This is the season of generational twaddle. At graduation ceremonies across the country, politicians, authors, actors, and businessmen take to the stage to tell young people they are fantastic simply because they are young. This year, the ritual is more pathetic than usual because there’s a presidential election in the offing.

By penalizing old-fashioned morality you do not make toleration of the new morality more likely.

The media are the only real intelligence organization nowadays. They, and only they, get absolute protection of sources and methods.

What Pope Benedict XVI said is that in certain circumstances, using a condom would be less bad than not using one.

It's hard to know who should be more embarrassed by the revelations about the radical group ACORN, the mainstream media or the politicians who have funneled taxpayer dollars to the group for years.

It is an interesting phenomenon that the response of the left half of our political spectrum to criticism and argument is often to try to shut it down.

Many surveys show strong support for the new welfare law, though some polls suggest that many people haven"t heard enough about it to have an opinion.

Review of The Monument: Art and Vulgarity in Saddam Hussein's Iraq, by Kanan Makiya.