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June 2025

June 20, 2025

DISCUSS: Trump vs. MAGA?

President Trump is being accused of backtracking on some of his signature issues, such as...

June 19, 2025

What Comes After the Knowledge System Collapse?

if Gioia is right that our existing knowledge system is collapsing, what might we expect...

June 18, 2025

The Collapse of Our Knowledge System

"The biggest news story of our century is happening right now—but is never mentioned in...

June 17, 2025

Protests, Riots, and Sending in the Troops

Protests against efforts to deport illegal immigrants in Los Angeles degenerated into riots, as protesters...

June 16, 2025

Monday Miscellany, 6/16/25

Israel's new war with Iran. Unemployment rate for computer engineering grads is double that of...

June 13, 2025

Evidence for Collective Wisdom

The greatest chess player in the world was stalemated by 143,000 ordinary players who voted...

June 13, 2025

DISCUSS: Should We Eliminate the Debt Limit?

President Trump says he agrees with Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-MA) that the federal debt limit...

June 12, 2025

Does Everything Have Consciousness?

Secularist materialism is starting to fade. This is evident in the vogue of panpsychism, the...

June 11, 2025

The Democrats’ Civil War

Liberal pundit Jonathan Chait has written a provocative article for the Atlantic entitled T"he Coming...

June 10, 2025

The Hidden Christians

In the 16th century, Jesuit missionaries brought Christianity to Japan. But then the Shoguns exterminated...

June 09, 2025

Monday Miscellany, 6/9/25

Even liberal justices rule against reverse discrimination. A bigger percentage of blacks are "Christian nationalists"...

June 06, 2025

Why Suffering Does Not Negate the Goodness of Life

A FREE POST: The view that the fact of suffering negates the goodness of life...

June 06, 2025

DISCUSS: Trump’s “One Big Beautiful Bill”

What do you think of President Trump's spending bill? What provisions would you axe? What...

June 05, 2025

“Pro-Mortalists” Actually Are Pro-Death

The terrorist who car bombed a fertility clinic recently was not pro-life, as was first...

June 04, 2025

Picking Up a Piece of Paper

Our lives are filled with small, seemingly insignificant moments. But they can turn out to...

June 03, 2025

Resolving the Worship Wars of Generation Z

"Christianity Today" has an article about how Generation Z Christians seem to like both traditional...

June 02, 2025

Monday Miscellany, 6/2/25

The death of currency precision. A technology that thwarts AI cheating. And legislator stripped of...

May 2025

May 30, 2025

Misconceptions about the Nicene Creed

Clearing up misconceptions about the Nicene Creed: It is not just "Roman Catholic." The emperors...

May 30, 2025

DISCUSS: Do You Feel Free?

Do you feel free? Are you satisfied with your personal freedom? Why do you think...

May 29, 2025

Finishing the Nicene Creed

Though we are celebrating the 1,700th anniversary of the Council of Nicaea, that gathering of...

May 28, 2025

The Nicene Creed & Worship

On the occasion of the 1700th anniversary of the Nicene Creed, a patristics scholar explains...

May 27, 2025

Piercing God

A Jewish scholar writes about the nature of blasphemy, the Hebrew word for which is...

May 26, 2025

Monday Miscellany, 5/26/25

AI Developer Says We “do not understand how our own AI creations work.” If You...

May 23, 2025

The Pope Takes On AI: A New Church Strategy?

Pope Francis focused on controversies and proposed reforms within the church. Whereas Pope Leo seems...

May 23, 2025

DISCUSS: Peace & Prosperity or Freedom & Democracy?

The “Bush Doctrine” from President George W. Bush made as a priority for United States...

May 22, 2025

Entering the Post-Progressive Era

A UK political scientist argues that progressivism is over. This is not just a matter...

May 21, 2025

Empirical Evidence on Vocation

My review of a book on religion in the workplace, which includes a large-scale empirical...

May 20, 2025

The Whirlwind

I grew up in Oklahoma, the tornado capital of the world, so I had seen...

May 19, 2025

Monday Miscellany, 5/19/25

War as video game. North Korea's remote worker scam. And the more powerful AI gets,...

May 16, 2025

Weird Science & the New Social Imaginary

Some scientists claim to have found evidence for the two wildest theories being proposed to...