Andrew Fowler has a thoughtful post-Holy Week meditation at RealClearReligion on Pontius Pilate. He says, in the words of its title, we presently live in "A Culture of Pontius Pilates." That is, we ask, "What is truth?" And even when we know what it is, we deny it for fear of the crowd.
Donald Trump has been saying that he would work out a "deal" on abortion that would please everybody. He finally announced his position. He would just leave it to the states. What do you think about this solution?
I came across some clickbait on things kids did in the 60s that parents would never allow today. At first, I laughed. Then I waxed nostalgic, since I did nearly all of these things. And then I started thinking. Does this hold a clue to why we Baby Boomers messed up the culture and the subsequent generations?
Happiness is down and mental health problems are up, especially among young adults under 30, the so-called Generation Z. But no wonder, according to a writer who cites their lack of religion, their misplaced trust in politics and government, and--with their rejection of marriage and parenthood--their repudiation of the family.
"Conspicuous consumption" is the use of luxury possessions to signal to one and all your high social status. Now a writer has studied "luxury beliefs"--particularly the tenets of political and cultural progressivism--which have become status symbols, both for the cultural elite and for those who aspire to belong to that social class.
Second jobs; women as closet conservatives; and why does it take so long to build things anymore?
A new book entitled "White Rural Rage" calls rural Americans the biggest threat to democracy, due to their racist, sexist, xenophobic attitudes. A political scientist tears the book apart, showing how actual research refutes the charges and explaining why rural Americans resent the liberal elites.
"War is no longer a concept from the past," said Donald Tusk, the Prime Minister of Poland. "it is real. . . . I know it sounds devastating, especially for the younger generation, but we have to get used to the fact that a new era has begun: the pre-war era." Do you agree? What does this mean for the United States?
American conservatism has been described as "fusionist," an alliance of traditionalism and libertarianism. But the New Right, according to one writer, is based on a different fusionism: between Catholic Integralism and Nietzschean Vitalism. Both are anti-American and anti-evangelical.
The conventional wisdom is that church affiliation is plummeting because Christians hold to other culturally conservative beliefs. Those are surely factors in many cases, but the churches that are showing the biggest exodus are the denominations that promote progressive politics, support the LGBTQ agenda, and are culturally liberal.
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