Since debuting in the New York Times Magazine on August 14, 2019, the 1619 Project has ignited a debate about American history, the founding of the country and the legacy emanating from the nation’s history with chattel slavery. Continue Reading...
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August 04, 2020
Why do we embrace ‘cancel culture’?
Online disagreements, and even unintended slips, can end a person’s career. One stray word is all it takes to turn a hero into a pariah. What lies behind the hair-trigger we have placed on the reflex to “cancel” others? Continue Reading...
August 04, 2020
Fake friends: the dangers of the internet mob
In his memoir, Defying Hitler, Sebastian Haffner reflects on the social climate that characterized Nazi Germany. In particular, he describes how “[the Nazis had] made all Germans everywhere into comrades.” Continue Reading...
July 31, 2020
6 quotes: Milton Friedman on woke capitalism, racism, and equality
Milton Friedman was born on July 31, 1912. His work in pioneering monetary theory at the University of Chicago would win him the Nobel Prize for Economic Sciences in 1976 and popularize a new school of free-market economics, “The Chicago School.” Continue Reading...
July 30, 2020
Herman Cain, RIP
Herman Cain, the 2012 Republican presidential hopeful and former CEO of Godfather’s Pizza, passed away early Thursday morning at the age of 74. During his meteoric rise from poverty to the heights of the business world, Cain shared his faith in Christ, free markets, and the American dream. Continue Reading...
July 30, 2020
5 reasons your local newspaper (probably) deserves your money
In the past five years, one out of every five newspapers nationwide has closed and half of all newsroom employees have been laid off, according to the University of North Carolina’s School of Media and Journalism. Continue Reading...
July 29, 2020
Acton Line podcast: Richard Baxter and How to Do Good to Many
Richard Baxter, the English Puritan churchman and theologian, was perhaps one of most prolific English language author in the seventeenth century. His writings were wide ranging from doctrinal theology to devotional classics. Continue Reading...
July 28, 2020
Toppling statues tears at the 3 pillars of the West
Were he alive today, what would C.S. Lewis say about the ongoing, violent riots and church desecration being led by “trained Marxists”? As it turns out, we know. The answer lies in a letter that Lewis wrote about UK social protests 80 years ago, which reads as though it were a news dispatch from Portland’s federal courthouse. Continue Reading...
July 24, 2020
China: Remove pictures of Jesus or lose government aid
The Chinese government demands a small price in exchange for your monthly check: apostasy.
Chinese Communist Party officials have ordered impoverished Christians to remove pictures of Jesus from their walls or lose the government aid that’s keeping them alive. Continue Reading...
July 24, 2020
Politics as religion: The moral weakness of secular orthodoxies
Although Christianity appears to be on the decline across America, we continue to see the rise of personal spiritualities and politics as religion. With a corresponding lack of moral imagination, we see the over-spiritualization of much else, particularly when it comes to ideological tribalism. Continue Reading...
