What do the following claims have in common?  That there is real hunger in America, that twenty percent of females in college are sexually assaulted, that racism is institutionalized in America and especially on college campuses, that climate change is more dangerous than radical Islam? According to Bret Stephens, the Wall Street Journal’s wonderfully plain-thinking columnist, these four claims have two things in common: none of them is true, and each of them is an attempt by liberals to switch the subject... Read more

Robert Oscar Lopez has done it again. This son of gay parents, this California English professor willing to endure scorn and abuse for being politically incorrect, has shaken our presumptions again. This time it is our thinking about the 14th Amendment, the most-cited Amendment in litigation today, and particularly in litigation supporting gay marriage. (more…) Read more

Today’s Wall Street Journal contains a summary of the latest research on climate change.  Unfortunately for those who want to change public policy to combat climate change, the latest research does not support their politics. In fact, their policy prescriptions will actually hurt the poor. Here are some choice selections from this important article: (more…) Read more

One wonders. In 2011 Vanderbilt got bad press around the country for its outrageous decision to kick off campus four student religious groups: the Christian Legal Society (CLS), Fellowship of Christian Athletes, Graduate Christian Fellowship, and Beta Upsilon Chi, a Christian fraternity. (more…) Read more

Top scholars will gather in Los Angeles on January 18 to discuss the growing threat to Israel and how Christians can respond. The conference title is “Evangelical Christians, Jews and Israel: Looming Threats To An Historic Friendship.” It features leading scholars from Israel (Malcolm Lowe and Petra Heldt), the leader of the Aramaic community in Israel (Shadi Khalloul), the author of Jesus the Jewish Theologian (Brad Young), an expert on anti-Judaism in the Church (Tricia Miller), the President of Tribe Media Corp. and the... Read more

The Epic of Gilgamesh, a literary product of Mesopotamia, contains many of the same themes and motifs as the Hebrew Bible. Of these, the best-known is probably the Epic’s flood story, which reads a lot like the biblical tale of Noah’s ark (Gen 6-9). (more…) Read more

The authors of the New Testament never eliminated distinctions between Jews and Gentiles, and prophesied a world to come centered in Jerusalem. http://www.thepublicdiscourse.com/2015/11/16021/     Read more

Yesterday the provost of Vanderbilt wrote a letter to the student body about the growing controversy over Professor Carol Swain, the conservative African-American who teaches politics at Vanderbilt Law School and has dared to criticize Islam and gay marriage.  In retaliation a petition calling for her ouster has gathered more than 1500 signatures. The provost wrote, “Freedom to share ideas . . . is not the freedom to take actions that discriminate against or threaten others.”  She did not qualify her words.  As a... Read more

Friends: We are in the midst of campus irrationality unseen since the 1960s. It is reminiscent of China’s Cultural Revolution, when student Red Guards made false and ridiculous accusations against their professors, and the profs felt compelled to confess crimes they did not commit in order to protect themselves from worse evils.  Think of hapless Yale professor Nicholas Christakis who, after standing up for free speech, later confessed to “insensitivity” to students who “felt” hurt by a “climate of racism.”  This on... Read more

David French has an op-ed at National Review that is going viral. Do you know of him? He is a distinguished lawyer, an Iraq war veteran, and a graduate of Harvard Law School. It is worth reading, especially by those of us in the groves of academe . . . and all conservatives who have friends or children or grandchildren in colleges and universities. He asks why we stand by idly while the young are corrupted, and parents pay exorbitant prices... Read more