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March 2021

March 23, 2021

Exporting America’s New Ideology

Time was, American ideas that were exported around the world had to do with freedom...

March 22, 2021

Criticizing vs. Cancelling

Some on the left are saying that "cancel culture" doesn't really exist, that it's nothing...

March 18, 2021

The Differences between Progressives and Conservatives

Progressives look at problems in terms of systems and equality, whereas Conservatives stress personal responsibility...

March 11, 2021

Where the Left and the Right Agree

In our time of political and cultural polarization, we should reflect on some current and...

March 09, 2021

Where Relativism Survives

Moral relativism has given way to a new absolutism, in which those who disagree with...

March 05, 2021

Foucault’s Philosophy of Power, Sex, and Death

Michel Foucault, a French philosopher who died from AIDS in 1984, is the most-cited scholar...

March 04, 2021

What to Do About the Backlash Against Evangelicals

When evangelicalism was popular, virtually all denominations tried to emulate it, resulting in a loss...

March 02, 2021

Why Evangelicals Are So Disliked, Part I

Christians today are hated not just for following Jesus--as He said they would be--but also...

March 01, 2021

Evangelicals as “the Other”

A prominent social scientist says that Evangelicals are so repugnant to the social elite that...

February 2021

February 23, 2021

The African Bonhoeffer

John Ehrett, seeing the problems with the dominant political theologies, sees a way forward in...

January 2021

January 27, 2021

The Ghosts of Abortion

Why is our society so dysfunctional? Why has our culture become so toxic? Perhaps because...

January 25, 2021

What Do the People Love?

In his inaugural address, Joe Biden quoted St. Augustine on how a people is "defined...

January 22, 2021

The Self-Destructive Triumph of Postmodernism

An ideology isn't triumphant when one side holds to it. An ideology is triumphant when...

January 21, 2021

The Prospects for Unity

One of President Biden's biggest priorities, he says, is uniting the country. What are the...

January 18, 2021

The Return of Liberal Christianity?

Some say the victory of political liberalism and the discrediting of evangelicalism may be accompanied...

January 12, 2021

Is Democracy Really in Danger?

We have been hearing about how the problems of 2020 and 2021 endanger democracy. Are...

December 2020

December 29, 2020

2020 as Existential Crisis

Nearly eight out of 10 Americans (77%) believe that 2020 has put the country into...

December 21, 2020

We Americans Don’t Trust Each Other

Social trust is the glue that holds society together. But Americans trust each other less...

December 16, 2020

One of the Most Conservative States Is the Hottest Marijuana Market

Oklahoma, where I grew up and where I live, is one of the most conservative...

December 10, 2020

How Blacks and Immigrants Will Help the Conservative Cause

Blacks, Hispanics, and other immigrants are more conservative and more religious, on the whole, than...

December 02, 2020

America’s Radical Moderation

America is a radically moderate nation. That means it will be frustrating for both liberals...

November 2020

November 30, 2020

The Scientist Who Calculates the End of America

A scientist has devised a mathematical formula for calculating when nations and civilizations fall apart. ...

November 26, 2020

Thanksgiving and the 1620 Project

It wasn't the Virginia slave ship in 1619 that defined American values, argues "The Federalist,"...

November 25, 2020

The Crises in the West and in Islam

The new spate of Islamic terrorism in France, due to more Charlie Hebdo cartoons, demonstrates...

November 20, 2020

The USA is 1/3 Religious, 1/3 Secularist, & 1/3 in between

When it comes to religion, the best way to describe the nation overall is that...

November 19, 2020

Jerusalem + Athens + Rome = Western Civilization (and we’re losing them all)

Western civilization derives from three cities: Jerusalem, which gave us morality, purpose, and religion; Athens,...

November 17, 2020

The Fatherless, Identity Politics, & Violent Protests

Mary Eberstadt argues that the lack of a father figure in young people's lives can...

November 16, 2020

Women’s Power

According to a Swedish study of Americans, both men and women agreed that men had...

November 10, 2020

A Civil War? An Internal Cold War?

The United States has become so polarized--as evidenced in our recent election--that some observers from...

November 06, 2020

Republicans Should Be Party of Working Families vs. the “Bigs”

Here is a way forward for the Republicans: be the party of working families and...