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April 21, 2025

Monday Miscellany, 4/21/25

The Pope has died. Illinois Bill Would Restrict Homeschooling. And Poland's Per Capita Economy to Surpass...

April 11, 2025

DISCUSS: Move Fast and Break Things?

Do you think Mark Zuckerberg's maxim of "move fast and break things" is a good...

March 2025

March 25, 2025

“Abundance Liberalism”

Two journalists, Ezra Klein and Derek Thompson, are proposing a new kind of liberalism. Their book...

March 24, 2025

Monday Miscellany, 3/24/25

We really are getting stupider. American doctors are finally waking up to gender dysphoria. And...

March 21, 2025

DISCUSS: Church Attendance & Online Worship

Should viewing an online service "count" as having attended church, for the purpose of either...

March 10, 2025

Monday Miscellany, 3/10/25

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

March 04, 2025

How an LCMS Tech Titan Lost His Faith & Is Getting It Back

[A free post.] Larry Sanger, the co-founder of Wikipedia, grew up in the Lutheran Church...

February 2025

February 26, 2025

Vocation and Outreach

One outreach theme that resonates powerfully with today's secularists is the doctrine of vocation. The...

February 24, 2025

Monday Miscellany, 2/24/25

In UK, the young are more religious than their parents or grandparents. The USA is back...

February 07, 2025

DISCUSS: Trump and the Billionaires

Do we need to be concerned about the tech billionaires prominently displayed with the best...

February 03, 2025

Monday Miscellany, 2/3/25

Despite Stargate, China pulls ahead in the AI race. An executive order against transexual treatments for...

January 2025

January 28, 2025

Unable to Write, Unable to Type

Much of Generation Z--that is, teenagers and twenty-somethings--cannot express themselves with handwriting. Instead, they use...

January 27, 2025

Monday Miscellany, 1/27/25

Trump's "shock and awe." The breakdown of conservative, liberal, or moderate. The woes of cable...

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 14, 2025

The Anti-Social Society

In today's culture, doing things with other people has become rarer and rarer. People are...

January 03, 2025

DISCUSS: Do We Favor Mediocrity over Excellence?

Is Vivek Ramaswamy right, that Americans today prefer mediocrity over excellence?

January 02, 2025

What We’ll Have to Face in 2026

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

December 2024

December 27, 2024

Words of the Year 2024

English Dictionaries have the custom of proclaiming a "word of the year," new words or...

December 09, 2024

Monday Miscellany, 12/9/24

Our national debt in light years. Google's woes. And Bible sales are up 22%.

December 02, 2024

Monday Miscellany, 12/2/24

The unintended consequences of deportation. A 40-cent bitcoin is now worth nearly $100,000. And Australia...

November 2024

November 04, 2024

Monday Miscellany, 11/4/24

Medical AI is hallucinating; a salient question on transgenderism in sports; and a bunch more...

October 2024

October 29, 2024

The New Theists

Ross Douthat, writing for the New York Times, thinks religion may be on the verge...

October 25, 2024

Must Reads, 10/25/24

Beginning an occasional feature highlighting articles and posts worth reading: The third wave of dog...

October 21, 2024

Monday Miscellany, 10/21/24

FBI's revised 2022 stats show violent crime was up, not down as reported; "one of...

October 15, 2024

Garbage Time

The metaphor of "garbage time"--when the game is basically over, but you have to play...

October 14, 2024

Columbus/Indigenous People’s Day Miscellany, 10/14/24

The rest of the story about the jobs numbers. What happened to the government's "internet...

October 10, 2024

A Solution to Disinformation

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

September 2024

September 30, 2024

Monday Miscellany, 9/30/24

Politicians (and voters) vs. economists; communal kitchens; and how about augmented reality?

September 23, 2024

Monday Miscellany, 9/23/24

"We're going to have supervision"; snowflakes in the workplace; and church buildings going traditional.

September 16, 2024

Monday Miscellany, 9/16/24

Welfare and our fiscal woes; the problem with Ranked-Choice voting; and Artificial Intelligence providing both...