Here’s hope for the future: 53 percent of 12-graders in America failed the Department of Education’s NAEP assessment tests in U.S. history conducted in 2006. And this is actually an improvement over the results from the 2001 edition of NAEP, which 57 percent of 12-graders failed. Then we...

Today our brothers and sisters in the Eastern Churches celebrate the Resurrection of Our Lord, a quirk of the Julian/Gregorian calendrical split, but more closely following the Jewish calendar. Christ is risen from the dead, Trampling down death by death, And upon those in the tombs Bestowing life! Enough...

Being a Yankee, it has escaped my attention that some governments have been designating April as ‘Confederate History Month.’ One could hope that these people might be history buffs who also want to see something like ‘House of Tudor Month’ or ‘Jin Dynasty Month.’...

“Do you think America wants hope right now? Because fear seems to be winning.” – Stephen Colbert, April 24, 2008

The good folks at Moody Publishers recently sent me a copy of Sex, Sushi, and Salvation, a new book by Christian George. We’ve done book reviews before here at ITA, but I’ve never been been solicited to do one. I feel a bit like Tim Challies. There’s a minor genre these days of 20-something...

1. A blogger for the liberal magazine Mother Jones calls Hillary Clinton “the undead” candidate. She doesn’t have a shot at winning outright, but she has enough support to justify, to her at least, staying in the race. 2. In other news, there’s still a conservative who cares...

Nicholas White was trapped in an elevator in New York City’s McGraw-Hill building for forty-one hours. Click here to watch a condensed look at White’s ordeal, as captured by the building’s security cameras.

It was Christian philosopher Francis Schaeffer who most famously placed art front and center in the examination of a society’s worldview. When most Christian leaders were focusing on teaching and preaching, Schaeffer sought to remind us that one can worship God through art. Or, as he put it, “art...

This is pretty cool. Some students in David Heddle’s department at Christopher Newport University took all the components of a desktop computer and placed them in a fish tank filled with mineral oil. It’s neat to look at, but I wonder if it provides improved cooling efficiency over a traditional...

As Neil Postman and Zach Wendling have noted, politics on television is the height of triviality. Rarely is anything noteworthy said and rarely is anything of substance discussed. Last night’s Democratic debate was no exception. Thanks to my wretched cable company, which doesn’t carry...