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Poll Reveals the Least Religious Parts of America 0
- Religion
- April 24, 2018
This month, Gallup released the results of their annual poll on religious practice in America. The most religious state? Mississippi, which has held the crown since 2008. According to the poll, 59% of Mississippi’s residents report being “Very religious,” meaning that “religion is important to them, and they attend religious services weekly or almost weekly.”
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If Current Laws Had Been Followed, There Would Have Been No Waffle House Shooting 0
- Culture
- April 24, 2018
On Monday afternoon, Tennessee law enforcement officers captured a 29-year-old Illinois man suspected of opening fire on diners at a Nashville Waffle House, despite the man having had his firearms seized on multiple occasions in the last two years. Four people died and several others were wounded by the shooter—who wore nothing but a green
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What if Women Had Voted on Women’s Suffrage?0
- Philosophy
- April 23, 2018
G.K. Chesterton’s What’s Wrong with the World contains a section of feminism. By way of providing an accurate preview of what’s to come, he titled it “Feminism, Or the Mistake about Woman.” Yes, G. K. Chesterton had his differences with the feminist movement, then in its infancy. Chief among his differences was the mistaken view
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18 Earth Day Predictions That Were Spectacularly Wrong 0
- Culture
- April 23, 2018
Yesterday (Sunday, April 22) was Earth Day 2018 and time for my annual Earth Day post….. In the May 2000 issue of Reason Magazine, award-winning science correspondent Ronald Bailey wrote an excellent article titled “Earth Day, Then and Now” to provide some historical perspective on the 30th anniversary of Earth Day. In that article, Bailey
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Duke Divinity State of the School Address Interrupted by Rapping LGBTQ Students Who Issue 15 Demands: ‘I am Somebody, and I Won’t Be Stopped by Nobody’0
- Education
- April 23, 2018
The chickens have come home to roost at Duke’s Divinity School. Protesting students claim the school is insufficiently diverse. More needs to be done, they say, to combat racism, transphobia, homophobia, and associated evils. All this despite a campaign by the administration to achieve these very aims in the course of which a distinguished faculty
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Kanye West: Stop Embracing Victimhood and Start Thinking 0
- Culture
- April 23, 2018
Confession time. I’ve never known much about Kanye West. The basic extent of my knowledge runs as follows: He’s some type of musician (a rapper as it turns out – I had to look it up). He’s married to Kim Kardashian. He has a creative sense of humor when it comes to naming his children.
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