Recent Viewpoints

Penna Dexter The Institute for Family Studies and the Wheatly Foundation recently published a report about Americans’ attitudes regarding marriage and child-rearing. Its title is, “The Divided State of Our Unions: Family Formation in (Post-) Covid-19 America.” It shows the “desire to marry” has ticked up a bit overall since the onset of Covid, while “the desire to have a child” dropped. But, the study reveals deepening “economic, religious, and partisan divides in family formation” and describes the reasons “the…

Kerby Anderson We have all heard the phrase, “seeing is believing.” Unfortunately, that is no longer true due to the technological advancements that make deepfakes so convincing. Two years ago, I wrote about how you could put someone’s face on a video the way you can use Photoshop or Lightroom to put a face on a picture of someone’s body. In the past, it took cutting-edge video technology to accomplish this. Now, it is readily available and can even be…

Kerby Anderson University professors in the humanities and social sciences have been publishing open letters for years, but the latest one comes from some of the top scientists in the country warning about the assault on math in our schools. In previous commentaries, I have talked about woke math and woke science. It is sometimes easy to dismiss such bizarre statements by leftist critics. But this letter focuses on recent attempts to “eliminate standardized testing and lower standards in math…

Kerby Anderson George Barna has been interviewing Americans throughout this year and published his results in the American Worldview Inventory. As I have mentioned in previous commentaries, he has concluded that most Americans have a syncretistic worldview, which is a cut-and-paste worldview. A very small minority of Americans have Marxism as their dominant worldview. But here is the interesting fact. A much more significant percentage of them do embrace ideas that could be described as Marxist views. For example, more…

Kerby Anderson Dennis Prager recently put together a “Brief Guide to Leftist Destruction” and provided 16 examples. He probably calls it a “brief guide” because he could come up with even more examples. He has said on numerous occasions that everything the Left touches, it ruins. It became clear to him years ago while talking about the Left’s war on the Boy Scouts. Then he wondered if the Left would replace the Boy Scouts with a left-wing Boy Scouts. He…

Kerby Anderson Two articles in the last few weeks raise serious questions about the effectiveness and efficiency of mail-in ballots. The first comes from a House election in Florida that was won by a mere five votes. That was a reminder of how close elections can be especially in a primary in a special election. But the more important issue was the nearly 1,400 mail-in ballots thrown out in a Democratic primary that was won by five votes. Most of…

Penna Dexter After oral arguments in an abortion clinic’s challenge to Mississippi’s law banning most abortions before 15 weeks gestation, the question has become: Will Roe v. Wade and Planned Parenthood v. Casey stay or go? The Chief Justice hinted at the possibility of a narrower ruling. But attorneys for the abortion clinic and for the Biden administration argued for what National Review described as an “all-or-nothing outcome…giving the court no alternative path to uphold the Mississippi law without overturning…

Kerby Anderson Are there more weather-related disasters due to climate change? Activists and the media would have you think they are increasing in number and intensity. Some science fiction movies portray a dystopian future due to climate change. If you are paying attention, you will notice that activists may talk about climate disasters, but they never total up the deaths from various natural disasters. Fortunately, Bjorn Lomborg has put together the facts and a chart that show we are much…

Kerby Anderson Have you noticed an increase in climate alarmism in the news? Pundits, politicians, and activists are predicting a global catastrophe on the horizon that requires immediate and expensive action before the planet is doomed. A helpful antidote to all the doom and gloom is the book, Unsettled: What Climate Science Tells Us, What It Doesn’t, and Why It Matters, by Dr. Steven Koonin. He is difficult to label as a “climate denier.” Early in his book, he acknowledges…

Kerby Anderson Should non-citizens be given the right to vote? Most Americans would say no. If you want to vote, you should become an American citizen. But before you conclude that the matter is settled, consider what has been happening in certain areas of the country. A few weeks ago, the New York City Council voted to allow over 800,000 green-card holders and non-citizen residents with work permits to vote in municipal elections. Cities like Chicago and San Francisco allow…

Kerby Anderson Today is December 7 – a day that President Roosevelt said would be “a date which will live in infamy.” On that fateful morning of December 7, 1941, America was attacked without warning. More than 2,400 Americans died and 1,100 were wounded. Our country was changed forever. This attack led us into war, and the citizens of America responded with courage and resolve. So it may be well to reflect on what took place and how we today…