Trends in Society

April 7th, 2025
If I told you that a young man stabbed another young man to death for telling him that he was in the wrong seat, and then I told you that one young man in this altercation was white and the other black, and then I asked you to guess the race of the assailant, every single person would know the...
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April 7th, 2025
The battle over taxpayer funding for Planned Parenthood takes center stage at the Supreme Court in a South Carolina dispute over Medicaid providers.
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April 7th, 2025
‘Screening’ for gender and health during IVF means discarding embryonic human beings who don’t match parental preferences.
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April 7th, 2025
Elon Musk suggests humanity might be a transition phase for the development of advanced AI. His comments spark concerns about AI’s rapid growth and possible surpassing human intelligence. Musk urges regulatory oversight to prevent AI from becoming uncontrollable. The debate on AI’s future and its implications for humanity continues to intensify.
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April 4th, 2025
A 2018 Axios poll found that 61% of Democrats consider Republicans “racist/bigoted/sexist” versus 31% of Republicans who feel likewise about Democrats. One wonders whether “only” 61% of Democrats still think this way about Republicans.
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April 4th, 2025
Target is the latest in a string of retail giants who have taken a stance against the wildly unpopular diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) programs afflicting corporate America. Target’s move comes in the wake of similar action by other big-name companies, including Meta, Walmart, Amazon, and Tractor Supply Co., which have all scaled back their DEI policies in recent months....
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April 3rd, 2025
A great nation is not built simply on low marginal tax rates. Republicans need to start thinking a lot bigger and a lot deeper. American greatness starts with refocusing our politics on families and expectations that citizens take responsibility for themselves.
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April 2nd, 2025
The loss of filmmaker David Lynch last month led to a flood of much-deserved tributes.
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March 31st, 2025
A new survey finds that a plurality of Americans say the country has become less civil since the COVID-19 pandemic. That’s hardly surprising given the profane and boorish example set by President Trump.
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March 31st, 2025
Experts are taking swipes at higher ed for “failing to deliver on its implicit promise,” as millions of Gen Zers are locked out of the workforce.
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