Recent Viewpoints

Kerby Anderson Merrill Matthews was in my radio studio recently to make the case that the “Axis of Evil” is now bigger, bolder, and more evil than twenty years ago. Back in 2002, President George W. Bush identified three countries during the State of the Union address that he designated as the “Axis of Evil.” Those countries were Iraq, Iran, and North Korea. Merrill Matthews suggested that we now identify the countries that should be listed as part of the…

Kerby Anderson Doubt is a perennial concern for Christians. Every Christian has feelings of doubt at one time or another. Unfortunately, many Christians assume that doubt is the opposite of faith. They assume that wandering among the hard questions of faith will lead us further from a belief in God. Travis Dickinson is a professor of philosophy at Dallas Baptist University. His latest book is, Wandering Toward God: Finding Faith Amid Doubts and Big Questions. He was in my radio…

Kerby Anderson You have probably seen articles with provocative titles like: “How to Ruin Your Marriage in Seven Steps” or “How to Destroy the Country.” Recently, Victor Davis Hanson provided a list of things you would do “If You Really Wanted to Destroy the US.” First, you would surrender our prior energy independence. That would include reducing oil and gas leases along with canceling pipelines and energy exploration. Second, you would print trillions of dollars in the new currency at…

Kerby Anderson Can the state of Colorado tell a web designer what to say on a website? The answer to that question seems clear if you phrase it that way. But that really is the question brought before the Supreme Court. Lorie Smith owns 303 Creative, which is a Denver-based company that designs websites. She is also a Christian and would rather not design a website for same-sex couples. But the Colorado Anti-Discrimination Act defines her business as a public…

Penna Dexter Two decades after the Clinton FDA approved the abortion pill, a lawsuit has been filed asking for the removal of these drugs from the US market. Alliance Defending Freedom filed suit in federal court on behalf of four medical organizations and four doctors who had treated patients with these drugs. The Department of Health and Human Services is also named as a defendant. The lawsuit claims that the FDA lacked the authority to approve the two-drug regimen known…

Kerby Anderson To understand the elite media reaction to what Elon Musk is doing at Twitter, you need to go back six years. Fortunately, Michael Brendan Dougherty provides the important historical context. Brexit and the election of Donald Trump were two political shocks that hit the liberal media establishment in 2016. The message went out to leaders in social media to prevent any other shocking events from surfacing. Silicon Valley began talking about “disinformation” and expanded their departments dedicated to…

Kerby Anderson We face a battle for truth every day. That is why I was delighted to interview Dr. Jeff Myers (Summit Ministries) on his new book, Truth Changes Everything. His first four chapters focus on truth in various ways. One chapter explores the difference between the Truth viewpoint and the truths viewpoint. Another chapter tells ancient stories about truth. Most importantly, he provides a method to evaluate different views of truth and shows how non-biblical views of truth always…

Kerby Anderson Yesterday I referred to a speech for Hillsdale given last year by Christopher Rufo (Manhattan Institute). He provided a multi-decade description of how woke ideas made their way into various institutions. One of his prime examples is what he found at the Walt Disney Company. Two years ago, he filed a story about Disney forcing employees to engage in a critical race theory training program. It required its white employees to complete a “white privilege checklist,” and included…

Kerby Anderson If you want to understand the collapse of the Judeo-Christian consensus in this country, you need to look beyond individual programs and policies and take a more expansive view. In a speech for Hillsdale last year, Christopher Rufo (Manhattan Institute) provided a multi-decade description. The original leftist dream expected a rebellion from the working class in America. That never took place by the end of the 1960s. Leftists, therefore, abandoned their original plan of waging a revolution with…

Kerby Anderson You would think that I wouldn’t have to write about and talk about ideas that should be intuitively obvious. But we live in a world that has lost its moorings and often crashes on the shores of insanity. So let me state the obvious: US embassies should fly the US flag. Now, that wasn’t too hard, was it? By now you must wonder why I say that. It turns out that some staff at US embassies aren’t exactly…

Penna Dexter Negotiators at the latest United Nations climate conference are touting a “breakthrough agreement” emanating from their recent gathering in Sharm El Sheikh, Egypt. COS27 — the 27th UN climate conference — ended with commitments by the U.S. and other wealthy countries to compensate poor countries for the damage allegedly caused by climate change. According to the Wall Street Journal, the rationale for setting up this “loss and damage” fund is that “industrialization has increased temperatures and led to…