How to Bring People to God and Religion
Reason-based—not faith-based—arguments and explanations for the moral greatness and the incomparable wisdom of the Bible are the only way to go.
First Principles
An American’s View of the Coronation
If the pageantry surrounding Charles III seemed quaintly anachronistic, it was also moving in an irreducibly pertinent way.
What’s Needed Now Is Not False ‘Compassion’ But Real Courage
People with real courage and compassion are willing to discuss facts, competing scientific theories, and real results. They don’t use political power to prevent the public from finding out the truth.
Men of the West, On the Cusp
This is the West. If we become the victims
there is nowhere else to turn.
there is nowhere else to turn.
Thoughts on the Death of My Dog
As much as we love our dogs—a genuine and deep love—we know we can get another dog, but we can never get another human being after losing a child or any other human being.
The Conservative Case for Getting Sued Into Oblivion
For all its faults, a high standard for defamation protects controversial conservative speech. We shouldn’t assist our enemies in chipping away at it.
Why A.I. Can Never Become God
The less diffuse the A.I. is, the more dangerous it is. If one man has it, all men should have it.
The Science™ Is Never Settled
As Albert Einstein understood, science is always underwritten by some philosophy or other.
Branding the ‘Mark of Kaine’ On Catholics
Fortunately for Senator Tim Kaine, the Catholic faith believes in contrition and redemption.
Perhaps We Should All Go Back to Church
Fewer and fewer Americans are attending religious services, and it shows.
Woke Liberalism?
Is James Lindsay’s woke understanding of liberalism one that James Madison and other founders of America’s constitutional order had in mind when they established the American republic?
The Worst Conspiracy of All
In our age of self-identifying, you too can be a victim of a conspiracy.
The Eternal Hope of God’s Paschal Promise
We have enjoyed the bountiful blessings of God, yet we have become like the Israelites after deliverance from Pharoah’s slavery.
How Qualified Immunity Leads To Weaponized Government
If emboldened and protected government officials can weaponize the government against someone like Trump, then they can do the same to you.
Standing Back to See More Clearly
No earthly cross is borne in vain, for the darkness of Good Friday is no match for the radiance of Easter Sunday.
Our Politics of Everything and Nothing
We have the worst of silliness united with the worst of ambition. Where politics is everywhere and everything, politics itself is the first casualty.
Our Constitutional Doom Loop
The struggle of being American and maintaining America is to always be conscious of and working to avoid our pending doom.
No Going Back
The old normal isn’t coming back without some new thinking about what structures will reinvigorate our old principles.
Do Conservatives Oppose Change?
A generation that deprives the next generation of Beethoven, Shakespeare, and Da Vinci is committing a combination of child neglect and civilizational suicide.
Who Says That Chance Rules in the Affairs of Men?
Our foresight is always an adventure, practiced at the pleasure of the unpredictable.