Recent Viewpoints

Kerby Anderson For decades, the left has been willing to redefine terms to win a debate and convince the public of their views. Tomorrow I will provide some examples of that linguistic sleight-of-hand. But today, I want to talk about a new strategy. Leftists claim that the word “woke” and “wokeness” cannot be defined since so many politicians and commentators are using those terms in a negative way. Are some people using the term “woke” without understanding what it means?…

Kerby Anderson The headline in the Atlantic proclaims, “The Strongest Evidence Yet That an Animal Started the Pandemic.” It goes on to say that a new analysis of genetic samples from China appears to link the pandemic’s origin to raccoon dogs. This is, of course, an attempt to argue that the virus came from the wet market in Wuhan, China and not from the Wuhan Institute of Virology. As I mentioned two weeks ago in my last commentary on this…

Penna Dexter The Biden administration is set to revoke a federal regulation that defends religious liberty on college and university campuses. Christian legal groups were elated when, in 2020, Education Secretary Betsy De Vos put forward a rule stipulating that colleges that receive federal funding cannot deny religious organizations of any right, benefit, or privilege that is allowed to other organizations. The 2020 Open Inquiry Rule allows the federal government to withhold federal aid from any college or university that, simply because of the…

Kerby Anderson Recently I mentioned the name of Shane Pruitt on my radio program, and it reminded me of his book that we talked about a few years ago. We live in a world devoid of much common sense, and so it is worth mentioning his book, 9 Common Lies Christians Believe. You have heard most of them before. They are little phrases and one-liners that people say to encourage you. You might be going through some tough struggles, and…

Kerby Anderson Who are the luckiest people on this planet? Dennis Prager said on his radio program something progressives would never say. As a Jew, he says that American Jews are the luckiest Jews in Jewish history. He also says that about many other ethnic groups. He has mentioned that his father wrote his senior thesis on anti-Semitism in America. Nevertheless, he taught his two sons that they were the luckiest Jews in Jewish history. Dennis Prager still believes that,…

Kerby Anderson It’s time to talk about William Shakespeare. In previous commentaries, I have documented that he coined or invented about 1,500 English words we use today. I have also talked about the phrases we use today that come from him. When we use phrases like “love is blind” or to “catch a cold” or you have a “heart of gold” or “it’s all Greek to me,” we are referring to scenes in Shakespeare. Of course, I have also done…

Kerby Anderson Let me begin with a question. What do we often hear when a woke business does poorly financially or when a woke bank is shut down? The common cliché is “go woke, go broke.” I have used the phrase sometimes, and many other commentators use it to explain what happens when a company or a bank focuses too much attention on DEI or ESG or LGBTQ or climate change. But is the cliché true? Isn’t it possible that…

Kerby Anderson We unfortunately live in a world in which people often face no consequences for their immoral or criminal actions. Victor Davis Hanson reminds us of “The Price of Eliminating Consequences.” One example is shoplifting. Criminals have learned that some district attorneys will not prosecute them unless they steal significant amounts of goods. He talks about some remarkable online videos of a Good Samaritan confronting shoplifters and forcing them to drop their loads of pilfered goods. What you see…

Penna Dexter The recent release of the Centers for Disease Control’s bi-annual Youth Risk Behavior Survey has sparked discussion about the role social media plays in the substantial rise of mental illness among young people. Prominent researchers have conducted hundreds of studies on the influence of screen-based activities on teen mental health, mostly reporting only “small effects.” Mindful of social media’s drain on teens’ sleep, exercise and family time, social scientist and author Jonathan Haidt dug deeper. He recruited psychology…

Kerby Anderson Years ago, a doctor wrote an article entitled, “What’s Keeping David McCullough from Sleeping?” This noted historian and award-winning author had trouble sleeping because he was worrying about what was happening in the country. He was concerned that our leaders “have forgotten about history. They are unaware of the past, and uninterested in how they will be remembered in the future. Timothy Goeglein (who was special assistant to President Bush) opened his article with that story to remind…

Kerby Anderson Stephen Moore asks an important question: “What if federal workers never showed up for work and no one missed them?” He says that may be one of the greatest federal government scandals. Over the last three years, many hundreds of thousands of federal employees have been getting a full-time paycheck but have not been showing up for work. Just because they aren’t at their desks doesn’t mean they aren’t working. No doubt some are working just as hard….