturing of United Nations apologists cannot obscure: When it comes to international development policy, ideology matters. Beliefs guide policy design, which in turn affects outcomes.
And so it is worth… Read More

An Inconvenient Dissident: Forced Sterilizations and the New York Times

Liberals have been talking a great deal these days about inconvenient truths, so here are about a billion for them to ponder: the Chinese people and their plight under the state’s draconian birth control laws. These laws have always been… Read More

Billionaires Beyond Scrutiny

On Sunday, July 2, the New York Times broke the story of a vast, left-wing conspiracy to impose abortion rights on the entire world. The item ran on page A1, above the fold, long the most influential location in all… Read More

The Stealth Strategy for Imposing Universal Abortion

At the conclusion of the United Nation's annual Commission on the Status of Women last week, one women's advocate sniffed: “To ask governments and international financial institutions to ensure equal participation is a step in the right direction, but the… Read More

Blind Leading the Blind

Can a single blind man bring down the most coercive population control program in world history? Last October, I reported in this space on Chen Guangcheng, a Chinese human rights activist who dared to wonder — in public — if… Read More

Europe’s Malaise

In this column, you will not find an answer to the Big Question concerning the French riots: whether they portend a true Clash of Civilizations between Islam and the West, or at least between Islam and the continent of Europe,… Read More

What the Halloween Hullabaloo Says about Our Culture

Have you noticed that the average suburban Halloween decoration has evolved from a jack-o-lantern or two, perhaps an autumnal wreath, into a front yard festooned as if by Freddy Kruger? It is clear that both the macabre elements of Halloween,… Read More

Future “Belongs” to the Religious, Says Demographer

An article in the current issue of the prestigious quarterly Foreign Affairs warns that, since religious people are having so many more children than nonreligious people, the future actually “belongs” to the religious.
Phillip Longman, a senior fellow at the… Read More

“Catholics” for a Free Choice Continue Assault on the Family

In its latest publication, the pro-abortion group “Catholics” for a Free Choice (CFFC) uses the HIV/AIDS epidemic in an attempt to undermine Catholic moral teaching on sexuality. In the pamphlet, “Sex in the HIV/AIDS Era, a Guide for Catholics,” CFFC… Read More

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