Why Difficult Conversations are Impossible
By JC Sullivan | Last week, Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell announced his intention to delay a vote on Loretta Lynch’s confirmation as United States Attorney General until the Senate considers a bill aimed at fighting human trafficking. This bill has met Democratic opposition because of certain…
What Christianophobia Looks Like in America
By George Yancey | As America’s religious landscape grows more diverse, we see Christianity’s cultural dominance fading. While a vast majority of the country and our leaders still identify as Christian, many conservative Protestants sense a growing animosity toward themselves and their beliefs. For the…
This American Muslim Entrepreneur Hopes Capitalism can Defeat ISIS
By Matthew Bell | Shahed Amanullah helped advise the US State Department and White House on social media strategy and countering extremism online. Call it capitalism as a counterterrorism strategy. ISIS is like a small, nimble start-up, building its brand for a target audience of 500 million Muslim youth…
Memo to Military: Lowering Standards is Not Equality
By Chad Groening | A national defense analyst says there’s no need to place women into direct combat units just to bow to political correctness. “Men and women aren’t the same. They are different,” says Bob Maginnis, a senior fellow for national security at the Family Research Council. The Obama…
Updated FTU Course: Is Wisdom Attainable?
The wisdom tradition recognizes wise and unwise choices, and claims that knowing the difference is important. Do you prize wisdom? Sign in to the class here to learn more about this course experience, which is free for students and will qualify them to participate in America’s fastest-growing college…
From Sticks and Stones to Microaggression?
By Eric Metaxas | Stop me if you’ve heard this one before: I just flew in from London and, boy, are my arms tired. Of course, you couldn’t stop me, so I told a bad joke. But it seems I may have done more than offend against humor—I may have committed a “microaggression.” If you’ve never heard the term…
Environmentalism as the New American Religion
By Michael Crichton | Environmentalism is a perfect 21st century remapping of traditional Judeo-Christian beliefs and myths. Today, one of the most powerful religions in the Western World is environmentalism. Environmentalism seems to be the religion of choice for urban atheists. Why do I say it’s a…
What if 150,000 People a Year Were Euthanized in the U.S., Some Without Their Consent?
By Wesley J. Smith | Belgium has surpassed the Netherlands as the hastened death capital of the world. A study out of Flanders, published in the New England Journal of Medicine shows that 18% of patients deaths come either from lethal injection/assisted suicide or from being put into a deep coma and left to…
Are We Seeing the Eclipse of Religious Liberty in America?
By Rod Dreher | A week ago today, Indiana Gov. Mike Pence signed a minor-league religious liberty law, one very close to the federal RFRA model, offering what, should it ever be appealed to in gay rights cases, would offer a small modicum of protection (the right to a hearing) to religious conservatives. And then…