Wednesday, Jan. 10, 2018

PART I The Oprahfication of politics updated: Will Oprah run for president?

PART II Shareholders express concerns about the addictive power of social media and new technology. Should we be alarmed?

PART III Landslides, tsunamis, and hurricanes have all taken place: The power of metaphors to explain our moral moment

Tuesday, Jan. 9, 2018

PART I The persistence of truth in an age of untruth: Is truth more important than ever before?

PART II California learns to sing the anthem of states rights as the rift grows between California and Washington D.C.

PART III The costly battle for our eyeballs intensifies in modern television programming

PART IV What can we learn—about ourselves and advertisers—from those constant drug ads?

Monday, Jan. 8, 2018

PART I Virtue signaling and moral messaging at the Golden Globes

PART II Why are teenagers so attracted to dystopian fiction?

PART III Secular advice to reform moral character

PART IV Major American newspaper tells parents to celebrate when their children learn how to lie

Friday, Jan. 5, 2018

PART I 2018 is going to be a pivotal year on the question of marijuana

PART II If something is legal, is it now moral?

PART III The moral crisis over a baby in Texas and the vexing question of surrogate parenting

PART IV The lessons of history from Iran

Thursday, Jan. 4, 2018

PART I Mormon President’s death highlights differences between historic Christianity and Mormonism

PART II Should the Mormon church be considered a Christian denomination?

PART III In spite of “official” doctrine, Mennonite church continues leftward trend

PART IV Another strange milestone in the sexual and moral revolution

Wednesday, Jan. 3, 2018

PART I U.S. government runs an operation to investigate U.F.O.s—why do we find the question so interesting?

PART II Further evidence of the moral chasm that separates Americans

PART III Why some moral questions can’t be reduced to dollars and cents

Tuesday, Jan. 2, 2018

PART I A Catholic Cardinal, a former President of the United States, and an evangelical pastor walk into the op-ed pages of the New York Times

PART II Three conversations, one question, three worldviews on display

PART III Why resolutions fail and why the humanistic worldview crashes upon contact with reality

Friday, Dec. 15, 2017

PART I Economics as a test of worldview and tax reform as either promise or peril

PART II As Americans have their say about Christmas, we see the centrality of history to Christianity

PART III Evangelical Christian world grieves the death of a titan

Thursday, Dec. 14, 2017

PART I Why a Down syndrome diagnosis reveals the sanctity of human life, not just genetics

PART II A moral revolution leads to a new government in Palm Springs, California

PART III From LGBT to LGGBDTTTIQQAAPP: An expanding set of letters for the sexual revolution

PART IV Why religious activity is more revealing than religious identification

Wednesday, Dec. 13, 2017

PART I A political earthquake in Alabama

PART II The limits of conservative tolerance on questions of character

PART III Elections have consequences—in the Senate and in the womb

PART IV Secular attempts to resolve the sin problem with therapy

PART V New investigation that threatens to tell the truth about Planned Parenthood