This weekend we will have open discussion threads. That is sort of like the open topics we have had here before, when you raise different topics of interest. But the difference is that this time you bring up things you'd like to discuss. That is, things you'd like your fellow Cranach readers to weigh in on.
Despite what conservative pundits, pollsters, and even Democrats were predicting, there was no red wave. Some lessons to be learned.
The Left considers Muslims to be an oppressed group and so supports them in the name of intersectionality. But Muslims seem to be waking up--as opposed to being "woke"--to the contradictions between their convictions and their leftist allies.
The stakes are especially high for both sides in today's election. Thoughts on democracy, the economy, threats to our children, crime, the state of our cities, and how the government's COVID response has brought on many of these problems. Also, come to this blog tonight to discuss the election results as they unfold in our "comments" section.
When parents complain about critical race and gender theory being taught in schools, the education establishment usually denies it. But a study has found that the majority of 18-20 year olds say that they were taught the tenets of critical theory in school.
What people really think is often different from what they say openly. A study sees how that applies to hot-button political and cultural issues. Young adults, Hispanics, and Independents are often more conservative than they let on to pollsters and their peers.
This weekend we discuss the high-stakes midterm elections. Offer your predictions, analysis, and last-minute politicking. Or whatever you want to say about it.
Most American conservatives believe in limited government, individual freedom, and free market economics. Some on the New Right, though, say that approach has failed and are calling for a big government conservatism in which the state is powerful enough to rebuild our broken civilization. This is the approach of European conservatism, while the American variety has aligned with what Europeans call "liberalism," a system built around freedom. There are problems, though, with big government conservatism.
John Daniel Davidson argues that conservatism has traditionally been about conserving things: the family, religious freedom, individual rights, our American heritage, Western civilization, etc. Those were worthy goals. But conservatism has failed to conserve them. He proposes a new strategy for the right that rejects the formula of "small government" and "free enterprise" in favor of a government big enough to rein in big corporations and rebuild American institutions. What do you think of this?
The pagan practice of thinking of temporal leaders as gods is back. It is being said that Donald Trump is Christ. A book argues that the Son of God and the Son of Man are two different persons: Jesus is the Son of God, but Trump is the Son of Man, who will come to rule the world. Read more
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