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September 2025

September 22, 2025

How Sin Destroys Freedom

For many of us, freedom above all means the liberty to sin. But, according to...

May 2025

May 30, 2025

DISCUSS: Do You Feel Free?

Do you feel free? Are you satisfied with your personal freedom? Why do you think...

March 2025

March 19, 2025

There Is More to Freedom Than You Realize

Everyone wants to be free, but they mean different things by it. Brad Littlejohn explores...

September 2024

September 10, 2024

“Freedom” vs. “Liberty”

Synonyms are two words that have the same meaning. They are often used interchangeably. And...

September 06, 2024

No Freedom without Government?

According to conventional conservative wisdom, big government is a threat to freedom, while small government...

October 2023

October 02, 2023

Monday Miscellany, 10/2/23

Americans who don't believe in freedom; sacking Philadelphia; and the "persuadables" who may turn the...

November 2022

November 29, 2022

On China’s COVID Protests

Despite China's harsh controls over its citizens and its draconian "no COVID" lockdowns, unprecedented protests...

July 2022

July 29, 2022

“Gotta Serve Somebody”

Thaddeus Williams tells of discovering Nietzsche and his ideal of personal autonomy as a teenager....

April 2022

April 21, 2022

Post-Liberals vs. Right-Liberals

In the current debates within the conservative movement, the "post-liberals" criticize Reagan-style free market and...

January 2022

January 04, 2022

Revising the First and Second Amendments

A proposal to revise the Bill of Rights, including eliminating guns from the Second Amendment...

December 2021

December 08, 2021

Legalism vs. Freedom vs. Lawlessness

On one side is legalism. On the other extreme is lawlessness. The Gospel, though, gives...

November 2021

November 24, 2021

The Consequences of Plagues and Pandemics (part 2)

The Black Plague of the 14th century contributed to the rise of economic and political...

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...

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....

June 23, 2021

“Even North Korea Isn’t This Nuts”

Yeonmi Park escaped from the crushing oppression of North Korea, only to find the same...

March 2021

March 18, 2021

The Differences between Progressives and Conservatives

Progressives look at problems in terms of systems and equality, whereas Conservatives stress personal responsibility...

February 2021

February 05, 2021

The Four Kinds of Freedom

"Freedom" is something we Americans value above all else, practically. But what does it mean? ...

September 2020

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,...

June 2020

June 15, 2020

Spiraling out of Control/Spiraling into Control

According to a recent poll, 80% of Americans believe that the country is "spiraling out...

February 2020

February 10, 2020

The Political Effects of the Coronavirus

China's handling of the coronavirus epidemic--first covering it up and then locking down its citizens--has...

October 2019

October 18, 2019

The Totalitarian Impulse

Totalitarianism is the belief that the government should control the totality of human life. Communists...

January 2019

January 25, 2019

Tyrannical Souls

Politics reflects the culture, we are told, and this is certainly true. But, more profoundly,...

April 2018

April 06, 2018

China’s High-Tech Plan to Control Its Citizens Completely

It is now technologically possible for a government to monitor and control its citizens as...

March 2018

March 15, 2018

Has Liberal Democracy Failed?

The conservative thinker Patrick Deneen has published a book entitled Why Liberalism Failed. He's not...

April 2017

April 07, 2017

Martin Luther as inventor of freedom

Lutherans aren't the only ones celebrating the 500th anniversary of Luther's posting of the 95...

January 2017

January 26, 2017

A world without property, privacy, freedom, or problems

Danish politician Ida Auken has written a provocative essay entitled Welcome to 2030. I own nothing,...

October 2016

October 05, 2016

U.S. no longer makes the “free country” top 10 list

The United States is no longer in the top 10 of the world's most free...

September 2016

September 23, 2016

All Americans are Whigs

Lutheran political scientist James R. Rogers explains things like gay marriage and transgender bathrooms--and the...

April 2016

April 15, 2016

Happiness vs. Freedom?

In a description of his new book, The Intolerable God, author Christopher J. Insole tells...

November 2015

November 17, 2015

Freedom and the new comment system

Thanks, everybody, for trying out the new World Table comment system. I can relate to...