Hidden Enemy
Kerby Anderson Michael Youssef warns us that we face both external threats and internal threats in his book, The Hidden Enemy. We face an external threat from radical, political Islam. That does not...
Birthing People
Penna Dexter An absurd phrase is used in the White House’s 2021 budget proposal: “birthing people.” It appears in a section dealing with funding to reduce maternal mortality, which is worse among blac...
Learned Helplessness
Kerby Anderson According to Peter Van Buren, there is another virus loose in the land. He refers to it as “learned helplessness.” The previous pandemic and lockdown encouraged many Americans to adapt...
Infrastructure Bill
Kerby Anderson If you’ve watched congressional politics, you know the game. Pull together all sorts of funding projects that would never pass on their own, and then stick them in a bill with a title l...
Inflation Spike
Kerby Anderson Prices are increasing everywhere and so there is lots of talk about inflation. At the same time, there are other economists warning that a future oversupply of goods might bring a defla...
Cryptocurrency Politics
Kerby Anderson Cryptocurrency has been in the news lately, so it’s not surprising that Bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies have been a topic of discussion in Congress. In fact, Senator Cynthia Lummis (...
IRS Scandal?
Kerby Anderson The opening lines of a Wall Street Journal editorial observed, “That didn’t take long.” We aren’t even half a year into the Biden presidency, and already have an IRS scandal. ProPublica...
Inclusive Math
Penna Dexter The California State Board of Education has developed a curriculum that, if approved, is supposed to help attract “Black, Latinx, and Multilingual” people to mathematics. Here’s the plan:...
Age of Anxiety
Kerby Anderson Although the lockdowns have been ending at various times in different states, we are discovering that some people are scared to go back to normal life. Anna Russell writes about this in...
Media’s Memory Hole
Kerby Anderson In our digital world, the major media organizations are allowed to shove inconvenient facts and headlines from the past down “the memory hole.” In the book, 1984, the “memory hole” was...
Critics of CRT
Kerby Anderson Yesterday I talked about how even some liberal commentators are very concerned about the arguments for Critical Race Theory. It turns out that if you are a critic of Critical Race Theor...
Liberalism and CRT
Kerby Anderson Over the last few months, I have discussed many of the concerns with Critical Race Theory that come from a number of Christian leaders and philosophers. What is even more interesting is...
