Extended Adolescence
Kerby Anderson For decades, sociologists have documented the phenomenon of extended adolescence. This is where someone who is an adult still acts like...
"Success Robots"
Penna Dexter In the aftermath of the recent college admissions scandal, the Wall Street Journal's Peggy Noonan issued a warning in a column she titled...
Constitutional Ignorance
Kerby Anderson Americans don’t know much about the Constitution, and it apparently is getting worse. Nine years ago, I wrote and recorded a commentary...
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 discu...
Credit Card Debt
Kerby Anderson Earlier this month the Federal Reserve reported that credit card debt for Americans hit $870 billion as of December. That makes it the...
Health Care Transparency
Kerby Anderson Last week I went to my doctor for a check-up and took my family out to dinner. My experience as a consumer was very different between t...
Two-Faith Nation
Kerby Anderson In a recent column, David French reminds us that not so long ago, “religious liberty lawyers were a quirky, somewhat cool, and tiny sub...
The Conservative Advantage
Kerby Anderson In a previous set of commentaries, I talked about the interview Nick Pitts and I did with Jonathan Haidt on his book, The Coddling of t...
Is Health Care a Right?
Kerby Anderson The political justification for more government intervention into America’s health care system is the claim that health care is a right...
Sweet Potatoes
Kerby Anderson For the last few decades, we have been scolded by everyone from radical environmentalists to simple back-to-nature advocates that we ha...
The Filibuster
Kerby Anderson Is it possible that sometime in the future, the US Senate will end the filibuster? When he was a Senate Majority Leader, Harry Reid end...
