In "What is Conservative Culture?" (July 3, 2006 issue of The New Republic), Rick Perlstein reports that a new kind of prom has spung up in some fundamentalist communities. It's not for high school seniors but for prepubescent girls. They dress up in party dresses and take their fathers as…
Over the course of my life, I've met many heterosexuals. To my knowledge, not one of them has ever spontaneously become homosexual. Likewise, I've met many homosexuals and, to my knowledge, not one of them as ever spontaneously become heterosexual. Likewise, I've never (to my knowledge) met a pedophile, but…
I didn't believe it, either, but here's the article: What's next, listing left-handedness as a mental disorder?
A few years ago, in his State of the Union speech, President Bush called for a massive increase in federal spending to help fight the AIDS epidemic in Africa. At the time, I was suprised that Bush -- who is not known as a friend of AIDS victims, people of…
For many months, I knew that something horrible was haunting Sophie. Finally, one quiet night, she broke down and told me all of the details about that awful dilemma she faced several years before, while she was a prisoner in a concentration camp. Sophie had arrived at the camp with…