Recent Viewpoints

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…

Kerby Anderson Yesterday I talked about democracy and our republic by examining the principles set forth in Abraham Lincoln’s Gettysburg Address. Today I would like to examine a recent tweet by President Biden about democracy. “Democracy is more than a form of government,” he wrote. “It’s a way of being. A way of seeing the world. A way that defines who we are, what we believe, and why we do what we do.” In a recent Breakpoint commentary, John Stonestreet…

Kerby Anderson At a time when politicians are talking about threats to democracy, it might be worthwhile to consider what democracy really is. But first a disclaimer: America is a republic, not a democracy. Professor Allen Guelzo recently wrote about “Lincoln’s Vision of Democracy.” After the battle of Gettysburg, Lincoln was asked to participate in the dedication of a national cemetery in that town. The featured orator was Edward Everett, but the short 272-word speech by Abraham Lincoln is the…

Kerby Anderson Back in September, a 22-year-old woman named Mahsa Amini died in custody after being arrested by the Iranian morality police. The news sparked a protest from Iranian women not only in that country but in other places around the world. I have discussed these protests with many of my radio guests, including Rex Rogers of SAT-7, Hermoz Shariat of Iran Alive Ministries, and former secretary of state Mike Pompeo. These protests, primarily led by women, have been pushing…

Kerby Anderson The congressional vote on the so-called Respect for Marriage Act illustrates how moral principles can easily give way to public opinion. One senator noted that less than three decades ago, “President Bill Clinton signed into law a bill sponsored by then-Representative Chuck Schumer” which had the title “the Religious Freedom Restoration Act.” A quarter of a century ago, the same president signed into law the Defense of Marriage Act defining marriage between one man and one woman. But…

Kerby Anderson Anyone wondering if cryptocurrency regulation was coming soon need look no further than the FTX scandal that unfolded this month. Sam Bankman-Fried founded FTX in 2019. A few months ago, he was called the “J.P. Morgan of crypto.” Now he is being called the Bernie Madoff of crypto. The financial issues surrounding the scandal are significant, but so are the moral issues. The founder was one of 10 roommates involved in various sexual relationships with each other while…

Penna Dexter A bright spot in the midterm election results was the success of many candidates who won school board positions by opposing wokeness, radical gender ideologies and overzealous COVID policies.  Many of these candidates, and others who have been winning local elections over the past couple of years, received training and support from groups like the 1776 Project and Moms for Liberty. The idea is to flip majority-Left school boards to boards containing majorities who will recognize and remove…

Kerby Anderson George Barna has been doing an extensive inventory of the worldviews of Americans through the Cultural Research Center at Arizona Christian University. He was on my radio program last week to talk about two of his most recent surveys dealing with truth and morality. Past generations of Americans viewed God as the basis for truth. Not only has that changed for the general population, it has also changed significantly within the church. He found that there were certain…

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…