Allen Birchler on the Rhetoric of William Jennings Bryan
Bryan was very skilled in the use of the English language. Even on the cold pages of print over a quarter of a century later ... » Go
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Jeff Yang on a Living, Breathing Constitution
The vulnerability of birthright citizenship lies in the same thing that allows the U.S. Constitution to live and breathe and stay relevant to a changing ... » Go
Does the Bible Affirm Same-Sex Relationships?
You may have heard the claim that the Bible, when read correctly, is not against believers entering monogamous, faithful same-sex relationships. The arguments sound quite ... » Go
Carl Trueman on Evacuating the Definition of Marriage
Gay marriage does not simply involve a minor expansion of the traditional concept. There was a time when gay writers such as Andrew Sullivan argued ... » Go
Patrick T. Brown on Climate Science as Cassandra
To put it bluntly, climate science has become less about understanding the complexities of the world and more about serving as a kind of Cassandra, ... » Go
Dangerous Affirmation
Since 1968, the LGBT movement has made significant inroads into the Christian church. The affirming church movement has become mainstream through the erosion of mainline ... » Go
Anika Collier Navaroli on Selective Free Speech
Rep. Stansbury asked what Twitter has done and is doing to combat hate speech on its platform. Navaroli correctly declined to address current policies since ... » Go
Sam Harris and Garry Kasparov on AI and Respect for the Deep Blue team
The reason I wrote the book is not to settle old scores or give my version of the match, but to say that we should ... » Go
Buster Scruggs on the Hereafter and the Used to Be
There's just gotta be a place up ahead
Where men aren't lodown and poker's played fair
If there weren't, what are all the songs about
I'll see y'all ... » Go
John Daniel Davidson on Content Moderation as Censorship
The Twitter Files have revealed or confirmed three important truths about social media and the deep state. First, the entire concept of “content moderation” is a ... » Go
William Barrett on Socialism and Human Rights
What strikes me as strange is why I should have held on so long and tenaciously to this faith in “democratic socialism.” How could we ... » Go
Arthur Herman on Citizens as Passive Objects
The pandemic tempted governments and their elite allies to treat citizens as passive objects to be dictated to, bullied and coerced en masse. ... » Go
Mary Grabar on Zinn, Casas, Christianity, and Defending the Indigenous
Where Zinn doesn’t follow Las Casas is where the priest mentions the Indians’ cannibalism — the priest reports, on the very next page after the ... » Go
Taylor Sheridan as Elsa Dutton on a Wonderful World, Full of Monsters
When I meet God the first thing I want to ask him is ... Why make the world with such wonders and yet fill it ... » Go
Denzel Washington on the Enemy Within
The enemy is the inner me. The Bible says in the last days we’ll be lovers of ourselves. The No. 1 photograph today is a ... » Go
Steven E. Koonin on Anthropogenic Climate Change
Here’s what I discovered: Humans exert a growing, but physically small, warming influence on the climate. The results from many different climate models disagree with, or ... » Go
Leonard E. Read on the Invisible Hand and the Miracle of the Pencil
I, Pencil, am a complex combination of miracles: a tree, zinc, copper, graphite, and so on. But to these miracles which manifest themselves in Nature ... » Go
John Dewey on an Open Universe Without Bounds or Final Causes
To many timid, albeit sincere, souls of an earlier century, the decay of the doctrine that all true and worthful science is knowledge of final ... » Go
Marriage, Scripture, and the Church
This book takes a distinctive approach to the same-sex-union debate by framing the issue as a matter of marriage. Darrin Snyder Belousek demonstrates that the ... » Go
Bonnie Kristian on the False Prophecies of Q
The "storm" never came. The mass executions of prominent Democrats didn't happen. Former President Donald Trump didn't declare martial law and institute a "New American ... » Go
Brett McCracken on Algorithms and Aimless Folly
When we grab our phones aimlessly, scroll our feeds without a goal in mind, or suggest to our spouse that “we should watch something on ... » Go
Amanda Gorman’s “The Hill We Climb” (video and text)
We will not march back to what was, but move to what shall be: a country that is bruised, but whole; benevolent, but bold; fierce ... » Go
George Orwell (as O’Brien) on External Reality and Postmodernism
You believe that reality is something objective, external, existing in its own right. You also believe that the nature of reality is self-evident. When you ... » Go
Big Sister is Watching You
The book's dictatorial tone is its most striking feature. Out of a lifetime of reading, I can recall no other book in which a tone ... » Go
George Wald on Time as the Magical Hero of the Plot
The important point is that since the origin of life belongs to the category of at-least-once phenomena, time is on its side. However improbable we ... » Go