Recent Viewpoints

Kerby Anderson Earlier this month, Victor Davis Hanson wrote about “The Decline and Fall of Our So-called Degreed Experts.” I believe we should trust people who are experts in science and engineering, because their success or failure is easier to measure. But the political pundits and so-called experts in public policy are often wrong. He provides five examples. First, we were told that tariffs would destroy the economy and lead to a “downward, if not recessionary, spiral.” He pointed to…

Penna Dexter Early in her tenure as U.S. Secretary of Education, Linda McMahon began working herself out of a job. Last week she got a boost from the Supreme Court. The Wall Street Journal’s headline was “High Court Paves the Way to Weaken Education Department.” The Court lifted a lower court ruling that blocked staff layoffs at the Department as well as President Trump’s March Executive Order, significantly cutting the education bureaucracy. The Journal’s use of the term weaken sounds…

Kerby Anderson Jonathan Turley wrote a strongly worded warning about the rise of socialism in America. The George Washington law professor reminds us that during the Cold War, Soviet communists referred to American liberals as “useful idiots.” He observes the same mindset in what he calls “a new generation of armchair revolutionaries.” He says New York mayoral candidate Zohran Mamdani personifies this new movement. Part of the reason for this rise is the fact that “young people lack any memory…

Kerby Anderson Owning a home has been a foundational principle of the American Dream. Unfortunately, fewer Americans can own a home. The topic surfaced during a speech Tucker Carlson gave at a recent Turning Point USA conference. He said that “economics really matter” not because the rich are getting richer but because “everyone else is getting poorer.” He rejected the idea of measuring the economy by citing our GDP. Instead, he proposed another measure. “My measure is really simple. I…

Kerby Anderson The Bible teaches that we have a soul that is separate from our body, and that would imply we also have a mind separate from our brain.  Neuroscientist Dr. Michael Egnor and Denyse O’Leary (co-author of The Spiritual Brain) were on my radio program and provided evidence for the mind and soul in their book, The Immortal Mind. Nearly fifty years ago, Probe Ministries published the book, The Mysterious Matter of Mind, that documented the brain studies at…

Kerby Anderson Radical elements on the street are making radical demands of Democrats. Earlier this month, Axios interviewed more than two dozen House Democrats. They related a “growing anger” among the Democratic base. The lawmakers reported that at townhall meetings and in individual meetings, activists demanded more violence. They were told that what they were doing to confront the Trump administration and ICE agents was not enough. The activists even said, “There needs to be blood to grab the attention…

Kerby Anderson When the Supreme Court rules 9-0 on a case, you should pay attention. In this case, it is law enforcement that needs to pay attention. The High Court ruled that the federal government can be held accountable for a botched SWAT raid performed by the FBI. The SWAT team raid in question occurred during the middle of the night. Armed FBI agents in tactical gear deployed a flashbang grenade and held the couple at gunpoint before realizing they…

Penna Dexter The United Nations is notorious for pushing radical gender ideology on member nations, even those who hold to the biological definitions of male and female. Thankfully, the top UN human rights official for women has a refreshing message for those traditional — and often religious— countries. Reem Alsalem, UN Special Rapporteur on Violence Against Women and Girls, recently presented a report to the UN Human Rights Council calling on governments to use sex-based categories in their language, their data and their policy…

Kerby Anderson Mark David Hall is the author of the book, Did America Have a Christian Founding? He came to my radio studio six years ago to talk about his book. More recently, he was invited to speak to the first National Religious Liberty Commission meeting last month. Because of that, I thought I would go back and look at his book again. Early in the book, he suggests how to think about the founding of this country. One possibility…

Kerby Anderson A recent issue of World magazine asks, “Can Classical Liberalism Be Saved?” We are talking about classical liberalism that began with the Magna Carta and is found in its purest expression in the U.S. Constitution. Jenny Lind Schmitt attended the Alliance for Responsible Citizenship Conference and wrote about it in this article. She heard from speakers like Arthur Brooks, Os Guinness, and U.S. House Speaker Mike Johnson (all who have been on my radio program to talk about…

Kerby Anderson As we enter the 250th anniversary of this country, you would assume that Americans would have pride in their country. But if you saw the recent Gallup poll, you would be discouraged. US adults were asked how proud they were to be an American. Those who were extremely proud or very proud hit a record high after the 9/11 attack on this country. By contrast, we hit a record low in June. If you dig deeper into the…