Author Archives: Heather Mac Donald

According to Wall Street Journal blogger James Taranto, living in modern America, with its easy-going, good-natured inclusiveness, while also believing that your office-mate–who stayed up all night finishing your sales report so you could nurse your sick child–will burn in … Continue reading →

From his blog: Firing off his cap pistol in the enfeebled War against the War on Christmas, Jay Nordlinger, sounding like one of Cal Thomas’s old cardigan sweaters, simpers, “Two seconds ago, ‘Merry Christmas’ was about the warmest, nicest, most … Continue reading →

From two New York Times articles on the Bernard Madoff fraud: As it does each day, the Yeshiva [University] community has turned to religion for strength, and to help shepherd it through a crisis Rabbi Shalom Carmy, chairman of the … Continue reading →

The press’s animosity towards religious belief is a fundamental tenet of the religious conservative movement. “We’ve seen what we feel is a clear rise in hostility [to religion] among our institutions — political institutions and media institutions,” Craig Parshall of … Continue reading →

Christopher Hitchens accuses Rick Warren of bigotry for believing that Jews will not go to heaven (thanks to Wally for the link). Hitchens’ condemnation strikes me as unduly harsh. I don’t think it’s fair to label a theological position as … Continue reading →

I regret having written an insensitive post on a recent tragedy in Cincinnati. It was an egregious failure of judgment for which I take full responsibility.

Barack Obama’s invitation to evangelical powerhouse Rick Warren to deliver the inaugural invocation has angered abortion and gay rights advocates. They are overreacting. The invitation merely confirms Obama’s admirable willingness to reach out across a relatively broad ideological spectrum . … Continue reading →