Beethoven is being canceled, not for being racist or sexist but because classical music is allegedly exclusionary and elitist. But the arguments demonstrate the falsity, reductionism, and contradictions of cancel culture.
Beethoven is being canceled, not for being racist or sexist but because classical music is allegedly exclusionary and elitist. But the arguments demonstrate the falsity, reductionism, and contradictions of cancel culture.
Tonight's presidential debate promises to be historic, pivotal, and--if I may dare to say it--entertaining. Join me in live-blogging it right here, at this post, at 8:00 p.m. Central.
Even if everything goes right, this may be a chaotic election day. But both sides are claiming that the election will be illegitimate if they don't win. Even if everything goes wrong, the Constitution spells out a way forward.
If the Senate gets into the habit of packing the Supreme Court, our Constitutional government--with its three independent branches that check and balance each other--would cease to exist.
A television drama on PBS described Count von Zinzendorf as a strange mystic who worshiped the wounds of Christ and led a sex cult. In reality, he was a Lutheran Pietist who became a missionary to slaves, a moving hymn writer, and the founder of the Moravians, who, in turn, would convert John Wesley and influence American evangelicalism.
Book burning is the iconic manifestation of totalitarianism, thought control, and the suppression of freedom. And now cancel culture has come to point of burning books.
A new book by Rod Dreher sees the emergence of a "soft totalitarianism" and draws on the lessons of Soviet "dissidents" for how to resist it.
Historian Tom Holland argues that the major influence on Western civilization was not ancient Greece and Rome but Christianity. Our cultural values--such as mercy, equality, rights, and freedom--cannot be found in the ancient world until the religion built around a crucified Jew overthrew Greco-Roman power.
The death of Supreme Court justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg has poured gasoline on an already fiery presidential election. It creates the possibility that conservatives--including pro-lifers--could have solid control of the Supreme Court for a generation, even if Donald Trump loses the election.
The pro-abortion camp is saying that evangelicals used to support abortion. But actually, despite one short-lived Southern Baptist aberration, evangelicals have a long pro-life history, going back through the history of Protestantism, as part of a consistent Christian teaching that can be traced back as early as 70 A.D.
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