I’m in the D.C. area attending a board meeting of Patrick Henry College, where I used to teach. A former colleague told me about an exhibit he saw at the new Museum of the Bible near the Smithsonians. It displays one of the three surviving
I’m in the D.C. area attending a board meeting of Patrick Henry College, where I used to teach. A former colleague told me about an exhibit he saw at the new Museum of the Bible near the Smithsonians. It displays one of the three surviving
Authorities have indicted 50 people–including 33 wealthy parents–for a massive scheme of fraud in order to get their kids accepted into elite universities. Following the advice of a college exam tutorial company, the parents would do things like hire someone else to take the SAT
With the collapse of the Soviet Union and the end of the Cold War, people were saying that socialism had been “consigned to the dust bin of history.” Free market capitalism and liberal democracy were so ascendant that people were talking about the “end of
This is tax season. People will be preparing their income taxes for the first time under the 2017 tax cuts. Some early filers were outraged that their tax refunds are going to be lower than last year. Social media was fired up with complaints that
As Democrats fall off the deep end, some progressives are saying that unlimited abortion on demand has to be the key, defining issue for progressivism. Not economics, not the environment, not social justice, but aborting babies. Unborn, viable, being born, already born–it doesn’t matter. Progressives
Even many pro-lifers concede that an abortion might be justified in order to save the life of the mother. The reasoning is that in such rare tragic dilemmas, either the mother or the child will die, so it is morally legitimate to choose which one
Today is Ash Wednesday, the beginning of Lent. I love this season of the church year, which is odd because it is a time for self-denial and repentance. I try to observe all of that, painful though it be, and yet I love Lent. This
As the Mueller investigation draws to a close, perhaps not living up to Democrats’ expectations, the House of Representatives is starting an even bigger investigation of President Trump. Led by New York Congressman Jerry Nadler, the chairman of the House Judiciary Committee, the investigation will
One by one, our sexual taboos have been falling. According to our pop culture, premarital sex is now the norm. What used to be called “self-abuse” is served by the vast world of internet pornography. Sadomasochism has become the topic of best-selling romance novels.
Researchers have attempted to quantify the sinfulness of the various states in the union. Yes, this is absurd, as if one could measure the depravity of the human heart. But the methodology, the findings, and the rankings are interesting nonetheless. The researchers measured “Anger &
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