Is the Traditional Family Truly Irreplaceable?
By Eric Metaxas | What can you do to help restore the culture of marriage? Well, for starters, you can go to the theater and take a friend. On May 6th, “Irreplaceable,” Focus on the Family’s documentary on the family, will be shown in approximately 700 theaters across the country. Among the people appearing…
Is Free Speech Passé on America’s College Campuses?
By Danielle Charette | American universities ought to be some of the freest places in the world. Instead, aggressive political correctness reigns. These days, academic free speech is passé. It’s far more hip to deny accomplished leaders the chance to address campus. This May, illiberal activists at Rutgers,…
What is the Wider Impact of the Hobby Lobby Ruling?
By Lyle Denniston | The Supreme Court sent a fairly strong signal on Tuesday that its ruling giving some for-profit businesses a right not to provide birth control services to their female workers goes beyond the specific methods at issue in that decision. It issued a series of orders on six cases, each of which…
Free Speech Movement: Lawsuits Challenge Campus Censorship
By James Taranto | ….as we bounce crazily off the walls of Political Correctness. FIRE is attempting to light one. The Philadelphia-based Foundation for Individual Rights in Education today filed four lawsuits challenging campus censorship at institutions across the country: At Citrus Community College in…
Why are Some Seeking a Reverse Form of Feminism Continued?
By Marty Manor Mullins | Not all East European women, therefore, maintain the traditional outlook on gender roles that Dunn’s co-workers did. Dunn herself alludes to this when she describes her experience as a “participant observer:” “There are no guarantees that what is true of one small village or even one…”
Eastern European Women Seeking a Reverse Form of Feminism?
By Marty Manor Mullins | Many women in eastern Europe are seeking “the good life” in a way that would startle many Western feminists. Many East European1 women appear to be bucking today’s feminist trends, preserving a feminism that the Western world long ago abandoned. This phenomenon, strange to our Western…
Is Transgenderism the Next Sexual Tipping Point?
By Janie B. Cheaney | A few years ago we were told that the defining civil rights issue of our time would be same-sex marriage. But that was then. Welcome the new defining civil rights issue, officially announced in a cover story (subscription required) in Time magazine: “The Transgender Tipping Point…
Why are Some Elementary Schools Holding Fake Field Days?
By Kyle Olson | Elementary school field day notice: ‘The competitive urge to win will be kept to a minimum.’ If you don’t understand the phrase “cultural Marxism,” this is a good example. North Hill Elementary in Rochester, Michigan announced its annual field day – like thousands of other elementary schools…
Is Bill O’Reilly Right About Our Colleges, or Not?
By Bill O’Reilly | Who says America is going downhill? When it comes to at least one measure, our nation is way out in front, with the ten most expensive universities in the world. Leading the way is Sarah Lawrence College, where a year of room and board goes for around $62,000. In other words…