Digital Surveillance
Kerby Anderson Americans are being watched digitally, and it doesn’t seem to matter whether they are innocent citizens, suspects, or criminals. That is the argument made in the brief filed by the Ruth...
Paper-Hanger Argument
Kerby Anderson Critical thinking is going to be more important in this age of confused thinking and logical fallacies. Kevin Williamson talked about what he called the “one-armed paper-hangers” argume...
China and Russia
Kerby Anderson The possibility of military confrontation between the US and China seems greater than in the last few decades. What might trigger that confrontation would be military action by China ag...
Kids Will Pay
Penna Dexter Panelists on the year-end edition of CBS’s “Face the Nation” were asked to identify what they think is the most under-reported story of the year. Correspondent Jan Crawford’s choice was “...
Overton Window
Kerby Anderson Often political articles are written by writers who assume the reader understands all the phrases they use. One of the phrases being used quite often is the “Overton Window.” The other...
Right Kind of Christian
Kerby Anderson More than a decade ago, Vanderbilt University issued an ultimatum to religious student groups that they must affirm the school’s nondiscrimination policy. The Christian group on campus...
Student Loan Debt
Kerby Anderson Charles Cooke tells a story about a friend who was taken on the 18th birthday and forced to take out $70,000 in student loans and then forced to go to college. At the end, he complained...
Deadly Delays
Kerby Anderson The latest news on the pandemic is troubling. Cases and COVID-19 deaths have increased. You might expect that the FDA would work even harder to push to get more effective drugs on the m...
COVID-Style Family Formation
Penna Dexter New research on family life shows that COVID-19 has exacerbated a growing divide in family formation, with higher-income, better-educated Americans more interested in getting married and...
Christian Giving
Kerby Anderson Yesterday I talked about charitable giving. Today I wanted to follow up by challenging us as Christians to consider giving even more than we do. Perhaps the best book on that subject wa...
