You think American politics is polarized and paralyzed? Take a look at the United Kingdom, which has become Disunited in its battle over Brexit. The issue of whether or how to leave the European Union is spilling over into other issues. For example, the nationalists
The late child-molester Jeffrey Epstein had many connections with big business and big politics. It turns out that he also had connections with big tech and big academia. The New Yorker‘s Ronan Farrow, who broke the #MeToo story, has published an article on how a research
Anti-discrimination laws applied to same-sex marriage and other LGBT issues often conflict with the Constitution’s guarantee of religious liberty. But they can also conflict with the Constitution’s guarantee of freedom of speech. Not to mention other related principles, such as academic freedom and artistic freedom.
Can the church use coercive power–either its own or that of the state–to achieve its spiritual goals? Most Protestants, but not all, have historically said “no.” But Roman Catholics have historically said “yes.” In a discussion of President Trump’s messianic praise as “the second coming
Fifty years ago, people were in a panic about the prospects of a population explosion, leading many countries to adopt policies of forced sterilization and mandatory abortions. Today, though, we are facing the opposite problem: a population implosion. At a recent meeting between the
Contrary to the common impression, the ancient world put a lot of emphasis on bathing and cleanliness, with the Romans going so far as to invent indoor plumbing. The Middle Ages also, with the encouragement of the Church, took a lot of baths, with population
Happy Labor Day, a holiday in which we should celebrate and reflect on our vocations. Remember that the theology of vocation has to do with all of the tasks, relationships, and offices that God calls us to. Not just our “work,” but also our families
If homophobia is the disapproval and fear of homosexuality, we now also have what we could term heterophobia, the disapproval and fear of heterosexuality. Marcie Bianco, writing for NBC news, no less, has written an article on dancer Julianne Hough’s declaration that she is “not straight”
Bernie Sanders says that the socialism he favors is the freedom-loving, pro-business, we’re-all-in-this-together welfare state of Scandinavia. But lately he and other leftists working to seize power are showing their true stripes as hard-core Marxist haters of not only capitalism but capitalists. Bernie Sanders, sounding
David Gelertner–a mathematician, an important computer scientist, a full professor at Yale–has announced that he no longer accepts Darwinism. Gelertner, who was seriously injured by the Unabomber terrorist, said that he was influenced by three books: Stephen Meyer’s Darwin’s Doubt (which he calls “one of
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