All conservatives (especially Christian ones) should know that they are duty bound to say what is true. The “No Enemies to the Right” calculation is immoral and unprincipled because it is not only a refusal to say what is true but an active campaign to defend what is not true. Dissembling is no virtue, especially when it is being used as a cover for moral evil. And make no mistake. Racial epithets and jokes about the holocaust are beyond the pale and ought to be marginalized. [The excerpt above is from my most recent column in WORLD magazine, “No Frenemies to the Right.” Click here to read the rest.]
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Overcoming the Feminization of Culture
At the National Conservatism conference earlier this year, Helen Andrews delivered a talk titled, “Overcoming Feminization in the Culture.” Earlier today, Compact magazine published a written version of the same thesis titled, “The Great Feminization.” I highly recommend either watching or reading Andrews’ stimulating argument. She contends that “”Everything you think of as wokeness involves prioritizing the feminine over the masculine: empathy over rationality, safety over risk, cohesion over competition.” In other words, wokeness is not merely an ideology but a way of thinking and socializing that is fundamentally feminine. The reason that wokeness spread the way that it did in the 2010’s and beyond is because of a steep rise…
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The Assassination of Charlie Kirk (1993-2025)
Late this afternoon, one of my students stopped me in a parking lot at Boyce College and asked if I had heard the news. I had been teaching for hours at that point and told him I hadn’t heard anything. So he informed me that Charlie Kirk had been shot and was fighting for his life in the hospital. My student then described in violent detail what had happened. The videos were all over social media, and he had seen the horrifying spectacle with his own eyes. He also asked me to pray—which I did as I hurried to my vehicle to get my phone out and see the news…
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Dear Mr. President, about going to heaven… (an open letter to President Trump)
Dear Mr. President, I saw your remarks about heaven on Fox & Friends from Tuesday morning, and I can’t tell you how happy I am to have heard them. It is a rare thing for a world leader to reflect so openly about his own mortality and about what waits on the other side. Even in polite conversation, most people don’t want to “go there,” much less in front of millions of viewers. But you did go there, and there are millions of us who are grateful that you did. Sadly, the human condition is such that people are often reluctant to think about what you brought up on Tuesday morning. Aren’t there happier…
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Republicans Win by a Landfill… (reflections on the election)
Well, it’s official. The pollsters were wrong for a third election cycle in a row. They all massively failed to predict Trump’s support across the country. They predicted a close race that would basically be a toss-up. They couldn’t have been more wrong. As I write this, the Associated Press and other news outlets have declared Donald Trump President-Elect. Trump not only won the electoral college decisively but is also winning the popular vote. Republicans haven’t won a majority of the popular vote in 36 years and haven’t won the popular vote in 20 years. The New York Times estimates that after the dust settles, Trump will have won 312…
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No Facts or Evidence Required
In the immediate aftermath of the assassination attempt on former President Trump, social media were treating us to an endless stream of uninformed “hot takes.” Although the better part of wisdom would refuse public speculation, precious few were so restrained. We were told that the shooter was a member of Antifa. We were told that he was Italian. There were even pictures circulating of some poor guy who was identified to be the shooter but who actually had nothing to do with any of it. Within minutes of the shooting, images and video from the site of the shooting began circulating. Some of these appeared on social media in misleading…
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Drafting Women into Combat?
Last week, the GOP majority in the House of Representatives passed the 2025 National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA). According to an executive summary released by the Senate Armed Services Committee, the bill would “require the registration of women for Selective Service.” If this were to become law and if the draft were ever to be reinstituted, women could be drafted into a U. S. military that no longer has barriers to women serving in combat. When news of this broke last week, I saw no major news outlets reporting on it. I wrote a column about it for WORLD magazine, but I hardly saw any major news outlets discussing it.…
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Why the pro-life cause is a political liability to the GOP
I just read the following observation in an Axios newsletter: “Abortion rights have yet to lose since the end of Roe when the decision has been up to voters instead of legislators or courts.” This is a sobering reality that pro-lifers need to come to terms with. It’s why many Republican politicians are now treating the pro-life cause as a political liability. See Donald Trump’s statement yesterday, and Kari Lake’s statement today. And of course, we know where the Democrats stand. They are even worse by supporting abortion rights through all nine months of a woman’s pregnancy. The politicians are simply reflecting public opinion at this point. The majority of…
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Moral seriousness and the post-Christian right
Two sad things happened over the holidays that ought to arrest the attention of Christian conservatives everywhere. The first is the revelation of a calendar featuring scantily clad “conservative” women and being marketed to “conservative” dads. The second is a social media posting from former President Donald Trump calling for his political enemies to “rot in hell.” [Read the rest at WORLD Opinions]
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Terminate the Constitution?
Over the weekend, former President Trump wrote the following on Truth Social: You read that correctly—”terminate” the Constitution. This statement surely can be added to the long list of foolish, reprehensible things the former president has said over the years. It repeats his “big steal” gambit. Even worse, it calls for the Constitution of the United States to be overthrown. Nearly two years ago, I wrote about his stolen election claims and the January 6th disgrace, and I suppose I have nothing to add to that (read it here). But on this latest remark about “terminating” the Constitution, it’s worth pointing out that this kind of talk is a complete…
