Connor Ewing: Saying something is a civil right is to offer a description, not to provide a justification.

Yet another article on the decline of marriage misses the point: if you want people to do something, try reminding them why it’s a good idea.

You are the director of a large youth basketball league. Thousands of kids of all ages learn the game on your watch, and many go on to college and pro careers. Your organization is very successful, because – although it has a reputation for being very tough to play in – it plays by NBA [...]

In case you didn’t know already, Dorothy Sayers was brilliant. A theologian and Christian humanist in the era of the Inklings, she treated the Trinity in The Mind of the Maker and recapped the Christian tradition in Creed or Chaos?. She attended Socratic Club meetings with her friend C.S. Lewis, although his pal Tolkien apparently [...]

From Achilles to Obama, men have yearned to achieve immortality through great deeds that would outlive them. The former sought to do deeds on a human level and is remembered thousands of years later. The latter seeks to achieve permanent political and social change, and perhaps posterity will nod to him as well. Yet both [...]