DR. GARY WELTON: IS ANYONE LISTENING TO MY FEEDBACK?
We are inundated with requests for our feedback. Your Walmart receipt asks, “Give Us Feedback.” Your Dunkin receipt offers you a “free classic donut” for your feedback. The requests are…...
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Thursday, August 14, 2025
DR. JASON R. EDWARDS: CHILDREN - NOT MERE CREATURES OF THE STATE
The dog days of summer are not typically associated with school, but the summer of 2025 has marked the hundredth anniversary of two pivotal events in the history of American…...
Tuesday, July 22, 2025
DR. JASON R. EDWARDS: INHERITING THE WIND
One hundred years ago this month, the United States and even the world turned its attention to Dayton, Tennessee, to witness a trial purported to be a showdown between modern…...
Friday, May 23, 2025
DR. JAMES THRASHER: MEMORIAL DAY - NOT THANKFUL ENOUGH
I had to go to show my respect. I felt compelled to watch the motorcade escort this warrior to his true and final resting place. Glenn Herbert Hodak, U.S. Army…...
Thursday, April 03, 2025
JAMES THRASHER: NCAA’s NIL POLICY - NO INTEGRITY LEFT
$4.8 million is the NIL (Name, Image, and Likeness) valuation of Cooper Flagg, a freshman Duke basketball player. How is that even possible? In essence, Duke was able to buy…...
Friday, August 30, 2024
JOHN A. SPARKS: BIDEN’S 18-YEAR TERM LIMIT FOR SCOTUS: ILL-CONCEIVED AND UNNECESSARY
President Joe Biden, displeased by recent Supreme Court decisions, is proposing several changes to the court. This vexation with the court is reminiscent of Erwin Chemerinsky, Dean of the University…...
Monday, May 27, 2024
DR. JAN DUDT: IS AI DEVELOPING WITHOUT CHRISTIAN INPUT?
It seems we are being deluged by one cultural challenge after another. One of the most significant trends that will impact our lives for better or worse, well into the…...
Thursday, May 16, 2024
DR. BRIAN DELLINGER: TECH, TALK, TIKTOK
In August 2020, President Donald Trump declared a national emergency with an unlikely cause: the video-sharing app TikTok. At issue was TikTok’s parent company, ByteDance, and its close connections with…...
Friday, May 03, 2024
DR. GARY WELTON: PROTECTING OUR GRANDCHILDREN - OR NOT
We spend our middle adult years protecting our children. Indeed, parenting represents the most expensive and difficult responsibility of our lives. We baby-proof our houses. We warn them about the…...
Thursday, February 22, 2024
DR. JAMES THRASHER: GEN Z - WHAT’S A PAPER ROUTE?Are the days of a strong work ethic in America gone
Mike Rowe, the Dirty Jobs star and host of How America Works, has recently unloaded on Gen Z. Rowe said that the importance of hard work is on the way…...
Friday, February 16, 2024
RESTORE TRUST IN HIGHER EDUCATION: REMEMBERING ROSS FOSTER
Ivy League alumni and donors are disgusted and demanding change. They have had enough. The good news is that there is a way forward and it’s buried in a bit of…...
Friday, February 09, 2024
DR. JOSEPH HORTON: DEDICATION BEFORE CONSTRAINT FOR MARITAL SUCCESS
How times change. I once read that in the 1950s a professor at a major state university was fired when an interview in the student newspaper quoted him as saying…...
Wednesday, February 07, 2024
DR. RICHARD KOCUR: BUD LIGHT’S SUPER BOWL HAIL MARY
The Hail Mary pass. It’s a desperate, last-ditch attempt by a football team to score a touchdown in the waning seconds of the game. The pass usually comes from near…...
Wednesday, January 31, 2024
DR. LUKE CONWAY: CONFESSIONS OF A FORMER ENVIRONMENTALIST - WHY I GAVE UP ON “GREEN” POLICIES
I used to be an environmentalist. I once wrote that “scientists are right about climate change.” I long opposed logging clear-cuts and excessive drilling. I even voted for the…...
Thursday, January 18, 2024
DR. JOHN SPARKS: TIME TO THROW CHEVRON OVERBOARD
Suppose that you owned a manufacturing business for which the government prescribed certain production regulations, and suppose, further, that the government demanded that you provide office space for a federal…...
Monday, January 15, 2024
DR. GARY SCOTT SMITH: WHAT DID CAUSE THE CIVIL WAR?
Nikki Haley recently provoked a firestorm of controversy for failing to name slavery when asked by journalists what caused the Civil War. A chorus of critics, including President Joe Biden,…...
Thursday, December 28, 2023
GROVE CITY FOOTBALL: THE YTRANSFORMING POWER OF A VISION
Imagine being the new coach of one of the worst Division III football programs in the country. The program sat at zero wins and 20 losses after back-to-back winless seasons…...
Monday, November 27, 2023
LILIANA ZYLSTRA: INDI GREGORY - THIRD INFANT TO DIE AT HANDS OF UK GOVERNMENT
Good parents do everything in their power to protect their children. But what happens when the government takes that power away? Once again, the United Kingdom has given us the…...
Tuesday, November 14, 2023
DR. MARK W. HENDRICKSON: THE MY LAI MASSACRE CLAIMS ANOTHER VICTIM
On previous Veterans Days, I have remarked that the unseen scars borne by some of our veterans are more traumatic than visible scars. That tragic truth has an added poignancy…...
Tuesday, September 26, 2023
DR. RICHARD KOCUR: MAKING BIG PHARMA AN OFFER IT CAN’T RESIST
Editor’s note: This article first appeared in the The American Spectator. As part of the Inflation Reduction Act of 2022, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) gained the…...
Tuesday, September 12, 2023
DR. PAUL KENGOR: THIS SEPT. 11, LET’S ALSO REMEMBVER THE ABRAHAM ACCORDS
Editor’s note: This article first appeared in the National Catholic Register. For the last 22 years, Sept. 11 has become a somber day to memorialize the thousands of victims…...
Wednesday, August 23, 2023
JOHN A. SPARKS: REINING IN PUBLIC ACCOMMODATION LAWS
When Lorie Smith, owner of a Colorado website design business, thought about expanding her business to include websites for those planning traditional weddings (one man and one woman), she was…...
Wednesday, August 16, 2023
EDWARD TELLER: REMEMBERING THE OTHER FATHER OF THE BOMB
Editor’s note: This article first appeared at The American Spectator. Much is being said right now about J. Robert Oppenheimer, the father of the atomic bomb. The reason, of…...
Tuesday, August 15, 2023
LAWRENCE W. REED: ANDREW MELLON - HERO OF THE 1920S
Editor’s note: This article first appeared at The American Spectator. The following article is excerpted from a speech delivered by the author in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, for Grove City College’s Institute…...
Monday, August 14, 2023
THE DECLINE OF THE KING’S COLLEGE REFLECTS WESTERN CIVILIZATION DECAY
Earlier this month the King’s College in New York City announced it was canceling classes for the fall semester, laying off most of its faculty and staff, and struggling to…...
Wednesday, August 09, 2023
ROBERT A. RIDER: FROM SITTING ROOM TO WHITE HOUSE - 100 YEARS OF CALVIN COOLIDGE
On Aug. 2, 1923, President Warren Harding unexpectedly fell ill and died while visiting San Francisco. Five hours later, America had a new president: Calvin Coolidge, a man driven by…...
Thursday, August 03, 2023
DR. DAVID AYERS: IVF COMPANIES DEPEND ON ABORTION
Editor’s note: This article first appeared at The American Spectator. The Dobbs decision striking down Roe v. Wade has led to shrill outcries by providers of in vitro fertilization (IVF) and surrogacy. Both are lucrative, high-growth commercial industries…...
Thursday, July 27, 2023
DR. DAVID AYERS: ABORTION AND CONTRACEPTION EQUALS BIRTH DEARTH
The latest abysmally low birth rates from North America, Europe, and Asia continue to alarm business leaders and policy makers, as well they should. In Europe, only France is within…...
Wednesday, July 19, 2023
DR. MARK W. HENDRICKSON: HOTTEST DAY(S) EVER?
Undoubtedly you heard that several days in early July were the “hottest days ever” for good old Planet Earth. The source of that story was an entity called Climate Reanalyzer,…...
Tuesday, July 18, 2023
DR. JAMES THRASHER: IT’S NOT WORKING
As you reached for the alarm this morning what were your first thoughts? Did this endless work ritual conjure up depressing emotions causing you to bury your head in the…...
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