A SCHOLAR AND A GENTLEMAN: REMEMBERING KEN STARR
I first met Ken Starr at the Department of Justice in 1990 while serving as the department’s assistant director of legal policy. A young lawyer only 10 years removed from…...
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Monday, September 05, 2022
DR. PAUL KENGOR: MIKHAIL GORBACHEV MEETS HIS MAKER
Editor’s note: This article first appeared at The American Spectator. When I heard about the death of Mikhail Gorbachev, I sighed. He was one of the final remaining pivotal…...
Friday, September 02, 2022
DR. LUKE CONWAY: TROUBLING NEW RESEARCH ON POLITICAL BIAS AND BIGOTTRY
Talk about a strange political year. African Americans and Jewish Americans are typically the two most reliable liberal voting blocks in the country, and yet there have been troubling news…...
Wednesday, August 31, 2022
LEWIS WAHA: FRIENDSHIP, NO WAR, IS THE ANTIDOTE TO NICENESS
Christians are known for being nice, or at least trying to be. But some reject niceness, saying it’s outmoded. They see a fool’s errand in trying to persuade a culture…...
Tuesday, August 30, 2022
DR. JOSEPH HORTON: WHAT IS TRUTH? COMPROMISING FOR THE CULTURE
Who better than the British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) to report on a conference of Anglican bishops? The BBC is satisfied that the Archbishop of Canterbury Justin Welby has brokered a…...
Monday, August 22, 2022
DR. MARK HERNDRICKSON: THE ORWELLIAN INFLATION REDUCTION ACT
You know the old joke: How can you tell when a politician is lying? When his/her lips are moving. That extreme cynicism about politicians is reinforced by the recent passage…...
Tuesday, August 16, 2022
DR. MARK W. HENDRICKSON: CORPORATE SOCIAL RESPONSIBILITY AND ITS NEWEST VERSION: ESG
What is Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR)? Wikipedia defines CSR as “a form of … private business self-regulation which aims to contribute to societal goals of a philanthropic, activist, or charitable…...
Wednesday, August 10, 2022
DR. DAVID AYERS: WHICH IS MORE EXTREME? THE EVOLUTION OF THE ABORTION POSITIONS
In the land of the mainstream media, conservative and Republican positions on so-called “culture war” issues are always “extreme,” while they rarely raise such concerns about liberal and Democrat positions.…...
Thursday, July 28, 2022
Dr. R.B.A. DI MICCIO: IS THE WEST REALLY RESPONSIBLE FOR THE UKRAIN CRISIS
John Mearsheimer has unquestionably earned our attention on contemporary international relations and on the Ukrainian crisis. Mearsheimer is an academic who specializes in theories of international relations (IR). If you…...
Thursday, July 14, 2022
DR. BRIAN DELLINGER: THE MEASURE OF A MACHINE - IS LAMDA A PERSON?
In June 2022, Google suspended engineer Blake Lemoine from his work in artificial intelligence. Having previously assisted with a program called the Language Models for Dialog Applications (LaMDA), Lemoine was…...
Monday, July 11, 2022
JOHN A. SPARKS: JUSTICE ALITO LEADS THE COURT BACK TO THE CONSTITUTION
Justice Samuel Alito’s majority opinion in Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization holds that both Roe v. Wade and Planned Parenthood v. Casey must be overturned. The predicted impact on…...
Thursday, July 07, 2022
DR. MARK HENDRICKSON: WASHINGTON’S CORN-BASED ETHONAL MANDATES ARE POORLY TIMED
Recently, President Joe Biden flew into Iowa—our country’s leading corn-producing state—to announce to appreciative farmers that the Environmental Protection Agency will require American motor-fuel refiners to increase the amount of…...
Tuesday, July 05, 2022
DR. PAUL KENGOR: 1776 AND SLAVERY
Editor’s note: A version of this article first appeared at National Catholic Register. Many progressives today are eager to redefine America not as starting in 1776, which is literally when…...
Thursday, June 30, 2022
DR. JOHN SPARKS: A TRILOGY OF CASES PROTECTING RELIGIOUS LIBERTY, COMPLETED
In 2017, the Supreme Court decided a case that involved a school playground resurfacing program provided by the state of Missouri. Trinity Lutheran School sought a state grant, which was…...
Wednesday, June 29, 2022
DR. PAUL KENGOR: WHAT REVERSING ROE REALLY MEANS
Editor’s note: A version of this article first appeared at The American Spectator. Throughout the 2015-16 campaign for the Republican presidential nomination, I urged conservatives not to nominate Donald…...
Monday, June 27, 2022
DR. DAVID AYERS: A CALL TO THE CHURCH - TEACHING POST-DOBBS
So now it is official. The Supreme Court decision in Dobbs v. Jackson Women's Health Organization has overturned Roe v. Wade, and the legal issue of whether and how to…...
Thursday, June 16, 2022
“Cat’s In The Cradle” Father’s Day
The haunting refrains of Harry Chapin’s song “Cat’s in the Cradle,” like "planes to catch and bills to pay … when you coming home, dad?” started to play in my…...
Wednesday, June 08, 2022
DR. MARK HENDRICKSON: CONGRESS IS GOING AFTER THE ALLEGED PRICE GOUGERS - AGAIN
As Yogi Berra, baseball’s preeminent wit and philosopher, would say, “It’s déjà vu all over again.” Fifteen years ago, I wrote in this space about an attempt by Congress to…...
Thursday, June 02, 2022
DR. PAUL KENGOR: THE ABORTION STATES OF AMERICA
Editor’s note: An early version of this article first appeared in Crisis Magazine last October. Roe v. Wade and so-called “abortion rights” are facing challenges unlike any time before.…...
Tuesday, May 31, 2022
DR. JOHN SPARKS: GRISWOLD V. CONNECTICUT: HOW WE GOT TO ROE V. WADE
The Supreme Court will soon issue its opinion on Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization, which concerns a Mississippi law preventing elective abortions beyond 15 weeks gestation. I am not…...
Friday, May 06, 2022
CHRISTIAN LEADERS AND CONTROVERSIES: THE CASE OF FRANCIS COLLINS
There is always a dilemma for Christians in best handling and reacting to the positions and counsel of Christian leaders. Often these are people we have grown to trust and…...
Monday, May 02, 2022
PAUL KENGOR: RUSSIANS KNOW DEATH UNLIKE ANY OTHER PEOPLE
Editor’s note: This article first appeared at The American Spectator. The number of Russian combat deaths in Ukraine is striking, perhaps already exceeding the total dead in 10 years…...
Friday, April 15, 2022
DR. GARY WELTON: YES, I AM MY BROTHER’S KEEPER—AND SO MUCH MORE
For the first time in our lives, we have experienced a universal international event, known as Covid-19. The World Series doesn’t come close to being a global event. The World…...
Wednesday, April 13, 2022
DR. RICHARD D. KOCUR: TO STUPIDITY AND BEYOND
“To infinity and beyond!” In November of 1995, the first of four blockbuster animated films in the Toy Story franchise was released by Walt Disney Pictures to both audience and…...
Friday, April 08, 2022
DR. MARK HENDRICKSON: BIDEN’S UNCONSTITUTIONAL PROPOSED TAX ON WEALTH
President Joe Biden’s proposed 2023 federal budget, which calls for a gargantuan outlay of $5.8 trillion, includes plans for a new kind of tax on the wealth of the rich.…...
Monday, March 28, 2022
DR. MARK HENDRICKSON: WHAT IS THE ROPER POLICY RESPONSE TO TODAY’S INFLATION?
If you get depressed easily, you may wish to skip this article. Our country has suffered inflationary bouts to various degrees throughout our history, with perhaps the most severe having…...
Monday, March 21, 2022
AN INCREDIBLE LIFE AND LEGACY: REMEMBERING CHARLES WILEY
My old and dear friend and mentor, Charlie Wiley, passed away in his sleep this week. He was 95 years old. If living a long life with your mind intact,…...
Monday, March 14, 2022
DR. MARK HENDRICKSON: ECONOMIC RAMIFICATIONS OF RUSSIA’S INVASION OF UKRAINE
As the world recoils in dismay and disgust at Russian aggression and grieves for the horrific suffering of the Ukrainian people, many Americans are just beginning to grasp the economic…...
Monday, February 21, 2022
DR. JAMES THRASHER: GOING ROGUE FOR THE TRUTH
Back in 1995, as a new director for a college office of career services, I attended the National Association of Colleges and Employers conference. One of the concurrent sessions was…...
Wednesday, February 16, 2022
DR. MARK HENDRICKSON: INFLATION - WHO OR WHAT IS THE CULPRIT?
Inflation – defined herein as a widespread increase in the prices of widely purchased consumer goods – has gotten worse since I commented on it last spring. According to the…...
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