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July 2020

July 01, 2020

Overturning Taboos & Replacing Them with New Ones

Traditional taboos are being cast down, but they are being replaced by new ones. A...

June 2020

June 30, 2020

A Second American Revolution?

The Canadian social scientist Eric Kaufman discusses the prospect of a "Second American Revolution," as...

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 12, 2020

Dog People, Cat People, and Religious People

A study of pet ownership has found that religious people are just as likely to...

June 11, 2020

The Coming Neo-Feudalism

The post-liberal order is shaping up to be neo-feudalism: The role of the church is...

May 2020

May 29, 2020

The Lockdown Is Helping Relationships

Yes, the coronavirus lockdown has been terrible. But a study has found that, on the...

May 08, 2020

Reversing Religious Decline

Religion waxes and wanes in a culture and throughout history. It can fade away, but...

May 07, 2020

Church Decline Isn’t Reversed by Contemporary Music & Worship Styles

According to the new American Enterprise study of American religion, the decline in church membership and...

May 06, 2020

Causes of Secularization, such as Too Much Religious Power

The American Enterprise Institute study of American religion finds reasons why societies become less religious....

May 05, 2020

A Major Study of American Religion, with Surprises

The American Enterprise Institute has released an important study of American religion. It finds that...

March 2020

March 12, 2020

Good News and Bad News on the Family

The divorce rate has dropped dramatically since its high point in the 1980s and, particularly,...

March 06, 2020

Anti-Americanism among Americans

Many Americans, especially those fresh out of school, really don't like America. Joy Pullman documents...

March 02, 2020

An Actual Millennial Responds to Church Efforts to Attract Millennials

A millennial responds to a church growth consultant who is urging churches to become even...

February 2020

February 28, 2020

Why the West Lost Its Nerve

Some in the West are under the impression that Nazism comes from believing ANYTHING too...

February 19, 2020

Have the “Nones” Stopped Growing?

The number of "Nones," those who claim no religious affiliation, has been going up dramatically,...

February 05, 2020

Evangelicals’ Birth Rate Is Now Nearly as Low as That of Secularists

Evangelicals used to have significantly more children than secularist families. This is no longer the...

January 2020

January 24, 2020

Dying of Whiteness

The medical journal Lancet has published a positive review of a book that associates the...

January 13, 2020

The Managerial Elite

Our new class system is not based on the socio-economic hierarchies of upper, middle, and...

January 10, 2020

Millennials Are Staying in Church if They Went as Children–Unless They Marry Outside the Faith

Millennials are increasingly leaving the church and, unlike other generations, they are not coming back...

December 2019

December 18, 2019

U.S. Leads the World in Single Parenthood

The United States has the world's highest rates of children who live with only one...

December 02, 2019

Why Some People Don’t Like Evangelicals

Research from Barna on the general public's perception of evangelicals shows that 25% of Americans...

November 2019

November 25, 2019

Home Alone

Americans increasingly have stopped going out, choosing to just stay home, preferably by themselves. This...

November 19, 2019

Why Soaking the Rich Will Give Them Even More Power

Democrats hope to pay for the new social programs they are proposing by increasing taxes...

November 06, 2019

Two Incompatible & Mutually Hostile Worldviews

Another study of America's political polarization sees the divide in terms of a concept often...

October 2019

October 29, 2019

The Politics of Feelings

Americans are extremely polarized politically. But this is not just a matter of ideology. Advocates...

October 28, 2019

Revising the Bill of Rights

A majority of Americans (51%) want to revise the Bill of Right's guarantee of Freedom...

September 2019

September 19, 2019

How the Government Can Constitutionally Support Religion

We have been blogging about debates among conservative Christians and political conservatives over the best...

September 11, 2019

Rejection of All Affiliation, All Authority

As we keep hearing, Millennials don't affiliate with a church as much as other generations...

September 04, 2019

From Population Explosion to Population Collapse

Fifty years ago, people were in a panic about the prospects of a population...

August 2019

August 22, 2019

Luxury Beliefs

Beliefs have become the new status symbol. You don't have to act on those beliefs...