Transgender Culture War
Kerby Anderson You may have noticed that the contentious issues in the culture war seem to be coming faster and with more intensity. In a recent commentary, Kevin Williamson validates that observation...
Gerrymandering the Founders
Kerby Anderson For more than 200 years, candidates have been running for election in districts that were gerrymandered. The term comes from the name of the governor in Massachusetts. In 1812, Governor...
Liberal Intolerance
Kerby Anderson Last month, Nicholas Kristof stirred the political waters when he wrote an op-ed with the title, A Confession of Liberal Intolerance. The response to his piece led to a second one with...
Living at Home
Kerby Anderson A third of all young adults are single, broke, and living in their parent’s home. That’s how some are describing the latest results from the Pew Research Center study of the millennial...
Middle Class Shame
Kerby Anderson Neal Gabler, writing in The Atlantic, begins his essay with this disturbing statistic from a survey conducted by the Federal Reserve Board. The survey asked respondents how they would p...
Assessing the Left
Penna Dexter The spectacles created on football fields as players kneel, sit or raise fists during the national anthem are the latest evidence of the Left’s success in undermining institutions and tra...
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 a teenager. One classic example would be a 35-yea...
Better Jobs
Kerby Anderson You can ask millions of Americans if they would like a better job, and the resounding answer is yes. Unfortunately, many of them are unqualified for that job for reasons other than thei...
Restricting Free Speech
Kerby Anderson Many universities have been using various regulations and excuses to restrict free speech on campus. What may surprise many Americans is the fact that so many millennials believe restri...
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 about constitutional illiteracy. Back then I quo...
Politicizing Everything
Kerby Anderson I think it is fair to say that our culture has managed to politicize just about everything. The last two weeks of NFL football are merely the latest vivid illustration of how everything...
Dads Matter
Penna Dexter New national polling by the National Campaign to Prevent Teen and Unplanned Pregnancy shows that fathers have tremendous influence — more influence than mothers — over whether or not thei...
