Recent Viewpoints

Kerby Anderson At a time when we are experiencing significant inflation, Jeff Booth argues in his book, The Price of Tomorrow, that we should be seeing deflation. His argument is simple: Technology is deflationary. That is the nature of technology. Think of how much a flat-screen TV cost when it first hit the market. What does it cost today? One example he uses is his first cell phone (which was a Motorola 8000). “It had thirty minutes of talk time…

Kerby Anderson The acronym DEI is found in business and the academy. It is now also being used in medical schools. DEI stands for diversity, equity, and inclusion. A new report of the top medical schools’ documents that DEI is being used to weed out applicants who aren’t firmly within the latest woke metric. The nonprofit, Do No Harm, conducted an analysis of medical school application processes and concluded that these schools were raising an additional entry barrier on top…

Kerby Anderson The other day I came across a shocking statistic. Lee Burdette Williams says, “About three million first-time college students will soon be arriving on campus—most of them coming directly from high school. About one million of them won’t make it through their first year or return as sophomores.” She concludes that “this attrition is financially and emotionally devastating for families” and it is also “destabilizing for colleges.” Why is this happening? Many of these departures are financial. Higher education…

Kerby Anderson “American higher education is the envy of the world, and it’s also failing our students on a massive scale.” This is how Senator Ben Sasse begins his informative article in The Atlantic with the hopeful title, “How to Really Fix Higher Ed.” He says, “Rather than wiping the slate clean on student debt, Washington should take a hard look at reforming a broken system.” He acknowledges that higher education in this country is a national treasure, but at the…

Kerby Anderson As college students arrive on campus, they confront the “sticker shock” of college tuition. Although lots of comments have been made about President Biden’s plan for student loan debt forgiveness, the real problem has been the rising cost of college tuition. Notice two things are not said by the administration and by those who support student loan forgiveness. No one is saying that the decision won’t cost taxpayers very much. The University of Pennsylvania Wharton School concluded that…

Penna Dexter In her new book, The Case Against the Sexual Revolution, British journalist Louise Perry employs facts, figures, human nature, and common sense to argue that the sexual revolution, and the “free sexual playing field” it gave rise to, have been terrible for women. Ms. Perry is not a religious conservative. She states: “It’s precisely because I’m a feminist that I’ve changed my mind on sexual liberalism.” Feminists told women that the availability of birth control and abortion meant…

Kerby Anderson As we look through the corridors of history, we see the rise and fall of nations. The symptoms of societal decline are well known. Governments spend too much and debase their currency. Leaders get decadent and patriotism declines. Families fracture, and eventually the society falls apart. A nation in decline fails to protect its citizens. One of the important functions of a society is to protect the weak from those who intend them harm. Not only is crime…

Kerby Anderson Political campaigns often bring out the worst in gubernatorial candidates, but we are hearing proclamations from governors and former governors attacking the voters. The current campaigns in New York and Florida are just a few examples. The predicate in New York came from the former New York governor Andrew Cuomo. Back in 2014, he made it clear that people with certain political views were free to leave the state. What were these toxic views, according to him? That…

Kerby Anderson After Congress passed the so-called Inflation Reduction Act, we heard all sorts of promises that only the very rich would be audited. The billions of dollars allocated to the Internal Revenue Service for compliance efforts supposedly would not be used to audit the middle class. Jared Bernstein, who serves on the Council of Economic Advisors, reassured everyone that the money “will not be spent on increasing audits of anybody making less than $400,000 a year.” Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen assured us that the…

Kerby Anderson When I talk about the polarization in this country, I am often asked why is there so much hostility against Christians? We are often the greatest source of ministry and encouragement in the community. In his book, Christians in a Cancel Culture, Joe Dallas devotes a chapter to this question about hostility toward Christians. You can summarize his excellent discussion with three words that begin with the letter “C.” The first is convenience. Whenever truth is told, someone…

Kerby Anderson Today is Labor Day. Although this day was set aside to honor trade and labor organizations, I believe it is a day when Christians can also consider how they view work and labor. The Bible has quite a bit to say about how we are to view work, and so I devote part of a chapter in my book, Making the Most of Your Money, to a biblical view of work. First, we are to work unto the Lord in…