By Aaron Zitner – wsj.com – March 27, 2023 The survey, conducted with NORC at the University of Chicago, a nonpartisan research organization, also finds the country sharply divided by political party over social trends such as the push for racial diversity in businesses and the use of gender-neutral pronouns. Some 38% of respondents said patriotism was very important to them,...

What happens when progress stops? That’s an important question in a country whose self-understanding is deeply tied to the idea of progress — material, technological, political and social.

By: Joseph Loconte – nationalreview.com – December 26, 2022 Conspiracy theories, nativism, militant religion, mob violence, a plot to topple the government — welcome to 17th-century England. English philosopher John Locke (1632–1704) lived through one of the most turbulent and divisive periods in British history. At the center of the storm, he believed, was a degraded form of Christianity. “All...

Some thoughts about our country as Christmas and the new year approach. In his Farewell Address to the nation in 1796, America’s departing first president, George Washington, observed: “It is substantially true that virtue or morality is a necessary spring to popular government.”

  Most Americans know something has gone terribly wrong—and very abruptly—with the United States. They are certain that our wounds are almost all self-inflicted. The current pathologies are not a result…

After decades of hostility to religion, the tide is finally turning and the future of religious freedom is brighter than ever before. God has opened an incredible door for all Americans to express their faith, and it is up to us to walk through it.

By Allen C. Guelzo – wsj.com – November 8, 2022 The news of the great battle at Gettysburg came to Abraham Lincoln by fits and starts. But when it was finally confirmed on the morning of July 4, 1863, that Robert E. Lee’s Confederate army had been forced to retreat, the tidings couldn’t have been more welcome. To a crowd of...

Daniel Patrick Moynihan could never have imagined how far down America might define deviancy when he penned his seminal essay Defining Deviancy Down.

2022 Texas Faith, Family & Freedom Gala Friday, November 11, 2022 6:00 PM CST – 10:00 PM CST The Westin Galleria Dallas 13340 Dallas Pkwy Dallas, TX 75240

Our Constitution is a restraining document on the powers of the federal government, not a free-for-all.