Canceling Race Theory
Kerby Anderson When the Trump Administration decided to cancel federal training sessions on Critical Race Theory, you knew there would be criticism. What may be surprising is how easy it might be to...
Protecting Abortion Survivors
Penna Dexter Recently President Trump addressed the National Catholic Prayer Breakfast, held online this year. To the surprise of attendees, he said these words: “Today I am announcing that I will be...
Google and Big Tech
Kerby Anderson On our radio program, we provided a link to a video produced by the Internet Accountability Project with the provocative title “Google is Evil.” Watch the video and come to your own co...
Moral Compass
Kerby Anderson Dennis Prager had to admit that he had been wrong. All of his life, he has said that the left’s moral compass is broken. He has concluded that “in order to have a broken moral compass,...
Princeton Bias
Kerby Anderson Radical students and professors on college campuses claim that their schools participate in systemic racism. In order to appease these radicals, college presidents have been all too wi...
Masks and the Experts
Kerby Anderson Throughout this pandemic, we have been told to trust the experts. But you have probably concluded from the many public statements, that not all the medical experts agree. And the easies...
Missing Ballots
Kerby Anderson Our national election is just five weeks away, and yet many news stories illustrate that there are problems on the horizon. Much of the rhetoric focuses on the possibility of election...
Ginsburg’s Hubris
Penna Dexter When President Bill Clinton announced his nomination of Ruth Bader Ginsberg to the U.S. Supreme Court in 1993, he said she “cannot be called a liberal or a conservative. She has proved he...
Culture of Contempt
Kerby Anderson We are a divided country, but it may be worse than we imagined. An article in The Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences discussed what is called “motive attribution asymmetry....
The Conservative Advantage
Kerby Anderson In a previous set of commentaries, I talked about the interview we did with Jonathan Haidt on his book, The Coddling of the American Mind. Then I saw an essay that quoted his earlier b...
Senate Sickness
Kerby Anderson The US Senate as an institution is sick and dysfunctional. Senator Ben Sasse, playing the role of physician, provides both an accurate diagnosis and recommended cures. But I fear that...
Racial Disparities
Kerby Anderson On my radio program recently, one of my guests mentioned that it is nearly always assumed that any racial disparities are due to racism. When there is a significant difference between...
