Our current political climate is highly polarized, with the left and the right not being able to stand each other and seemingly agreeing on nothing. And yet an issue has emerged that both sides are pushing: Preventing children from having access to information technology.
U.S. Navy is engaged in its most intense combat since World War II. Biden kills the petrodollar, along with American economic dominance. And a state buys ads against pro-life clinics.
My mother died a few weeks ago. She was 93, had Alzheimer's, was ready to go. Some deaths are tragic; hers was poignant. It made me very sad but also filled me with good memories and appreciation. I come to terms with things by writing about them, so please bear with me. I think you will find some more general applications.
Historians can debate when America was at its best. Was it in the era of the nation's founding? During World War II? The Sixties? Another way of looking at the issue is to ask, when was America at its best for you? The usual answer, according to a study, is whenever you were eleven. Discuss the topic in either way.
I would like to commend to you as a Biblical patron saint of vocation Malchijah the son of Rechab, repairer of the Dung Gate.
Language is what makes culture and all human relationships possible. We are seeing a broad based decline in language--not only the loss of the ability to read and write, but the also the ability to speak, listen, communicate, comprehend, and think. Nadya Williams argues that If we allow this trend to run its course, culture will be impossible and our very humanity will be at risk.
When we read about the brutality of totalitarian regimes--the Nazis, the Soviets, the North Koreans--we can hardly believe it. How could people do such things--the re-education camps, the political executions, the extermination projects--to each other? Well, in our over-heated political and ideological polarization today, totalitarian impulses are manifesting themselves.
Baptists consider adopting the Nicene Creed. Opinions are changing on transgenderism. And taking your parents to a job interview.
Aayan Hirsi Ali draws on the work of a KGB defector who testified about Soviet tactics of subversion, that is, weakening an opposing nation from within by undermining its values and turning its people against their own institutions. She shows how the stages of subversion are playing out in the West today, even in the apparent absence of an organized adversary.
Nearly half of Generation Z and over a quarter of internet users as a whole say that they have a "double life," projecting a different identity online than in their actual lives. Is this just innocent play acting, a sinister masquerade, a kind of virtual schizophrenia, or what?
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