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January 2022

January 03, 2022

Anti-Vax Trump Supporters Turning Against Trump

Trump has become vocal in touting his administration's achievement in developing the vaccines and in...

December 2021

December 30, 2021

Awarding the Best Predictions for 2021

Reviewing the predictions made at the Cranach blog for what will happen in 2021. Previously,...

December 29, 2021

A Futurist’s Forecast for 2022

A futurist predicts 22 trends for 2022, many of which are paradoxes: our dependence on...

December 27, 2021

Looking Back While Driving Forward

Contrary to what Americans hoped for, 2021 did not bring about a "return to normalcy."...

December 21, 2021

How Liberal Protestantism Gave Us Roe vs. Wade

The supporters of the 1973 decision legalizing abortion say that religious considerations should not be...

December 16, 2021

Has China Overtaken–or Passed–the U.S.A.?

China is on the rise, while the United States is in decline. China is now...

December 14, 2021

No, Luther Isn’t to Blame for Subjectivism

Conservative cultural critics often blame Luther for modern subjectivism and exaltation of the self. A...

December 07, 2021

A Pearl Harbor Novel Shows History from the Inside

Today is the anniversary of the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor in 1941. I am...

December 01, 2021

“He refused to be called the son of Pharaoh’s daughter”

Moses was raised as the son of Pharaoh's daughter, but he repudiated his life of...

November 2021

November 30, 2021

When Evangelicals Were Considered Too Progressive

Evangelicals today are associated with right wing conservatives, but in the 19th century they were...

November 23, 2021

The Consequences of Plagues and Pandemics (part 1)

The Bubonic Plague, also known as the "Black Death," wiped out nearly half the population...

November 15, 2021

The Rule of Law

Reactions to recent court decisions indicate that many Americans have forgotten the importance of the...

November 10, 2021

My Book on Fascism Revisited

In 1993, I published "Modern Fascism," about the ideas that defined fascism and their revival...

November 05, 2021

Public Schools as the Means of Indoctrinating Children

Parents are insisting that public schools should not be centers for indoctrinating their children. But...

October 2021

October 29, 2021

The Four Distinctives of the Reformation

For Reformation Day, the four ways the Reformation differed from Catholicism and the myth of...

October 20, 2021

Vocation vs. Slavery

Historian Nadya Williams discusses the concept in ancient Rome of "otium," or leisure, as opposed...

October 18, 2021

Elitist Education vs. Classical Christian Education

Harvard professor James Hankins notes that classical education used to be associated with the elite....

October 01, 2021

China’s Revival of Communism

The Chinese government, having achieved prosperity by emulating Capitalism, has started cracking down on its...

September 2021

September 29, 2021

Lincoln on National “Suicide”

Abraham Lincoln said that no outside enemy could conquer the United States. If our nation...

September 23, 2021

Our Elective Monarchy

"Great Britain is a republic, with a hereditary president, while the United States is a...

September 22, 2021

Attaining Reconciliation

Delving more deeply into the concept of reconciliation and trying to think through how we...

August 2021

August 27, 2021

When the Government Told Churches What Language to Speak

One example of governments using the force of law to regulate the internal practices of...

August 16, 2021

Losing Another War

History is repeating itself as the Fall of Saigon is being replicated in the Fall...

August 13, 2021

A Religion That Tried Too Hard to Blend into the Culture

A historian writes about the attempt of some Buddhists in the Soviet Union to change...

August 12, 2021

A Post-Christian Version of a Christian Classic

In my opinion, informed by decades of literary study, one of the greatest stories in...

August 05, 2021

Prospects for a Renaissance

A Harvard history professor sees parallels between our cultural problems and those of the 14th...

July 2021

July 07, 2021

How Pride Causes Our Catastrophes

The Bible says that pride goeth before a fall. The Greeks said that pride causes...

July 02, 2021

An Unhappy Birthday for America

We are celebrating Independence Day in a time of national malaise, in which all sides...

July 01, 2021

Vocation and the Earl of Sandwich

The Earl of Sandwich was responsible both for your sandwich and for the soda that...

June 2021

June 24, 2021

Why Leftwing Regimes–from North Korea to American Academia–Don’t Allow Freedom

We should not be surprised when campuses suppress freedom of speech and other civil liberties....