As an adjunct philosophy professor in the early 2010s, I taught excerpts from Charles Murray’s Coming Apart. The course, “Introduction to Ethics,” was required for all students, and the only class I taught in my seven years at the University of St. Thomas. Needless to say, Coming Apart is not traditionally listed as a great work of moral philosophy. It...

　　Churchill introduces My Early Life, his autobiography covering 1874 to 1904, with this observation: “I find I have drawn a picture of a vanished age.” The book is his odyssey. It describes his early wanderings and fortunes as a young officer, journalist, and member of parliament. It depicts not only the actions but also the opinions and convictions of his...

　　Why It's Important to Be on the Same Page with Debt 　　By: Carrie Lowrance 　　Just as the rich rule the poor, so the borrower is a servant to the lender.(Proverbs 22:7, NLT) 　　Money problems are one of the biggest issues in marriage. It is definitely a topic that needs to be addressed before tying the knot so both parties know...

　　Commerce is supposed to be apolitical. Free-market exchanges promote economic efficiency and consumer welfare because consensual transactions between buyers and sellers are indifferent to anything but the price—Adam Smith’s “invisible hand.” Money is fungible and business is impersonal. All that matters is voluntary cooperation by uncoerced actors. As Nobel laureate Milton Friedman explained in Free to Choose, “The price system...

　　Analogies have the power to reveal new relationships and to reframe how we think. Good analogies help us understand the world. They use relationships and phenomena we experience to help us understand more complex or abstract phenomena. On the other hand, bad analogies can cause grave errors. 　　When people with a generally grim view of modernity raise concerns about pollution...

　　Wherever You Are, There the Lord Will Also Be 　　By Keri Eichberger 　　Bible Reading 　　And surely I am with you always, to the very end of the age. – Matthew 28:20 　　I’ve always been a beach girl. Claiming this praiseworthy place is where I feel closest to God. “You can have the mountains,” I would say. “Take me to the...

　　For a president dubbed the “Great Communicator,” it is remarkable how little consensus exists concerning Ronald Reagan’s record. Two new entries into the Reagan imaginary, Max Boot’s weighty biography of the 40th president and the new Ronald Reagan biopic starring Dennis Quaid, have reminded readers and filmgoers of the enduring Reagan enigma that continues to occupy a place of debate...

　　What Christmas Can't Do 　　“The thief does not come except to steal, and to kill, and to destroy. I have come that they may have life, and that they may have it more abundantly” (John 10:10 nkjv). 　　As the Christmas season descends, we’re seeing countless commercials of things we’re supposed to buy. 　　The implied promise is that if you give...

　　Cosmology is a subject that is far too difficult for me. For example, I find it impossible to understand the idea of the Big Bang, let alone the idea that there might be two or more universes. The nearest I can come to understanding the latter is the commentary I see on the Internet regarding the American election. There, people...

　　Engineers in the service of Emperor Qin Shi Huang, who gave his name to what we now call “China,” built an artificial island in 256 BCE to divide the Ming River near the city of Chengdu, and cut a 66-meter channel through Mount Yulei using heated stones and cold water to crack the living rock. In place of deadly floods,...

　　Wisdom of the Aged (Job 12:12) 　　By Jennifer Waddle 　　Today’s Bible Verse -Is not wisdom found among the aged? Does not long life bring understanding?(Job 12:12) 　　There’s great value in the lessons that can be learned between generations. Just as Paul encouraged Timothy in the Bible not to let anyone look down on him for his youth, but to be...

　　American institutions of higher learning, perhaps especially the most selective of them, are failing to help students become tolerant, reflective, and respectful of different viewpoints.Intolerance and dogmatism are common, resulting in censorship, cancel culture, unreasonable limits on free speech, unlawful protests, and violence. Student dogmatism is enabled by faculty orthodoxies, of this, there is little doubt. As Jonathan Haidt and...