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...

By: Research Staff – pewsocialtrends.org – March 30, 2020 As the number of confirmed COVID-19 cases continues to rise and schools, workplaces and public gathering spaces across the United States remain closed, a new Pew Research Center survey finds that the coronavirus outbreak is having profound impacts on the personal lives of Americans in a variety of ways. Nearly nine-in-ten...

By: Peter Wolfgang – stream.org – March 22, 2020 It was 1978. I was eight years old. A second grader in Manchester, CT. My grandmother took me into downtown Hartford, because she wanted me to see the Hartford Civic Center. Not an interesting building to look at. No historical significance. Just a big building that hosted big events. The roof...

By: Matthew Continetti – freebeacon.com – March 20, 2020 A few months after September 11, 2001, David Brooks went back and looked at coverage of Pearl Harbor for an article in the Weekly Standard (“After Pearl Harbor,” December 10, 2001). What he saw intrigued him. A sense of unity and patriotism followed both surprise attacks. But media after Pearl Harbor had none...