March 18, 2024

Imprisonment without trial for a "hate crime" before it's committed, the UK bans puberty blockers, and walking back defunding the police.

March 15, 2024

We have been blogging about the different kinds of conservatism contending today--National Conservatism, Freedom Conservatism, Cultural Conservatism, etc. Southern Baptist theologian Andrew T. Walker argues that ALL types of conservatism need to be grounded in the reality of God. 

March 15, 2024

Last Sunday we switched to Daylight Savings Time, bringing back the great debate about whether to make it permanent, make Standard Time permanent, or keep switching depending on the season.

March 14, 2024

Now that freely-available Artificial Intelligence programs can generate images, we are seeing them everywhere.  But can they or should they be used to make sacred art?

March 13, 2024

Sebastian Morello makes an important distinction between being "pre-Christian" and "post-Christian."  He then says that "the conservative-liberal, Right-Left divide means almost nothing now" and proposes a new paradigm. 

March 12, 2024

A journalist was shocked to find that "Christian nationalists" believe that rights come from God and not from government. Never mind that the notion of God-given rights constitute the "self-evident truths" of the Declaration of Independence. The difference between those and rights bestowed by the government (as in France declaring that abortion is a constitutional right).

March 11, 2024

Another bad idea from France, Colorado's DNA scandal, and world hunger gives way to world obesity.

March 8, 2024

Sixty years ago, thirty years before the worldwide web, Marshall McLuhan not only anticipated the internet, social media, artificial intelligence, and other technologies, he predicted the impact they would have and the problems they would create.

March 8, 2024

The primary season to select the major parties' candidates is over for all practical purposes.  We now have the ticket:  Incumbent president Joe Biden for the Democrats against former president Donald Trump for the Republicans.  How do you see the election playing out?

March 7, 2024

We've been blogging about different political theories.  Here is another one:  Political Nihilism. As many as a third of Americans of both parties have what researchers define as a "need for chaos." They want to "burn down" the system, even though they know of nothing to replace it with.


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