Friday, December 20, 2024
Now, the way the year works is that today is the last kind of normal day of business for most people here in the United States. Now, there are those, of course, whose lives don’t accommodate that kind of schedule, who are in medical fields or in special fields that simply do not allow for that k...
December 20, 2024
Thursday, December 19, 2024
There are issues foreign and domestic that demand our attention. And as we are barreling towards the holiday season with Christmas just looming before us, it is very interesting to note that the headlines don’t wait. The big issues don’t wait. There’s a certain sense in which a lot c...
December 19, 2024
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The BriefingWednesday, December 18, 2024
Much of America was fascinated and quite pleased just a matter of days ago when Daniel Penny was found not guilty of charges that had been brought against him by the district attorney in Manhattan related to the death of Jordan Neely on a subway car after an incident that had led to a chokehold being ...
December 18, 2024
Tuesday, December 17, 2024
Over the course of the last several decades, it has become very, very clear that American culture in general has gone all in for pornography. That is to say that in the world around us, it is in general terms, no longer considered a serious moral issue. And so as you think of pornography, and by this ...
December 17, 2024
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The BriefingMonday, December 16, 2024
The urgency of several worldview issues takes us back to two of the big stories of the last week. This has to do of course, number one with the arrest of Luigi Mangione, the lead suspect in the case of the murder of Brian Thompson, the insurance executive days before in the city of New York, a cold-bl...
December 16, 2024
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December 15, 2024
Friday, December 13, 2024
Well, do we live in an increasingly secularized society or not? Is the world moving in a more secular direction or not? Well, I ask the question because even as the answer appears to be obvious: Yes, we’re living in a more secularized age. The world appears to be moving in a more secular directi...
December 13, 2024
Thursday, December 12, 2024
The Economist of London thinks it’s pointing to something very significant when it runs a series with the headline, “Gambling is Growing like Gangbusters in America.” There’s a certain irony in that headline, but let’s just face the fact that the big story here is a vast increase in ...
December 12, 2024
Wednesday, December 11, 2024
One of the most controversial issues in American public life, at least from time to time and place to place, is the minimum wage. And there are some separate questions. Should there be a minimum wage? And if so, what should that wage be? Now the first question has been answered in the United States si...