Recent Viewpoints

Kerby Anderson In a recent interview, James Lavish (Hedge Fund Investment Manager) explained the economic dilemma facing our leaders. First, he laments that so many in media and the government keep promoting that the economy is doing fine when the average American consumer isn’t doing well. Only the people who own assets are doing well. He has observed how hard it is for so many American to go to the grocery store and put healthy food on the table. He…

Kerby Anderson A recent YouTube video describes a pattern in history that has destroyed three global superpowers in the last 500 years. They were Spain, Britain, and the Soviet Union. Today, the U.S. is following a similar pattern. In 1590, Spain was the richest empire on earth. Spain controlled half the world’s gold and silver. Spain’s military dominated Europe. Their currency was accepted everywhere. Yet within 80 years, the Spanish government was bankrupt. In 1914, Britain ruled the largest empire…

Kerby Anderson Allen West argues in a recent commentary that, “We have come to a time when we should have a serious discussion about the roles, duties, responsibilities, and accountability of judges in our Constitutional Republic.” He explains that judges are appointed, or elected, to a position where they are to correctly judge the law. He also reminds us that we read about judges in the Old Testament. Sampson was a judge who was also a warrior. Deborah was not…

Kerby Anderson A recent issue of The Spectator attempted to tackle the difficult questions surrounding artificial intelligence. The opening editorial was appropriately titled, “The real threat of AI is spiritual.” It provided disturbing quotes from two Silicon Valley experts. Peter Thiel was asked whether he wanted the human race to endure. After a long awkward pause, he merely said, “I don’t know” and then acknowledged that “there’s so many questions implicit in this.” Marc Andreessen imagined a future where people…

Penna Dexter Our universities have been moving leftward for decades. William F. Buckley warned of the drift in his 1951 book, GOD AND MAN AT YALE. Conservatives advocating reform have mostly been ignored. Families who want to avoid the prevailing leftist indoctrination can seek out Christian colleges, or schools — like Hillsdale College — that refuse federal funding. But most chose based upon prestige, family legacies, or scholarship offers. Many parents were unaware of how socialists’ “long march through the…

Kerby Anderson An article about Wikipedia began like this: “I launched the site in 2001. Today’s it’s been captured by anonymous editors who manipulate articles to fit their ideological biases. Here’s my plan to fix it.” It was written by Larry Sanger, who says “Wikipedia was founded on an idealistic mission to provide the world’s information for free.” The evidence for left-wing bias can be found, for example, in the platform’s list of reliable sources: MSNBC, The Nation, Mother Jones,…

Kerby Anderson In this commentary, I want to explain an interesting business pattern that developed in China. It illustrates what many have called “the catfish effect.” What is the catfish effect? Live sardines are more expensive than frozen sardines and more valuable because they have better flavor and texture. One ship in Norway was always able to bring sardines home because the captain put a catfish in the tank. The sardines had to keep swimming to avoid this predator. The…

Kerby Anderson In his op-ed in The Hill, Dr. Merrill Matthews notes that there is a growing pushback against the practice of transgender surgery on minors. And the Supreme Court is even questioning state-level efforts to silence counselors who raise concerns about the practice. He reminds us of how public opinion changed about lobotomy surgeries. These were done by severing the connection between the frontal lobe and other parts of the brain. They were widely practiced in the 1930s and…

Kerby Anderson Jonathan Turley reminds us that roughly seventy years ago, FBI Director J. Edgar Hoover famously declared, “There is no organized crime in America.” He said this even though there was abundant evidence of the mafia at the time. We have the same willful blindness today about Antifa. For example, Representative Dan Goldman (D-NY) has been seen in numerous interviews denying the existence of Antifa and even challenged anyone to “name one member of Antifa.” Former House Judiciary Chair…

Kerby Anderson Democrats and Republicans don’t agree on much these days, but there is one significant area of bipartisanship: the AI threat. There appears to be agreement and common ground on that issue. One illustration was a 99-1 U.S. Senate vote against a proposed moratorium on AI regulation. Both sides believe some aspect of artificial intelligence needs urgent regulation. One bipartisan bill would prevent AI from using the voice and likeness of any individual without authorization. Another concern came from…

Penna Dexter In an article published in the journal First Things, Jonathan Sanford, President of the University of Dallas, described a concept that rings true for me, having just returned from a three week-trip to Italy. Dr. Sanford writes; A pilgrim differs from a tourist in that the former seeks meaning, not diversion. Our students, prepared in advance, arrive at historical and religious sites ready to see them within a larger story: the unfolding of Western civilization and the Christian…