Harvard professor Michael Sandel has an idea that would revolutionize political discourse – and it’s not to eliminate cable news.

When it comes to corporate moral responsibility, the media is consistently double minded. Steve Jobs, one of the most inspired visionaries of our time, is more than just a businessman–and Apple is more than just a business.  From an early age Steve Jobs set out to run his own company and build...

Books that promise to radically change the way I see the world make me skeptical. Living Gently in a Violent World was no different, except insofar as that it actually did. Living Gently is a release by InterVarsity Press in their ongoing series “Resources for Reconciliation,” which addresses...

By John Mark Reynolds College presidents are not always wrong. Here is one they get right: Americans should rethink our polices toward alcohol and young adults. Eighteen year old adults should have the legal choice to drink in this culture. College faculty and administrators know that thousands of...

The appetite for sex, thought C.S. Lewis, is in “ludicrous and preposterous excess of its function.” How else, he wondered, can we explain the fascination men have with watching a girl publicly undress on a stage? The “strip-tease” shows the absurdity of our propensity for sexual...

Earlier this week the Supreme Court debated whether the rape of children should be punishable by execution. In deciding the case of Patrick Kennedy, a Louisiana man who raped his 8-year-old stepdaughter, the Court could determine whether the death penalty is extended to crimes other than murder. The...

The news of New York Governor Eliot Spitzer’s dalliances with high-priced prostitutes fills me with sadness, regret, and dread. Sadness over the Governor’s shaming his family in such a public way, regret at having to listen to the smirking schadenfreude of his political enemies, and dread...

If I told you I was an ornithologist, you could conclude that, like John James Audubon, I study birds. If I say I’m an economist then you would presume that, like Alan Greenspan, I study markets. But if I claim to be a moralist you would not presume that I study morality, but think that, like Gladys...

For those who hold a belief in naturalism–the theory that all phenomena can be explained mechanistically in terms of material causes–issues of philosophy are always problematic. When it comes to issues of metaphysics or epistemology, the naturalist can often simply ignore the fact that their...

The story so far: My post on waterboarding has stirred quite a reaction on RedState. After Alexham linked to it approvingly, Thomas, Jeff Emanuel, Dan McLaughlin responded with their dissent. This spurred another round of discussion, including posts by Thomas