By: Grady Means – thehill.com – May 5, 2020 The coronavirus has led to the greatest economic catastrophe in our lifetimes. Record losses in the market, record bankruptcies, record unemployment and, soon, record insolvency of local governments. This social and economic firestorm will lead to massive shifts in political alignment. The question is, which way will politics shift this year...

By: Joel B. Pollak – breitbart.com – May 4, 2020 The 2020 Pulitzer Prize for commentary was awarded Monday to Nikole Hannah-Jones for an essay in the New York Times that falsely claimed the American Revolution was fought primarily to protect slavery. The essay, titled “Our democracy’s founding ideals were false when they were written. Black Americans have fought to make them...

By: Scott Slayton – ChristianHeadlines.com – April 27, 2020 Christian author and teacher Josh McDowell recently shared his concerns that the COVID-19 lockdowns are going to fan the flames on two major issues already facing American culture: pornography addiction and loneliness. According to CBN News, McDowell expounds on these issues in a document on his website called “What Comes Next?” McDowell, author of...

By: Michael Brendan Dougherty – nationalreview.com – May 1, 2020 From the beginning of the COVID-19 crisis, it has been obvious that the fates of public health and the economy were tied together. Weeks before formalized “lockdown” policies began appearing, as news about the danger of the coronavirus spread, economic activity dramatically slowed. And it obviously won’t speed up again until the...

By: Dennis Prager – townhall.com – April 28, 2020 All my life, I have dismissed paranoids on the right (“America is headed to communism”) and the left (“It can happen here” — referring to fascism). It’s not that I’ve ever believed liberty was guaranteed. Being familiar with history and a pessimist regarding the human condition, I never believed that. But...

By: Robert Verbruggen –  nationalreview.com  – April 28, 2020 The coronavirus pandemic has thrust data-wranglers into a national spotlight they normally enjoy only in the runup to a presidential election. The death projections put forth by the University of Washington’s COVID-19 model have become the New York Times election needle of early to mid 2020: We all hang on their...

By: Douglas Groothuis, PhD – douglasgroothuis.com – March 20, 2020 With social media, anyone can post anything about anything. You are your own editor, publisher, and promoter. Everyone is an expert or can pose as one. Or perhaps the idea of an expert is dead. Since ethos is essential in persuasion, let me “speak as a fool” (as Apostle Paul put...

By: Annie Lowrey – theatlantic.com – April 13, 2020 Hello, lost generation. The Millennials entered the workforce during the worst downturn since the Great Depression. Saddled with debt, unable to accumulate wealth, and stuck in low-benefit, dead-end jobs, they never gained the financial security that their parents, grandparents, or even older siblings enjoyed. They are now entering their peak earning years in...

By: Dennis Prager – townhall.com – April 7, 2020 A statement widely attributed to the great British thinker G. K. Chesterton describes the modern period as perfectly as any single idea can: “When people stop believing in God, they don’t believe in nothing; they believe in anything.” One of these substitute gods has been nature. Indeed, of all the false...

By: Andrew Stuttaford – nationalreview.com – March 31, 2020 There should be no illusions that some default instinct towards freedom will stop Americans from succumbing to the intellectual temptations that the response to COVID-19 may send their way. Whether Britain’s COVID-19 lockdown will be worth what it will cost — a bill involving far more than just money — was and...