Blog 3 Columns

Robert E. Lee Wasn’t Hitler 0
- Culture
- August 23, 2017
Many Americans are aware of the effort to remove Confederate monuments across America. Whether one believes the effort is a justified action or misguided iconoclasm, there is no question the debate has opened old wounds. There are valid reasons why one may not one wish to have in their city or university a monument honoring
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My ‘Sex Change’ Was a Myth. Why Trying to Change One’s Sex Will Always Fail.0
- Culture
- August 23, 2017
Recently, during a radio show on which I appeared as a guest, a caller posed a question I frequently get asked: “Do the administration of cross-gender hormones and genital surgery change a boy into a girl or a girl into a boy?” The answer is simple: biologically, not at all. Underneath all the cosmetic procedures,
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College Prez: Universities Churning Out Degrees in Opinions Rather than Truth 1
- Culture
- August 23, 2017
You may recall that a few years ago, the president of Oklahoma Wesleyan University, Dr. Everett Piper, bluntly informed students that his school was not a day care, but a university. Dr. Piper’s words made waves because they were some of the first to acknowledge the growing epidemic of coddled victimhood on college campuses. Dr.
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Why Christians Must Get Poverty and Inequality Right 0
- Economics
- August 22, 2017
Over the last two decades, global poverty has plummeted and the world’s poorest people have steadily climbed out of the shadow of death. Yet many Christians cannot distinguish between dire poverty and income inequality, falsely believe both are worsening, and oppose the very policies that have lifted the world’s poor out of malnutrition. “Why do
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Why are More Women in the Helping Professions? Hint: It’s Not the Patriarchy’s Fault 0
- August 22, 2017
“Want to close wage gap? Step one: Change your major from feminist dance therapy to electrical engineering.” This tweet by American Enterprise Institute scholar Christina Hoff Sommers has been loved 32,000 times since 2015. It points to a fundamental truth about the reason that women are on average paid less than men. It’s because they
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The Real Reason Students Today Are So Listless 1
- Culture
- August 22, 2017
In recent years, the rise of high school graduation rates has been met with great exaltation. Naturally, these numbers seem to indicate that all is well in America’s classrooms. But have you ever noticed the odd discrepancy which accompanies these graduation rates? Why is that 83 percent of American students graduated from high school in
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The Quiet Exodus From Mass Schooling 3
- Education
- August 22, 2017
Parents are fed up. As mass schooling becomes more restrictive, more standardized and more far-reaching into a child’s young life, many parents are choosing alternatives. Increasingly, these parents are reclaiming their child’s education and are refocusing learning around children, family, and community in several different ways. With back-to-school time upon us, more than two million
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The New York Times Continues Its Tradition of Whitewashing Communism 0
- Philosophy
- August 22, 2017
It seems communism is back in vogue at The New York Times. A sad but common issue in the modern West is that progressives have created a fanciful and distorted picture of socialism to make it seem like an intriguing alternative to American-style capitalism. Ikea socialism—with Sweden as the model—is an utterly distorted, but at
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Scholars Propose Public Schooling for Babies to Fight Inequality 0
- Education
- August 22, 2017
In my years as a music teacher, I learned one very important thing. One could start teaching a child an instrument when they entered kindergarten, but the going would often be slow and the lessons a strain for both teacher and student. Once a child hit age seven, however, things began clicking at a much
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Robert E. Lee Wasn’t Hitler 0