Only the most unhinged Trump haters would not be overjoyed at the prospect of peace with North Korea. “The past doesn’t have to be the future” was the message conveyed in the video Trump shared with Kim Jong-un during their summit Only those ignorant of the suffering of the North Korean people would not
READ MOREA Northeastern University professor’s Washington Post op-ed “Why Can’t We Hate Men?” has received a flood of negative feedback. Northeastern sociology professor Suzanna Danuta Walters, also director of women’s, gender, and sexuality studies, authored the article published Friday, which appears to advocate contempt toward individual men, instead of institutions, and instructs men to relinquish their grasp on power. “Pledge to vote
READ MOREIn April, a group launched a lawsuit against the school, insisting that Harvard University release hidden information regarding its admissions. The organization leading the lawsuit is Students for Fair Admissions, which is comprised of Asian-American students who applied to get into Harvard and were rejected. The group says it believes the school is guilty of
READ MOREOver the weekend a friend placed a new children’s book in my hands which had been given to her granddaughter. It was a nicely bound, hardcover book with colorful pictures entitled, The Little Radical: The ABCs of Activism. I knew books like these were becoming quite popular, particularly in public school classrooms, yet I had
READ MOREPrager University recently made a video exposing the many ugly consequences of adultery as a sin against the Ten Commandments. This is an easy selling point for Christians–God says adultery is wrong, and therefore you have sufficient motive to avoid adultery. However, even if you think Christianity is just an elaborate fairytale, adultery has very real consequences that have nothing to do with eternal fire and damnation. Here are
READ MOREFirst the Barbie makeover, now this. The Miss America Pageant announced last week that it will no longer be a pageant, a word which the Macmillan Dictionary defines as “a competition between young women in which judges decide who is the most beautiful.” “We are no longer a pageant; we are a competition. We will no
READ MOREFor those who do not use social media, the word “TERF” (which stands for “Trans Exclusive Radical Feminist”) might be disorienting. Thanks to its relatively recent and ferocious introduction into mainstream media, however, the term is gaining widespread use, including news stories about celebrities sporting a signature hairstyle known as “TERF bangs.” The function of
READ MOREOver the last century, the world has witnessed the slow but steady depoliticization of America and Western Europe in favor of the rule of the apolitical “expert.” The great challenge of our era is to foster the return of actual political life between the people and their elected officials. President Trump’s summit with Kim Jong-un
READ MOREOn this day (June 12) President Ronald Reagan gave what is probably his most famous and influential speech — the “Berlin Wall speech” — at the Brandenburg Gate in West Berlin, Germany on June 12, 1987. It was in this speech (at about 12:00 in the video below) that Reagan made his famous and history-changing
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