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Media Skewers ‘Sexist’ Sanders for Refusing to Bend the Knee0
- Politics
- January 17, 2020
The media cannot forgive Bernie Sanders for refusing to “bend the knee” to Elizabeth Warren regarding her recounting of a now infamous December 2018 meeting between the two, in which the Vermont senator allegedly said a woman could not be elected president. Furthermore, if you don’t agree with Sen. Warren’s version of events, or if you mention
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Why the Minimum Wage Is so Bad for Young Workers0
- Economics
- January 16, 2020
In today’s political discourse, the minimum wage is frequently mentioned by the more progressive members of Congress. On a basic level, raising the minimum wage appears to be a sympathetic policy for low-income wage earners. Often kept out of the conversation, however, are the downstream effects of this proposal. The consensus among economists has always been that
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What Teaching in China Taught Me About Religious Freedom0
- International
- January 16, 2020
The meaning of religious freedom came home to me, fittingly enough, by the dawn’s early light, slanting through a dormitory window in China many years ago. I was one of 10 young people spending a summer teaching English as a Second Language classes at an agricultural college 3,000 miles west of Beijing, in what’s known
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The Dehumanizing Horror of Facebook Tag Groups1
- Culture
- January 16, 2020
When I was in high school, I had a classmate who obsessively sorted everyone in the school into made-up categories. It seemed like every week, he would invent new sets of criteria by which to group us. For reasons I couldn’t fully explain, I hated it. It was only years later, when employers started asking
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Saving the Real American Dream in 20200
- Culture
- January 16, 2020
In Mark Helprin’s humorous and insightful novel Freddy and Fredericka, Freddy, the bumbling Prince of Wales and heir to the throne, and his spoiled wife Fredericka, are dispatched on a special mission: to conquer the United States of America. Wearing “modesty panels of golden rabbits’ fur,” they parachute into New Jersey at night and set off
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How New Rules Allow Men to Dominate Women’s Sports0
- January 16, 2020
Women’s athletics have been a subject of a growing transgender inclusion controversy that threatens to blow open wide as high school sports, college, the Olympics, and even the professional level are grappling with how to balance fairness with a new demand for “inclusion.” There are questions about how transgender athletes should qualify for participation, and
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Treasures in the Trash: Signs of Our Abundant Life0
- Culture
- January 15, 2020
Here I am visiting with my son, his wife, and their children in Asheville, North Carolina. This morning I was outside enjoying the dawn and the crowing of the roosters when I looked with new eyes at the yellow recycling bins at the edge of their driveway. Soon I was rooting through that bin, pulling
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The Impulses Driving Transgender ‘Vandals’1
- Culture
- January 15, 2020
Want to know some surprising facts about transgenderism? Physician Michael Laidlaw has some to offer in a recent article for Public Discourse: More than 60 gender clinics have opened in the U.S. since 2007. The transgender student population is growing. Surveys show “as many as 3 percent of school kids now identify as transgender.” One
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New Hampshire Is Fighting Back to Defend the Electoral College0
- Politics
- January 15, 2020
New Hampshire legislators have introduced an election bill that would be completely unacceptable under normal circumstances. But these are not normal times. Constitutional institutions, especially the Electoral College, are under attack. Extraordinary action may be needed. Thus, some New Hampshire legislators have proposed to withhold popular vote totals at the conclusion of a presidential election. The numbers
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