Recent Viewpoints

Kerby Anderson The impeachment trial may now be history, but the Mueller investigation and the impeachment investigation and trial have set new norms for our federal government. Last month Victor Davis Hanson wrote about this in what he called “The New Post-Trump Constitution.” Here are just a few of them. First, private presidential phone calls will be leaked and printed in the media. This is how the impeachment inquiry started, and it seems likely that this will happen again and…

Kerby Anderson The Attorney General was in the news again because he was talking about the importance of religion in American life. You may remember that William Barr gave a speech at Notre Dame arguing that religious commitment provides the source of virtue and moral discipline necessary for self-government. Although that is true and was considered essential by the founders of this country, there were many secularists who criticized his speech. That was not surprising since he even mentioned in…

Kerby Anderson Last month the Supreme Court allowed the Trump administration to enforce a rule concerning foreign nationals. A separate opinion raised important questions about how one federal judge can stop the government by merely ordering an injunction. The new rule would deny green cards to foreign nationals who use taxpayers-funded social services. As you might imagine, the decision was controversial as evidenced by the fact that it fell along typical 5-4 liberal-conservative lines. The Immigration and Nationality Act dictates…

Penna Dexter A pro-life state law authored by a Louisiana Democrat is set to be heard at the United States Supreme Court on March 4th. In June Medical Services v. Gee, the abortion industry is challenging legislation requiring that any doctor performing abortions have admitting privileges at a hospital located within thirty miles of the facility at which those abortions take place.  State Representative Katrina Jackson, who has since been elected state senator, authored  Act 620, which simply requires that…

Kerby Anderson Will robots destroy jobs and put all of us in the unemployment lines? Some futurists seem to be predicting this scenario. Jay Richards disagrees. He says it is an old argument that is new again. He is the author of the book, The Human Advantage: The Future of American Work in an Age of Smart Machines. One report predicts that; “The future of robots appears to be a dystopian march to rising inequality, falling wages, and higher unemployment.”…

Kerby Anderson Here’s a trivia question. Why was the massive flu epidemic in 1918 called the Spanish flu? The pandemic originated in France and other countries. But news of it was censored during World War I. The pandemic only received greater press attention when it arrived in Spain in November. Spain was not involved in the war and had not imposed any wartime censorship. During that same time, the US government also tried to play down the Spanish flu lest…

Kerby Anderson Members of a very popular South Korean boy band were denied draft exemptions even though it would reduce revenue to the country. Why? Because there aren’t enough boys available to serve in the military. Lyman Stone uses this illustration to highlight the extremely low birth rate in South Korea. But that country is just one of many examples of what has become a global birth dearth. Fertility rates have been declining in all the developed countries of the…

Kerby Anderson How many times have we heard as we head into an election season, that this will be the most important election in our lifetime? Reid Wilson, writing for The Hill, is not given to hyperbole but sets forth some very persuasive reasons why the 2020 election will be the most important. First, the Democratic Party is likely “to nominate the most liberal candidate ever to carry the party’s mantle.” He explains that even the moderate candidates are staking…

Kerby Anderson The Supreme Court recently heard oral arguments in a case that might eventually end the impact of the Blaine amendment. You might ask: What is the Blaine amendment? It was a failed attempt to amend the US Constitution so that government aid could not be provided to schools with a religious affiliation. Even though it was never added to the Constitution, three-fourths of the states adopted similar provisions in their state constitutions. Originally, these were proposed to limit…

Penna Dexter As the new year began, USA Today published a piece by two respected scholars on marriage. Dr. Ryan Anderson of Heritage Foundation and Professor Robbie George of Princeton outline the erosion of marriage over the past decade. They start with Barack Obama’s affirmation that “marriage unites a man and woman.” They take their readers through activist court rulings redefining marriage on to state ballot initiatives upholding marriage as between one man and one woman.  They describe President Obama’s…

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 Point of View radio talk show with me to talk about his recent article about cultural Marxism. He explained that cultural Marxism began about a…