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  • Is Biden Prepared to Lose Afghanistan?

    Is Biden Prepared to Lose Afghanistan?0

    Is President Joe Biden prepared to preside over the worst U.S. strategic defeat since the fall of Saigon in 1975? For that may be what’s at stake if Biden follows through on the 2020 peace deal with the Taliban to withdraw all U.S. forces from Afghanistan by May 1—just two months from now.     

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  • Is Bernie Right About Education in Cuba?

    Is Bernie Right About Education in Cuba?0

    Vermont Senator Bernie Sanders spent a large part of the last week defending earlier statements he made regarding Fidel Castro and Cuba. While denouncing the dictatorship of Castro, he praised the social programs that were implemented under his rule, notably with regards to literacy. He pointed out that there was a rapid increase in literacy rates in Cuba

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  • Is Berkeley the Fort Sumter of a New Civil War?

    Is Berkeley the Fort Sumter of a New Civil War?0

    Could the college town where the “Free Speech Movement” began be the place where it ends? That’s the question asked by Frances Dinkelspiel, writing in The Daily Beast, after covering the confrontation this weekend between far-left anti-free-speech groups and far-right pro-free-speech groups. “As a reporter who has covered Berkeley since 2009, when two journalists and

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  • Is Believing in God Worth It?

    Is Believing in God Worth It?0

    One of the most misunderstood “arguments” for the existence of God is popularly known as Pascal’s Wager. But Pascal’s Wager is not an argument for the existence of God at all. Instead, it’s an argument in favor of pursuing the questions of, and relationship with, God. Pascal’s Wager cannot act as a replacement for the

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  • Is Beijing Funding Riots in America?

    Is Beijing Funding Riots in America?0

    Who is funding the clearly organized riots happening throughout the U.S.? It’s a question often asked these days, without many answers. Black Lives Matter has been a consistent participant in each of the riots this summer. In fact, up to 95 percent of this summer’s riots are linked to Black Lives Matter activism, according to

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  • Is Beauty Really in the Eye of the Beholder?

    Is Beauty Really in the Eye of the Beholder?0

    When you think of beauty your mind may go to a sunset or landscape, maybe a famous painting or poem. It is less common to associate beauty with medieval Scholastic philosophy, especially that of a celibate priest named Thomas Aquinas. Ancient peoples leading up to the Scholastic period took beauty very seriously, believing that beauty

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