Recent Viewpoints

Kerby Anderson Perhaps the most destructive policy during the pandemic was shutting down the schools. There is now significant research documenting what we already assumed. The experiment of requiring students to stay home and try to learn by computer has been a disaster. A new report by McKinsey & Co. quantifies the harm that was done. The research team examined the 2021 spring test results for 1.6 million elementary school students. They discovered that the school shutdowns harmed the educational…

Penna Dexter Wall Street Journal columnist William McGurn writes: “If the land of woke has a capital, it’s San Francisco.” But he writes, the city has now become “ground zero for a revolt by unwoke moms and dads.” An effort to recall three San Francisco school board members is well on its way to getting enough signatures to force the issue onto a ballot. Sixty-nine percent of parents surveyed support the effort. Even in near-socialist San Francisco, regular Americans are…

Kerby Anderson If the younger generation wants to know the keys to success, they need to follow the success sequence published by Bradford Wilcox and Wendy Wang. They say that the millennial generation is “more likely to flourish financially if they follow the “success sequence.” They say, you need to get at least a high school degree, work full-time, and marry before having any children, in that order. Their recent study at the American Enterprise Institute has the title, The…

Kerby Anderson What is the American Creed? That is a question David Gelernter asks in his book, America-Lite. He has been on my radio program to talk about his book and his op-ed that appeared in the Wall Street Journal. He is a fascinating individual. He received two degrees in classical Hebrew literature, but then became a professor of computer science at Yale University. Some have called him a “rock star” in the world of computing. You might also remember…

Kerby Anderson Back in 1996, Samuel Huntington wrote The Clash of Civilizations and the Remaking of World Order. He predicted the current conflict between Islam and the West. In my book, Understanding Islam and Terrorism, I show how this clash of civilizations has had a profound impact on missions. In the past, countries that were closed to the gospel tended to be communist countries. Even so, there was still a significant amount of Christian growth in countries behind the Iron…

Kerby Anderson America is a divided country. Os Guinness in his book, Last Call for Liberty, argues that the American republic is suffering its gravest crisis since the Civil War. He believes that the root of this disagreement is two different definitions of freedom. One view of freedom is embodied in “1776 and the American Revolution.” The other view arose in “1789 and the French Revolution.” The first can be found in the Declaration of Independence that owes its formulation to…

Kerby Anderson If you do an online search of the term “cultural Marxism,” you will see a Wikipedia entry that dismisses it as a “conspiracy theory” that is supposedly trying to take over Western culture. Actually it is the dominant form of Marxism in America and in much of the West today. Dr. Paul Kengor was on the Point of View radio talk show with me to talk about his recent article about cultural Marxism. He explained that cultural Marxism began…

Penna Dexter For the first time in more than 40 years, the President’s proposed federal budget calls for taxpayers to directly fund abortion. This is being done chiefly by eliminating the Hyde Amendment from spending proposals. The Hyde Amendment stipulates that Medicaid cannot pay for abortions and has been attached to federal spending legislation since 1976. This protection has been bipartisan. There have been battles. But, Congress — whether majority-Republican or majority-Democrat — has consistently applied the Hyde amendment and other related policies to federal…

Kerby Anderson You know things have gone from bad to worse when the co-founder of an Internet website is criticizing his own site as an enemy of democracy. I have been doing radio commentaries on the bias and inaccuracies in Wikipedia since 2008. But an interview with co-founder Larry Sanger illustrates why you shouldn’t depend on this Internet site for information. “Wikipedia is more one-sided than ever,” he explains. And he believes the site “has made itself into a kind…

Kerby Anderson Earlier this month I talked about a ruling from the IRS that denied tax-exempt status to the group Christians Engaged. The IRS argument was that the Bible teachings of the group aligned with views of Republicans. The IRS has reversed its decision, but the controversy surfaced some issues that need to be considered. When some members of Congress heard of the IRS decision to deny the request for tax-exempt status, they fired off a letter to the IRS…

Kerby Anderson Americans seem to be of two minds when polled about the current administration and the future of this country. For example, a Harvard/Harris poll reported a very high approval rating (59%) for President Biden and his administration. On the other hand, if you dig into the specifics you find that Americans are very concerned about some of the administration policies and the direction of this nation. Let’s look at two issues that both start with the letter “I.”…