Thursday, Dec. 20, 2018

PART I In a hyper-partisan age, how was bipartisan consensus reached on criminal justice bill?

PART II The personal side of politics: Understanding the human factors behind the legislative process

PART III Paul Ryan bids farewell: Why the type of elected official he represents is becoming an endangered species

PART IV Why the national debt is a moral problem, not just a fiscal issue

Wednesday, Dec. 19, 2018

PART I Why religion, if not based in truth, is grounded in nothing more than moral aspirations

PART II How the apparent disappearance of religion reveals the emergence of a new paganism

PART III The evolution of jerks: Can the central doctrine of the secular age function as a theory of everything?

Tuesday, Dec. 18, 2018

PART I Emergency contraception on demand: What the rise of Plan B vending machines reveals about the society we are becoming

PART II As both sides attempt to read the tea leaves on abortion, the legitimacy of the Supreme Court is called into question

PART III How should we consider the trial of a 94-year-old man who was a teenager when he was a guard at a Nazi concentration camp?

Monday, Dec. 17, 2018

PART I When the biggest event is not the biggest news: Why Cardinal Pell’s child sex abuse conviction goes unreported by many news outlets

PART II Crackdown on religion in China: Pastor’s arrest for ‘inciting subversion’ reveals the coercive power of the Communist Party

PART III Is there a link between moral behavior and public health? How individuality led to an epidemic of loneliness for millions of baby boomers

PART IV Why the loss of the Weekly Standard does not make us stronger, but makes us weaker

Friday, Dec. 14, 2018

PART I Boy Scouts face bankruptcy: What does this tell us about an institution that once represented the mainstream of American culture?

PART II Cannabis, Inc.: When you’re looking at a moral revolution, the money isn’t far behind

PART III Unprecedented political bargains on both sides of the Atlantic as Theresa May and Nancy Pelosi hold onto leadership posts

PART IV Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn at 100: A look at the man who did more than any human being to bring about the fall of the Soviet Union

Thursday, Dec. 13, 2018

PART I Why a compromise on gender identity, however well-intended, is a disaster for religious liberty

PART II When every kid has a smartphone, odds are they aren’t doing smart things with it

PART III Teen Vogue, in article surrounded by ads trying to sell you something, declares capitalism must be ended

Wednesday, Dec. 12, 2018

PART I What happens in Europe doesn’t stay in Europe: Why Americans need to pay close attention to political unrest across the Atlantic

PART II The progressive, cosmopolitan future Macron envisioned for France is confronted by reality in the streets of Paris

PART III British parliament considers Brexit options but one big question remains—will the British people get what they voted for?

PART IV Voyager 2, launched in 1977, reaches interstellar space. But completion of the mission will take 30,000 more years.

Tuesday, Dec. 11, 2018

PART I Even after achieving a conservative majority, Supreme Court declines to take Planned Parenthood cases. What does this mean for the future?

PART II The 70th anniversary of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights: How can a secular worldview sustain any notion of human rights and human dignity?

PART III Even worse, how do you protect human rights and human dignity when some now argue that such a claim is “speciesism?”

PART IV Detached from reality, idealism is not only inadequate, it is deadly

Monday, Dec. 10, 2018

PART I Scouts go to court: Gender confusion spills over as both Girl Scouts and Boy Scouts compete for girls

PART II Just how much apologizing must one do to be adequately contrite? We don’t know.

PART III Generational transition before our eyes: 300 survived Pearl Harbor aboard the USS Arizona, only five remain

Friday, Dec. 7, 2018

PART I How the loss of moral authority leads to the loss of theological authority

PART II An insidious argument for abortion gains traction as pro-abortion advocates take aim at the Hyde Amendment

PART III How tourism in a small island in the Mediterranean is a microcosm of the moral revolution

PART IV Feeding two birds with one scone: Recommended language from PETA unveils deep cultural hypocrisy