Iraqi Christians Are Being Martyred, but How ’Bout that Grand Canyon?

By Charlotte Hays August 11, 2014

Almost the only quote we lightly educated western Christians remember from Tertullian, who wrote in the second and third centuries and had an admittedly bumpy relationship with the Catholic Church, ...

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Old School

By Charlotte Hays May 1, 2014

I’m, like, digging Charles Murray’s new book, which grew — at the suggestion of his colleague Karlyn Bowman — out of in-house tips on grammar and usage for super-smart kids ...

We Need More Margaret Thatchers

By Charlotte Hays April 8, 2013

While others here are more able to assess her political and historical significance, I shall address another aspect of Lady Thatcher’s greatness: She drove ’em nuts. “We on the Left ...

Sign of the Crass

By Charlotte Hays November 26, 2012

Now I know that Oscar-winner Jamie Foxx had hailed President Obama “our lord and savior,” but I still think this was a bit much: In pardoning the Thanksgiving turkey this ...

Barack Obama: Yesterday’s Man

By Charlotte Hays August 30, 2012

What was so deft in Paul Ryan’s speech last night was the image of a fading President Obama, a man “grasping at a moment that has already passed, like a ...

Sex and the Married Editrix

By Charlotte Hays August 14, 2012

Helen Gurley Brown, author of the groundbreaking Sex and the Single Girl (1962) and the founding editor of Cosmopolitan magazine, who died Monday at the age of 90, set the ...

Why Aren’t Episcopalians Sexy?

By Charlotte Hays July 13, 2012

The Episcopal Church’s 77th General Convention, which just concluded in Indianapolis, made me think of a New Yorker cartoon oft-cited among former Episcopalians. The cartoon features a nude male body being ...

The Reporter Did the Right Thing

By Charlotte Hays March 27, 2012

This may be the only time in my life that I side with a New York Times reporter over a Republican candidate. On the video of Rick Santorum’s lashing out at Times ...

Feel Good with Rick

By Charlotte Hays February 8, 2012

If you think Rick Santorum can get independents, go for it, folks. Senator Santorum, who enjoyed a magnificent triumph in three states last night, deserves a lot of credit, as ...

A Word of Advice

By Charlotte Hays January 25, 2012

Who on earth is advising Mitt Romney? Somebody should have stopped this: “Romney blasts Gingrich over attack on debate moderators, news media” Yikes! Note to Mitt advisers: Republicans hate the news media. Got ...