Go To Church
Penna Dexter In a recent sermon, my pastor declared: “The most significant decision we make every week is whether we will go to church.” Church attendance is declining as the culture secularizes. Our...
Big Government
Kerby Anderson On one of our radio programs, one of the guests argued that the government had grown so big that it's unrealistic for anyone to manage it. His comment reminded me of a commentary I did...
Countermarch
Kerby Anderson Perhaps you have heard the call for leftists to engage in “the long march through institutions.” The phrase was popularized by the radical German activist Herbert Marcuse who was quoti...
Trump’s Economic Challenges
Kerby Anderson Yesterday I talked about some of the political challenges that President Trump, his administration, and Congress face this year. Today, I want to talk about the economic challenges. As...
Trump’s Political Challenges
Kerby Anderson During the 2024 presidential campaign, I did several commentaries on the challenges the next president would face in 2025. Donald Trump is now the president, and his administration and...
California Blameshifting
Penna Dexter Who or what is to blame for the scale of the wildfires that destroyed massive swaths of Los Angeles this winter? Some politicians point to climate change and fossil fuels. Two California...
End of Everything
Kerby Anderson Eight months ago, I wrote about the book, The End of Everything: How Wars Descend into Annihilation, written by Victor Davis Hanson. In his book, he provides four historical examples:...
Dart-Throwing Chimps
Kerby Anderson Earlier this month, I talked about the three hardest words for people to say. They are: “I don’t know.” It is especially hard for so-called experts to say those words. Often what we th...
Politicized Schools
Kerby Anderson Stanley Kurtz is a senior fellow with the Ethics and Public Policy Center. In a recent column, he asks, “Are Schools Really Politicized?” Most of us know that the answer to that questi...
Gaza Bombshell
Kerby Anderson President Trump is always full of surprises, but the biggest surprise so far was his bombshell announcement that the U.S. would take over the rebuilding of Gaza. This is not going to h...
Presidential Authority
Kerby Anderson Progressive activists often talk about the “long march through institutions.” For the last few weeks, we have seen a “fast sprint through institutions” by President Trump, followed by...