DR. JOHN COYNE: PREVENTING GENOCIDE IS MY WORLD WAR II
Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez made headlines when saying that the imperative of addressing climate change is “our World War II,” adding that the world is in big trouble within 12 years…...
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DR. GARY S. SMITH: THROWING THE FIRST PITCH
Editor’s note: This article first appeared at Claremont Review of Books. In The Presidents and the Pastime: The History of Baseball and the White House former presidential speech writer, veteran…...
Monday, March 25, 2019
HOPE SPRINGS ETERANL: FORTY YEARS OF EGYPTIAN-ISRAELI PEACE
March 26, 2019 marks the 40th anniversary of the Egyptian-Israeli Peace Treaty. Historians consider the Egyptian-Israeli peace brokered by President Jimmy Carter in the late 1970s to be the most…...
Wednesday, March 20, 2019
DR. DANIEL SPANJER: AMERICA - EXCEPTIONAL, NOT NATIONALIST
Some of the liberal criticism of President Donald Trump since his election stems from an intellectual tradition that gained tremendous influence in the West during the 1960s, especially in American…...
Wednesday, February 20, 2019
DR. PAUL KENGOR: ON TRUMP, DEMOCRATS, AND SOCIALISM
I published a piece recently on the reaction to President Trump’s condemnation of socialism in his State of the Union. He said something indisputably factual and indubitably obvious to most…...
Wednesday, February 13, 2019
DR. JOSEPH HORTON: WHEN EVERYBODY PLAYS, WE ALL WIN!
The most joy-filled people I saw during the Super Bowl were in a Microsoft commercial titled When Everybody Plays We All Win. We were introduced to six kids who love…...
Monday, February 11, 2019
DR. MARK HENDRICKSON: THE FOLLY OF MINIMUM WAGE LAWS
Pennsylvania Governor Tom Wolf has proposed raising the legal minimum wage to $12 per hour on July 1, 2019, and then an additional 50 cents per year until the minimum…...
Thursday, February 07, 2019
DR. GARY S. SMITH: OUR LIFE’S WORK: REFLECTION ON THE SUPER BOWL
The Super Bowl is over, and life moves on. This year’s New England Patriots’ 13-3 low-scoring victory over the Los Angeles Rams has generally been bemoaned as lackluster, listless, and…...
Monday, February 04, 2019
DR. GARY WELTON: EUGENICS IS ALIVE AND FLOURIGHING IN MODERN AMERICA
The modern eugenics movement is attributed to Sir Francis Galton (1822-1911), a half-cousin of Charles Darwin. Perhaps better known as the Father of Psychological Testing, Galton argued that the human…...
Wednesday, January 23, 2019
DR. PAUL KENGOR: MARCHING FOR LIFE - COUNTERING ROE V. WADE’S ESCORTS
Editor’s note: This article first appeared at The American Spectator. I saw them again a few weeks ago, the first time in a while. My wife and I were driving…...
Wednesday, December 19, 2018
DR. PAUL KENGOR: GEORGE H.W. BUSH AND THE CALL THAT SURRENDERED THE SOVIET UNION
Editor’s note: This article first appeared at the Pittsburgh Tribune-Review. Numerous tributes to George H. W. Bush this week hailed his crucial role in helping to peacefully close the Cold…...
Thursday, December 13, 2018
RICHARD D. KOCUR: HEALTHCARE SPENDING AND THE NATIONAL DEBT
In a recent article titled “Spending More on Debt than Defense,” author Mark Hendrickson highlights the interest payments on our rapidly growing national debt in relation to defense spending. By…...
Tuesday, December 11, 2018
DR PAUL KENGOR: GEORGE H. W. BUSH AND THE CALL THAT SURRENDERED THE SOVIET UNION
Editor’s note: This article first appeared at the Pittsburgh Tribune-Review. Numerous tributes to George H. W. Bush this week hailed his crucial role in helping to peacefully close the Cold…...
Thursday, December 06, 2018
DR. PAUL KENGOR: GEORGE H.W. BUSH’S FINAL WORDS
The final words of President George H. W. Bush tell us a lot about the kind of man he was, and especially the kind of father he was. At 94…...
Friday, November 30, 2018
DR. PAUL KENGOR: TEACHING GOD AT THANKSGIVING
Every year at Thanksgiving I trek into Barnes & Noble for an annual ritual of self-mortification. I go to the children’s section and glimpse the offerings for Thanksgiving. It never…...
Thursday, November 15, 2018
GABRIELLE ETZEL: HOLIDAYS AND POLITICS - REBUILDING CIVILITY
With the chill in the air and the leaves already falling, the holidays are just around the corner. Whether you’re hosting or being hosted, the old rule of not discussing…...
Friday, November 02, 2018
DR. MARK HENDRICKSON: THE PLITICS OF E15
On October 9, President Donald Trump announced that he was lifting the EPA’s ban on summertime sales of E15—a motor fuel blend consisting of 15% ethanol instead of the usual…...
Thursday, November 01, 2018
DR. PAUL KENGOR: DEATH AT THE TREE OF LIFE SYNAGOGUE
Editor’s note: This article first appeared at The American Spectator. “Pray for us, I will call you later.” That was the text message we received from our 16-year-old daughter at…...
Tuesday, October 16, 2018
LEE S. WISHING: MUD-PIE JOY AND THE COLLEGE DECISION
Joy, real meaningful joy, should be the most important consideration when choosing a college. What about getting a good job? Don't worry, rewarding employment will follow the pursuit of divine…...
Tuesday, October 09, 2018
DR. CARL TRUEMAN: THE NEW GULAGS
Editor’s note: This article first appeared at First Things. As a new teacher at Grove City College, I thought it appropriate to start my upper-level humanities course by informing…...
Wednesday, October 03, 2018
DR. AMERICA’S RELIGION OF HEDONISM
While visiting a breathtaking butterfly exhibit in the south, we saw two large rare butterflies, apparently mating. The interpreter, however, indicated that at this stage of their late adult lives,…...
Tuesday, September 25, 2018
RACHEL BOVARD: REQUIEM FOR THE PRO-LIFE MOVEMENT
Editor’s note: This article first appeared at American Greatness. Is the pro-life movement on Capitol Hill dead? If it is, it’s congressional Republicans who have killed it. Funding for the…...
Wednesday, September 19, 2018
DR. JORDAN B. PETERSON: A SIGN OF THE END TIMES?
Editor’s note: This article first appeared at WhiteHorseInn.org. It is not often that a clinical psychologist becomes the cultural equivalent of a rock star, but Canadian academic Jordan B. Peterson…...
Tuesday, September 18, 2018
DR. JUSTIN DEPLATO AND MATTHEW MARKULIN: IMPEACHMENT OF THE PRESIDENT?
Impeachment was in the news recently after President Donald Trump’s personal attorney, Michael Cohen, pleaded guilty to campaign finance violations. In his plea, Cohen implicated Trump, stating that he, as…...
Thursday, September 13, 2018
DR. CALEB VERBOIS: A LOT LESS BLUSTER AND A LITTLE MORE SASSE
Predictably, the start of Brett Kavanaugh’s confirmation hearing to the Supreme Court was an embarrassing fiasco for almost everyone involved. The Republican chair of the Judiciary Committee, Senator Chuck Grassley,…...
Tuesday, September 11, 2018
ADAM V. NOWLAND: BRETT KAVANAUGH RUNS THE GAUNTLET
Between September 4 and 7, 2018, Brett Kavanaugh, President Trump’s nominee to the Supreme Court of the United States, will face a barrage of questioning before the Senate. Kavanaugh is…...
Thursday, August 23, 2018
DR. EARL TILFORD: THE UNWARRANTED STORM OVER SECURITY CLEARANCES
“The great thing is to get the true picture, whatever it is.” —Winston Churchill, 1940 There would be no current storm over security clearances if all such access ended…...
Tuesday, August 21, 2018
DR. MARK HENDRICKSON: THE LATEST ON THE TRUMP TARIFF STRATEGY
When I commented in March about President Donald Trump’s plan to impose tariffs on imported steel, I was hoping that he would back off from imposing tariffs on our allies.…...
Wednesday, August 01, 2018
“WON’T YOU BE MY NEIGHBOR?” A REVIEW OF THE DOCUMENTARY
Full disclosure: I have never seen an episode of the long-running PBS children’s show called “Mr. Rogers’ Neighborhood.” The only reason I went to see “Won’t You Be My Neighbor?,”…...
Wednesday, July 25, 2018
DR. GARY S. SMITH: THE POWER OF WATER
They danced. They sang. They shouted and cried for joy. Had their team won the Super Bowl or the Stanley Cup? Had they won a giant Powerball lottery? No, but…...
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