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October 2026

October 12, 2026

Monday Miscellany, 10/12/26

The revolt of the French adolescents. AI's legal liability. And a victory for "de-transitioners."

August 2026

August 21, 2026

Back to School with AI

A news story quoting university students talking about the use of AI in their high...

August 18, 2026

God’s Consolation of Job in the Whirlwind

When God appears in a whirlwind to Job, this is not just God's smackdown of...

August 10, 2026

Monday Miscellany, 8/10/26

Marijuana passes alcohol and cigarettes in daily use. Changing the voting age to 16. Pell...

August 06, 2026

Liquidating Sociology

Sociology has gone all in on woke ideology, abandoning objectivity and the pursuit of knowledge...

July 2026

July 15, 2026

Post-literacy

Illiteracy is being unable to read. Aliteracy is being able to read but not reading. ...

July 09, 2026

AI + Population Collapse = The World as a Small Town

I have been critical of the AI revolution, but economist Tyler Cowen offers a more...

June 2026

June 25, 2026

A Defense of Teaching Students What to Think

We often hear educators saying, "We don't teach students what to think; we teach them...

June 18, 2026

Woke Therapy

Psychotherapist Jonathan Alpert discusses a trend in his profession: Approaching patients' psychological problems by applying...

May 2026

May 18, 2026

Monday Miscellany, 5/18/26

New federal regulation could devastate religious colleges & seminaries. A lawsuit against Big Weed for...

April 2026

April 29, 2026

AI Detectors

As AI-generated content proliferates, from homework assignments to professional publications, another technology has emerged: AI...

April 28, 2026

Lost Civilization

Much of our civilization--our ways of thinking, our art, our literature, our political order--has been...

April 20, 2026

Monday Miscellany, 4/20/26

Evidence young men really are returning to church. Why public school boards are so liberal. And...

April 08, 2026

A Book on Education in Luther’s Wittenberg

FREE POST: Right by St. Mary's Church, "the Mother Church of the Reformation," is the...

March 2026

March 23, 2026

Monday Miscellany, 3/23/26

Zero new jobs, for the first time in history. Black Americans vs. white progressives. And...

March 16, 2026

Monday Miscellany, 3/16/26

The biggest oil crisis since the 1970's. Public school corruption watch. And teenagers make $1...

March 03, 2026

The Philosophical Basis of Woke Academia

[A free post.] Lutheran apologist Jordan B. Cooper has written a terrific book on modern philosophy,...

February 2026

February 25, 2026

Has Religion Become an “Elite Marker”?

The well-known social scientist Joel Kotkin has uncovered some surprising details about the purported upsurge...

February 20, 2026

The Tempations of a Christian University

The university was essentially invented by the church. And yet today Christian universities have a...

February 17, 2026

On the Claim That Shakespeare Was a Black Woman

A book is coming out arguing that William Shakespeare was really a black woman. Why...

February 06, 2026

Architectonic Labor

The doctrine of vocation took a hit with the industrial revolution, as human craftsmen found...

February 05, 2026

You Don’t Have to Be an Academic to Be an Intellectual

John Ehrett argues that you don't have to be a college professor to be an...

January 2026

January 22, 2026

Rise of the Post-Secular

A discussion of the return of religion in Sweden, the once-Lutheran bastion that became perhaps the...

January 21, 2026

The Collapse of the West?

Just as communism, the political and economic system that governed much of the world, suddenly...

January 19, 2026

Monday Miscellany, 1/19/26

Uprisings in Iran. Our tariffs are increasing production in China. And college students who can't...

January 15, 2026

Larry Sanger on the GASP Worldview

Larry Sanger, the co-founder of Wikipedia who recently became a Christian, complains about the bias...

January 02, 2026

What We’ll Have to Face in 2026

The beginning of the new year is a good time to look ahead and assess...

December 2025

December 25, 2025

My Christmas Presents to You, 2025

In celebration of the gift of our Savior, my custom at this blog is to...

December 16, 2025

What Changes in Pop Music Tell About Us

A study of pop music from 1973 to 2023 shows that, as time goes by,...

December 09, 2025

The More Technology Students Have, the Worse They Perform

Our schools' test scores are lower than ever. The problem isn't just cell-phones or AI....