What Are You Thinking About?
Gary Varvel, a political cartoonist for the Indianapolis Star, likes to poke fun at how illiterate we have become about the news of the day – and the more important questions that lie behind the news about the nation we are making.
Our ”Godless Constitution”
By Eric Metaxas | One Fourth of July ad would have you believe that the Founding Fathers sought to shield our nation’s government from Christianity. Clever, but not true. This Fourth of July, I opened up the New York Times, and whammo! I found an extremely misleading...
Who Is Racist?
By Thomas Sowell | I am so old that I can remember when most of the people promoting race hate were white. Apparently other Americans also recognize that the sources of racism are different today from what they were in the past. According to a recent Rasmussen poll…
What Every Twenty-Something Needs to Know
By David Murray | Every 20-something deserves to know what psychologists, sociologists, neurologists and fertility specialists already know: Claiming your twenties is one of the simplest yet most transformative things you can do for work, for love, for your…
Less Content for More Money
By Anne D. Neal | Baltimore Sun | Maryland’s public honors college charges too much and delivers too little, and prospective students are starting to catch on….the higher ed bubble is bursting, right in our own backyard. And colleges and universities need to take note, to ensure their own survival. The case in point is St. Mary’s College of Maryland, a 173-year-old public institution tucked between the Potomac River and Chesapeake Bay. After a decade of rising tuition, this public liberal arts college finds itself with…
Real Americans Don’t Trust the Government
By Jonathon Moseley | “Question Authority” was a dominant political theme in the ’60s and 70s We’re talking about the 1760s and the 1770s, of course — the American Revolution. Well, sure, the 1960s and the 1970s, too. But our country was founded on the idea “Question Authority” while opposing…
On Patriotism
Patriotism is as much a virtue as justice, and is as necessary for the support of society as natural affection is for the support of families. The Amor Patriae [Latin for “Love of Country”] is both a moral and…
The Kids are (not Quite) All Right
By Eric Metaxas | Can a narcissistic generation rise to the challenges that face our society? Yeah, that’s a leading question….in its May 20th edition, Time Magazine has weighed in on the subject. In a schizoid piece, it calls “Millennials,” those born between 1980 and 2000, “lazy entitled narcissists,” yet it insists that they somehow…
So Long to Colleges
By Scott Johnston | A new world for higher ed | Know what a run-of-the-mill college costs these days? About $60,000 a year. This number has been skyrocketing for decades. Why? Growing demand, fixed supply. Now that’s all about to change. For many colleges, it could be a death knell. It also could be good news for students and their families. Think about it: Historically, supply has been fixed for obvious reasons — universities don’t just…