A former New York City police officer writes about crime and policing in the 1970s vs. crime and policing today. A meditation on the vocation of the police.
A former New York City police officer writes about crime and policing in the 1970s vs. crime and policing today. A meditation on the vocation of the police.
Andrew Klavan has identified four issues that need to be resolved in order to bring Christianity back to the culture.
Giving Trump credit for the ceasefire in Gaza. Sexual discrimination vs. gender identity discrimination. And signs of a cultural shift towards religion.
Citizens in a democratic republic have the vocation of both subject and ruler. In a discussion of whether Christians should support the deportation of immigrants here illegally, Grayson Quay refers to this double role as the "collective magistrate."
Should the United States try to acquire Greenland?
In reading up on the civil war in Syria, I learned that the recently overthrown President Bashar al-Assad and the members of his ruling faction are Alawites. Digging deeper, I found that Alawism is a strange mash-up of Islam and Christianity.
Donald Trump's political victory seems to be accompanied by a larger "vibe shift" in American culture. The shift is away from the woke progressivism that for decades has reigned supreme with the cultural elite. Politico has published an article entitled "How Donald Trump Transformed Mass Culture", a round table discussion on Trump's impact on popular culture--the realm of entertainment, fashion, business, and non-elite society.
In today's culture, doing things with other people has become rarer and rarer. People are spending more and more time home alone, by choice. Americans are increasingly anti-social, to the point that it's becoming harder and harder to have a sense of society.
The Great Los Angeles Fire. Why UK officials ignore the groomer gangs. And almost no world leaders are popular.
I am astonished at the relatively mild reactions among progressives to Donald Trump's re-election and the way so many of them are blaming themselves and their woke ideology for their defeat. I've blogged about the sudden vibe shift away from identity politics on the left. This may not last, but here is another bit of evidence that the left is changing its tune.
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