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When David Klinghoffer of the Discovery Institute called me out last week on a recent RD post, I decided to take the opportunity to review the history of the conservative think tank’s role in promoting the inclusion of intelligent design theory in the American science curriculum.

Is there a polite way to describe Newt Gingrich?

Day one of the fasting month is best described as “the almost day.” We are almost into the fast and yet we are almost like the preceding non-fast days.

A distinguished scholar of Islam and gender begins a daily record of the time leading up to her first “journey of a lifetime,” her pilgrimage to Makkah.

Can a new PR campaign change LDS Church image and reality?

Just over two weeks from now Glenn Beck, David Barton and Sarah Palin will be on a stage in front of the Lincoln Memorial for a rally dedicated to “restoring honor” in America.

Which of these book titles are real, actual books, published within the last couple of years?

How can a secular state justify its desire to discriminate between married persons and single persons? What compelling state interest is served by creating such social groups? I suspect that when this debate has made its way through the courts, a new issue will have emerged: that the state has no business in the marriage business, period.

“Jewish Bolshevism” will not die. At least the idea of a Jewish socialist plot to take over our American judicial system has been kept alive by some on the religious right who opposed the nomination of Elena Kagan for the Supreme Court. Now that Kagan has been confirmed by the…

A virtual conversation among RD contributors Anthea Butler, Candace Chellew-Hodge, and Peter Laarman about Judge Walker’s momentous ruling on Prop. 8, on the backlash from the right, and on the contest between religious belief and belief in the rule of law.