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  • Sex Is a Community Matter

    Sex Is a Community Matter5

    It’s been more than 60 years since the sexual revolution of the 1960s swept across the nation removing sexual barriers and changing beliefs around sex. These days, most people have accepted the idea that what two consenting adults do sexually is their own business, and the idea that sex is for forming families through the

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  • A Tale of Two Houses

    A Tale of Two Houses1

    Jake Meador’s article in The Atlantic* about the decline in American church attendance gave me a different perspective on some thoughts I’ve been mulling over about the other great non-profit American institution: higher education. Meador begins with the question, “What if the problem isn’t that churches are asking too much of their members, but that they

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  • Farmer and Former Factory Worker Finds Overnight Fame with Viral Country Ballad

    Farmer and Former Factory Worker Finds Overnight Fame with Viral Country Ballad5

    Last week, Oliver Anthony was a blue-collar worker from Farmville, Virginia, living on a 90-acre farm with his three dogs, a man unknown to the world. Today, his song “Rich Men North of Richmond” is at the top of the global music charts. A backyard recording of his “blue collar anthem,” as it’s been dubbed,

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  • Why Are Some US Street Lights Turning Purple?

    Why Are Some US Street Lights Turning Purple?0

    I saw it for the first time in Wichita, Kansas. My coworker was driving a shuttle carrying myself and a few students from a guest speaker event, and I noticed something strange—a purple street light. I initially brushed this off as some weird mishap, but as we drove on I noticed dozens of purple street

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  • Friday Comic: Vive la Différence0

    Credit: OwenComics (store) Twitter: @owenbroadcast Instagram: @owenbroadcast Save this article to favorites

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  • A Case for the Lost Art of Memorization

    A Case for the Lost Art of Memorization4

    Memorization and recitation became part of my life through a club I was part of in middle and high school. With the club, I had the opportunity to recite patriotic speeches and poems along with chapters from the Bible in front of an audience of veterans, law enforcement officers, and first responders just about every

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  • Liberalism Is Broken and Canada Proves It

    Liberalism Is Broken and Canada Proves It1

    Liberalism is broken. This is a big kick-sand-in-my-face claim. And extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence. Canada’s embrace of euthanasia supplies that evidence. Let’s unpack this. First, what is “liberalism”? Its meaning shifts depending on whether one is speaking of economics or politics or ethics. Edmund Fawcett’s excellent Liberalism: The Life of an Idea, surveys scores of

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  • Stop the Grandstanding in Women’s Soccer

    Stop the Grandstanding in Women’s Soccer9

    Upon learning that the U.S. Women’s National Team (USWNT) was knocked out of the Women’s World Cup after a 5-4 loss to Sweden, I was not very sympathetic toward the team. It was particularly fitting that Megan Rapinoe, the team’s sour-faced forward and chief political activist, missed an important goal kick near the end of

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  • Stupefying the Privileged

    Stupefying the Privileged3

    A recent discussion with a friend of mine turned to COVID and its effects on her children, particularly in the ways the schools responded to the situation. COVID, she explained, really escalated the use of screens in school. Before COVID, politicians and others could commonly be heard extolling the need for every child to have

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