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September 2026

September 11, 2026

How the Meta Settlement Will Change Social Media

Facing $1.7 trillion in lawsuits, Meta has agreed to a settlement, giving the states $17...

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...

April 2026

April 28, 2026

Lost Civilization

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

April 27, 2026

Monday Miscellany, 4/27/26

Another assassination attempt against the president. Preventing fellow-citizens from being represented. And UK outlaws tobacco...

December 2025

December 15, 2025

Monday Miscellany, 12/15/25

The end of the metaverse. The font wars. And science shoots down medical marijuana claims.

December 05, 2025

Advanced Technology Makes Us More Primitive

When we think of our advanced information technology, we immediately marvel at how advanced our...

November 2025

November 17, 2025

Monday Miscellany, 11/17/25

Mainline Methodists try unity by division. BBC heads resign over bias. And Bible reading is up--belief...

April 2025

April 29, 2025

Learning from a Communist

The Italian communist Antonio Gramsci said that "politics is downstream of culture," so that the...

April 07, 2025

Monday Miscellany, 4/7/25

Upending the economy. The Marxist comic book. And how to thwart a black mass.

March 2025

March 10, 2025

Monday Miscellany, 3/10/25

OpenAI hallucinates 37% of the time. The Washington Post is changing its tune. And giving...

January 2025

January 20, 2025

Inauguration Day Miscellany, 1/20/25

Giving Trump credit for the ceasefire in Gaza. Sexual discrimination vs. gender identity discrimination. And...

January 15, 2025

Trump’s Impact on Popular Culture

Donald Trump's political victory seems to be accompanied by a larger "vibe shift" in American...

December 2024

December 26, 2024

Year in Review 2024

Looking back on the news, religion, and media of 2024.

December 16, 2024

Monday Miscellany, 12/16/24

Bad times for dictators. Hallucinating the news. And the UK completely bans puberty blockers for...

November 2024

November 18, 2024

Monday Miscellany, 11/18/24

What did NOT influence the election; the most pro-Trump racial group; and Catholics elected Trump.

October 2024

October 10, 2024

A Solution to Disinformation

Today when truth is widely seen as a "construction," information (facts), misinformation (incorrect facts), and...

June 2024

June 14, 2024

Ayaan Hirsi Ali on the Stages of Subversion

Aayan Hirsi Ali draws on the work of a KGB defector who testified about Soviet...

June 14, 2024

DISCUSS: Double Life

Nearly half of Generation Z and over a quarter of internet users as a whole...

May 2024

May 14, 2024

How “The Lutheran Hour” Countered the “Religious Depression”

A new book shows how the Catholic priest Fulton J. Sheen and the Lutheran pastor...

April 2024

April 29, 2024

Monday Miscellany, 4/29/24

Major medical report repudiates transgendering children. Not hiring someone with a criminal record is racist?...

March 2024

March 08, 2024

The Man Who Predicted Our Technology and Its Impact

Sixty years ago, thirty years before the worldwide web, Marshall McLuhan not only anticipated the...

February 2024

February 07, 2024

A Different Take on the State of Evangelicalism

The distinguished religion journalist Richard Ostling offers a different take on the state of evangelicalism...

December 2023

December 15, 2023

DISCUSSION: Who Would Be Your Pick for Person of the Year?

Time Magazine picked Taylor Swift as Person of the Year. Who would be your pick?

December 04, 2023

Monday Miscellany, 12/4/23

The word of the year, the end of Popular Science, and the Transgender Day of...

November 2023

November 10, 2023

Breaking Through the “Front Lines of Human Thought”

The president of China, Xi Jinping has some rather remarkable things to say about what...

November 09, 2023

The End of Being Informed

An increasing number of Americans just don't care about the news anymore. This bodes ill...

November 07, 2023

Beware of Definitive Answers from ChatGPT

I have found that when ChatGPT doesn't have access to the sources it needs to...

October 2023

October 30, 2023

Monday Miscellany, 10/30/23

The Gaza hospital hoax, the terrorist drug, and Silicon Valley is giving up on news.

August 2023

August 28, 2023

Monday Miscellany, 8/28/23

Conservatives' pop culture moment, the courts keep supporting religious liberty, and Republican big spenders.

August 10, 2023

Meritocracy? What Meritocracy?

David Brooks takes to task his fellow Ivy League-educated professionals who have formed a new...