J. D. Vance, the Republican Vice Presidential nominee, has been called "the standard bearer of the New Right." And "perhaps the most eloquent champion of a new Christian approach to politics." So how is that different from the Old Right and from the old Christian approach to politics? And which is better?
Joe Biden drops out of the race; the transformation of the Republican Party; and the summer of resistance.
Some conservatives are trying to form a "parallel economy" as an alternative to that of the woke corporations. Some Christians are grabbing onto the idea, wanting to do business only with fellow Christians. David Bahnsen shows why a separate economy is impossible and theologically problematic. But most ventures associated with the concept are just trying to create alternative products, which is quite in line with the overall free market economy.
My home state of Oklahoma is requiring that the Bible be incorporated into the curriculum of its public schools. What do you think of that?
John Corbett found fame and fortune in his successful 30-year-old career as an actor. But now he says that he picked the wrong thing to do with his life. Acting is just reciting words other people wrote for him. It is not creative, he says, or fulfilling. He makes some good points about a profession the public glorifies too much, but he needs to understand the doctrine of vocation.
For the last ten Republican National conventions, covering a span of 40 years, the party platform has included a plank opposing abortion. Not this time. Instead of the "right to life," the 2024 platform stands for the right of states to decide the issue. One observer says, "For the first time, neither party is pro life." Does that mean pro-life voters might just as well vote for the Democrats? Not at all.
Why do conservatives like Donald Trump so much, and why do liberals despise him so much? That sounds like a silly question. But Trump is actually hard to classify politically. Some of Trump's policies come right out of the liberals' playbook and flatly oppose conservative orthodoxy. And yet liberals give him no credit and conservatives support him no matter what he believes. The reason he is both popular and reviled is Trump the man.
The attempted assassination of Donald Trump. Also, Republicans have their convention and Generation Z takes politics way too seriously.
The Somali-Dutch-American critic of radical Islam, the ex-New Atheist, Christian convert Ayaan Hirsi Ali shows that today's progressive feminism--what she calls "luxury feminism"--is actually working against the interests of most women.
Jeffrey Blehar tells a story from ancient China: "Yue’s most devoted warriors would march forward from the front ranks, stand before the opposing army on the battlefield, and demonstrate their implacable fearlessness by chopping off their own heads." What would be some examples of this syndrome today?
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