Exploitative Reality Shows Degrade Us, Too
By Colleen Carroll Campbell
Friday, June 26, 2009
The excruciatingly public marital troubles between Jon and Kate Gosselin reached their predictable denouement Monday when the reality television stars announced their impeding divorce before an audience of 10.6 million.  And true to form, the couple assured viewers that the divorce would not interfere with their hit cable series. As Kate Gosselin said gravely, "The show must go on."

Judging Justices, Catholic and Otherwise
By George Weigel
Friday, June 26, 2009
"Empathy" is an admirable quality in a judge in certain legal circumstances -- sentencing, for example -- but not in determining what the law means. No claim to superior "empathy" ought to change that constitutional fact. Indeed, the federal judicial oath itself enjoins a dispassionate commitment to equal justice on all judges. 

What Happened to Sisterhood?
By Colleen Carroll Campbell
Friday, June 19, 2009
It took David Letterman a week and a few false starts, but the late-night comedian finally apologized for joking on national television about the statutory rape of Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin's 14-year-old daughter. It's hard to imagine Letterman making similar cracks about President Barack Obama's daughters, who are not much younger than Palin's, or about Obama's mother, who was an unmarried teenager when she conceived the future president.

Let Us Now Praise the Little Professor
By George Weigel
Wednesday, June 17, 2009
In another summer of baseball's steroid-driven discontent -- A-Rod scandals, Manny's suspension, Clemens's denials, etc., -- it's worth remembering a different era in the pastime, the virtues of which were embodied by the other DiMaggio: Dom, the Little Professor, kid brother of Joltin' Joe, the Yankee Clipper.