We shouldn’t let the perfect be the enemy of the good. While we wait for Republicans in Congress to finally gin up the courage to fix the problem, there’s a lot that Elon Musk can do in the meantime to help. Continue Reading »
Musk is not any kind of conservative, and so the tentative cheers that have greeted his apparent routing of the Twitter board might more wisely have been postponed until we see what the new Twitter may look and sound like. Continue Reading »
The news that Baylor University has officially chartered Prism, an LGBT student organization on campus, marks an important moment in Christian higher education in the USA. Continue Reading »
A meeting between the current Bishop of Rome and the current Patriarch of Moscow would not have been a meeting of two religious leaders. It would have been a meeting between a religious leader and an instrument of Russian state power. Continue Reading »
Macron was legitimately elected in the sense that there was no fraud to account for his victory, no constitutional rules broken. As representative of the people’s hopes or wishes, Macron has little legitimacy; and yet he has immense power. Continue Reading »
Without teachers to pass on the arts of civilization, human life becomes deeply disoriented and we lose our sensitivity to the most refined, worthwhile pleasures. Continue Reading »
We desperately need more artists like William Kurelek to expose the carnage beneath the surface of our society, and to begin a conversation on why it must end. Continue Reading »