The Washington Post loves to promote their reporting with the tagline, “democracy dies in darkness.” But in a published hit piece last month, designed to smear Alliance Defending Freedom (ADF),…
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Barbaric Norms: Hamas, Israel, and Just War
The despicable and horrendous attacks by Hamas against civilians last week, including beheading children and kidnapping the elderly, seems a throwback to some distant, barbaric past of human history. We…
The Hamas Terror Attacks on Israel Shock the West
John Stonestreet and Shane Morris discuss the barbarity of the Hamas attack on civilians in Israel and the worldview that brought us such barbarity. Sections 1 and 2 –…
Moral Clarity and the Attack on Israel
Princeton professor Robert P. George reports how students respond when he asks them “what their position on slavery would have been had they been white and living in the South…
The Rise of AI Girlfriends
One of the most telling statistics from the General Social Survey, is that Americans are having less sex now than they did in 1980s and 1990s. Young men especially have…
Pets Aren’t People
Recently, The Guardian published an oddly intriguing article entitled, “The Case Against Pets: Is It Time to Give Up Our Cats and Dogs?” Though arguing from the perspective of the…
Lessons From the Soviets about Sexual Morality
The Soviet Union was well known for rejecting so-called “bourgeois” morality in ways that led to rejecting reality. Economically this meant squashing human self-interest in favor of state control. So,…
The Religious Freedom Restoration Act
Imagine Congress was considering a bill to protect “religious liberty.” Let’s say the bill’s author openly admitted his intention was to “allow maximum religious freedom.” Maybe he says he’s concerned…
Live by Ideology, Die by Ideology
Two significant academic scandals from the past year underscore why the new book Critical Dilemma, written by Drs. Neil Shenvi and Pat Sawyer, is so timely and important. In my…
Biology is Religious Preaching?
A Texas professor has filed a lawsuit after he was allegedly fired for teaching that a person’s sex is determined by chromosomes. Dr. Johnson Varkey said the administration at St.…