March 25, 2024

Faith and Donald Trump

In case you haven’t been paying attention, “Christian Nationalism” is the big media bugaboo just now. Secular news people (the word “secular,” covers most people in the journalistic trades) are convinced that, shoul...

April 14, 2023

How the Left Uses Transgenders

The Soviet Union was a huge and diverse empire. It was also the control center of the International Communist Movement. It embraced hundreds of ethnic communities, national identities, and racial groups. It was the very essence of multiculturalism. ...

July 30, 2020

America's constitutional bedrock

Last week was spent vacationing in South Dakota with my family. One of our stops was Mt. Rushmore. Like all the hundreds of tourists there, we gazed up at the towering faces of George Washington, Thomas Jefferson, Abraham Lincoln, and Theodore Roosev...

March 9, 2017

Sail away

There was a time when liberals had a sense of humor, when they enjoyed ironic wordplay, when they recognized that the reality of malice or evil could be suggested subtly but powerfully by a wry expression. Remember that old Randy Newman song, ...

December 24, 2016

The Spirit of Generosity

Christmas has become a complete religious/commercial mashup. From post-Thanksgiving “Black Friday” on, it seems we’re in a virtual orgy of materialism. But the Salvation Army bell ringers I’ve seen in front of Kroger over t...

October 26, 2016

All the News That Fits

You’re probably appalled at the American media’s shameless whoring for Hillary Clinton, asking yourself why they would so thoroughly debase their much-touted journalistic ethics. President Obama has answered that question. As reported ...

September 10, 2016

No Safe Space from Fairness

It’s back-to-school time. Students are returning to campus, and intellectual inquiry is ramping up once again. So let’s try a little thought experiment… Let’s say I’m about to start my senior year at Average State Un...

July 29, 2016

No Secular Option

The beheading of French priest, Fr. Jacques Hamel, along with all the other recent terrorist atrocities, demonstrates once more that we are truly in a civilizational war. It’s not a war of all Christians against all Muslims. But it is a m...

April 3, 2015

A Kind of Moral Rape

Let us assume, for the moment, that individuals and organizations opposed to Indiana’s new Religious Freedom Restoration Act are well intentioned and pursuing their protests in good conscience. That may be more credit than most of them wou...

November 24, 2014

Cosby's Last Act

I came to Temple University several years after Bill Cosby. But the prominence he had by then achieved as a standup comic, along with the success of his comedy albums and the hit TV series, “I Spy” (in which he costarred with Robert Culp ...

November 6, 2014

What Comes Next?

So… the Republicans did it. The stars were aligned. The polls proved right. The elephant rampaged through both houses of Congress on Tuesday. So what happens next? This is a moment when a meaningful change could be made to our nation...

October 24, 2014

We All Still Live in Mayberry

This fall, MeTV, the channel that runs “classic” television series of the ’60s through ’80s, is featuring “The Andy Griffith Show.” In a recent episode, Opie feels left out because Andy has been focusing so much...

October 17, 2014

Ben Affleck Explains Islam

The ongoing debate over the nature of Islam and whether the radicals who’ve dubbed themselves the Islamic State represent authentic Muslim teaching got loud recently when a shouting match erupted on Bill Maher’s HBO talk show, “Real...

July 27, 2014

The Faith of Atheists

My parents’ marriage was mixed, religiously, and while neither was active in their faith, the differences were a source of conflict. Their solution: negligible church participation. And so I received very little faith formation as a child ...

April 20, 2014

Why was Jesus Crucified?

Despite its status as the holiest day on the Christian calendar, Easter has never had an impact on American life that comes close to the annual social and economic supernova of Christmas. That’s probably because of Easter’s limited potent...

March 2, 2014

Human Nature on Campus

It’s always gratifying to see someone on the left openly acknowledge how Progressives really feel about freedom. Writing in the Harvard Crimson, Sandra Y. L. Korn (Harvard Class of 2014) has called for the abolition of academic freedom, a pr...

December 10, 2013

Stop Being so Ungracious about 'Merry Christmas!'

It's that wonderful time of year once more when sugarplum fairies are dancing and angry secularists are out looking for a fight. Indeed, it just wouldn't seem like our annual feast of love and joy if somebody didn't have his nose out of joint over th...