Recent Viewpoints

Kerby Anderson Earlier this month, Jim Geraghty wondered if the killing of Paul Kessler would start a national conversation. You probably don’t even understand his question, which is an illustration of the fact that the media usually determines what event should spark a national conversation. Paul Kessler is the 69-year-old Jewish man who died of a head injury at an event in Thousand Oaks, California. The Los Angeles Times reported the incident that occurred when pro-Israeli and pro-Palestinian protestors were…

Kerby Anderson Bari Weiss is Jewish and the author of the book, How to Fight Anti-Semitism. She noticed something 20 years ago when she was a college student and started writing about an ideology that seemed to contradict everything she had been taught since she was a child. She admits she may not have perceived the nature of this ideology if it had not been for the fact that she was a Jew. She noticed that she was being written…

Penna Dexter The United States Supreme Court recently set out a “Code of Conduct” to “gather in one place the ethics rules and principles that guide the conduct of the members of the court.” All nine justices signed it. They have done this in response to pressure from groups on the Left who want Congress to put into place “ethics” requirements for Supreme Court Justices. Enacting such legislation would intensify political accusations against justices and bring endless recusal fights in…

Kerby Anderson The cancel culture has been around for many years. John Stossel gives a new perspective to it in his interview with 23-year-old Rikki Schlott. She is the co-author of the new book, The Cancelling of the American Mind. If the title sounds familiar, it should. Her co-author was the co-author of the earlier book, The Coddling of the American Mind. As a college student, she felt she had to hide her conservative views. She says she was even…

Kerby Anderson Each year, we take time from our busy lives to celebrate a day of Thanksgiving. Though many holidays have become secular celebrations, this holiday still retains much of its historic religious overtones. A day of Thanksgiving was set aside by the Pilgrims who founded Plymouth Colony. Life was hard in the New World.  Half of the Pilgrims died in the first terrible winter. After the first harvest was completed, Governor William Bradford proclaimed a day of Thanksgiving and…

Kerby Anderson Thanksgiving is tomorrow, and I suspect that you are doing lots of things to get ready for this special day. Let me suggest you add one more item to your to-do list. Visit our website and download a copy of my Thanksgiving Quiz. Thanksgiving is a wonderful time to gather as a family, but I also believe it can be a great time to teach our children and grandchildren about America’s godly heritage. I created this short quiz…

Kerby Anderson I recently saw a list from the History Channel about seven inventions during the Gilded Age that changed the world. It reminded me of a commentary I did a dozen years ago based upon Mark Steyn’s book, After America. He had us imagine what it would be like to bring your great-grandfather living in the late 19th century to an ordinary American home in 1950. The poor gentleman would be astonished. This home is full of mechanical contraptions….

Kerby Anderson Matthew Solomson argues that “Social Justice Is Injustice.” His op-ed attempts to explain why we see so many young people supporting the terrorist actions of Hamas. They have been taught in school an inverted view of justice. He reminds us that, “When federal judges take the oath of office, they say: “I will administer justice without respect to persons and do equal right to the poor and to the rich.” This is a biblical principle that is part…

Penna Dexter The recent off-year election was not a good one for the pro-life movement. One big disappointment was the vote on Ohio Issue 1 which creates a constitutional right to abortion in what has been a pro-life state. The 57 to 43 percent vote, in favor of Issue 1, opens the door for legal late-term abortions and the negation of parental rights and health and safety protections, which Ohio pro-lifers have worked for decades to attain. In 2019, Ohio…

Kerby Anderson I have been reading the latest book from Michael Lewis, Going Infinite which is about Sam Bankman-Fried (often referred to as SBF). Lewis was thinking about the topic of his next book when he took SBF on a hike in the Berkeley Hills. He knew he had the subject for his book when SBF told him that his financial goal was “infinity dollars.” Lewis had unprecedented access to a crypto king worth billions who walked around in cargo…

Kerby Anderson The world has always been a dangerous place. But those dangers are accentuated due to erroneous assumptions about war and foreign policy. Jakub Grygiel highlights three foreign policy illusions. “The first is that leaders are responsible for wars and these countries are our rivals only because of their bad leaders.” One example can be seen in the statement by Secretary of State Antony Blinken, who placed the blame of the Russia-Ukraine war on Vladimir Putin. “One man chose…