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October 2020

October 21, 2020

Something Americans Can Agree On: Hating Modern Architecture

Americans are highly diverse and politically polarized. But they come to a remarkable consensus across...

October 16, 2020

Deciding How to Vote #2: The Voter

Voters can have motivations that have little to do with the qualities of the particular...

October 15, 2020

Deciding How to Vote #1: The Candidate

In deciding whom to vote for, we consider a candidate's beliefs, policies, personal qualities, and...

October 05, 2020

In the Communist Bible Translation, Jesus Stones the Woman

In the new Chinese Communist translation of the Bible, Jesus kills the woman taken in...

September 2020

September 29, 2020

How the Constitution Resolves a Chaotic Election

Even if everything goes right, this may be a chaotic election day. But both sides...

September 28, 2020

How Court Packing Could End Constitutional Government

If the Senate gets into the habit of packing the Supreme Court, our Constitutional government--with...

September 23, 2020

Becoming a Christian Dissident against Soft Totalitarianism

A new book by Rod Dreher sees the emergence of a "soft totalitarianism" and draws...

September 21, 2020

The Supreme Court Vacancy & the Pro-Life Cause

The death of Supreme Court justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg has poured gasoline on an already...

September 15, 2020

Luther on Why Belief May Not Be Coerced

In a time when the church freely used coercion and punishment to enforce its teachings,...

September 14, 2020

Donald Trump and the Nobel Peace Prize

It seems incredible that someone as belligerent as Donald Trump has been nominated for the...

September 11, 2020

Trump, the Military, & Our Motives for Voting

Which should be the major motivation for our votes, the candidate's personal qualities or the...

September 10, 2020

The Futility of Coercing or Punishing Belief

Historically, some religions and governments have tried to compel people to hold a certain belief...

August 2020

August 27, 2020

Protestant Integralism

Integralism is a Catholic political theory in which the church--through the Pope and the Emperor--exercises...

August 24, 2020

How Trump Gave Us a Kinder, Gentler Republican Party

Donald Trump is not kind or gentle. Far from it. But his legacy is a...

August 21, 2020

Media Worry about Losing Their “Antagonist”

Despite problems in the news industry, the "New York Times," the "Washington Post," CNN, and...

August 19, 2020

The Purpose of Conservatism

There are many contending versions of "conservatism." In an article saying that today's conservatives should...

August 18, 2020

Biden for Prime Minister

Presidents usually lead their parties and take them in the direction they want them to...

August 17, 2020

The Election and the National Mood

As in the election of Warren G. Harding in 1920, exactly one hundred years ago,...

August 14, 2020

Kuyper and Christian Democracy

Abraham Kuyper, with his worldview analysis, gave us Francis Schaeffer, who arguably gave us the...

August 11, 2020

Will You Be Voting for Russia or China?

Russia will be interfering in the American election to elect Trump, according to U.S. intelligence,...

August 07, 2020

Why the Murder Rate Is Soaring

The murder rate is up 24% so far this year, with 3,612 killings. And yet,...

August 06, 2020

Conservative Theologically, but Liberal Politically

In the United States, if you are conservative theologically, you will tend to be conservative...

August 04, 2020

The Lutheran Way of Resistance & the American Revolution

Though Lutherans are accused of submitting uncritically to government authorities, the Magdeburg Confession spells out...

July 2020

July 30, 2020

Big Corporations vs. Capitalism

Congress is investigating Google, Apple, Facebook, and Amazon for possible antitrust violations. Pro-business Republicans and...

July 28, 2020

President Kanye West & the Million Dollar Baby

Kanye West is running for president. His proposal to pay women $1 million for every...

July 21, 2020

Dispatch from Indian Territory

Here in Oklahoma, we woke up a couple of weeks ago to learn that, according...

July 06, 2020

Why a “Conservative” Supreme Court Will Issue Liberal Rulings

Conservative legal theory will mean that a conservative court will sometimes make liberal rulings. A...

June 2020

June 29, 2020

Should We Change America’s Name? What Else Should Go?

When members of a culture turn against that culture--repudiating its symbols, values, and heritage--the culture...

June 23, 2020

The Left Discovers the Second Amendment

The right to keep and bear arms is usually thought of as a conservative issue....

June 17, 2020

On Disbanding the Police

The revulsion against police brutality against black people has led to serious calls to eliminate...