The UK Election: Can Theresa May Turn Around Her Sinking Poll Numbers?
There is a certain schadenfreude in watching the missteps of countries other than our own. This year in particular, I […]
Is Islam Really Violent?
I first heard of the Manchester bombing on Facebook. Before the identity of the bomber was released, the comment sections
What’s Behind the Uber Ban?
Industries that are overly controlled by government authorities do not have the mechanisms for allowing people to make these choices. When markets are allowed to work, options abound
Is Our Galaxy Worth Guarding? (A Sort-Of-Not-Really Movie Review)
It is true that nobody makes a new earth without first making a new heaven. – G. K. Chesterton (Ffinch 1986, 278) I
What the French Election Means for Europe
Who is Emmanuel Macron? Three years ago, most French citizens would not be able to tell you. Macron’s rise has
Will the Russia Thing Bring Trump Down?
Remember when Trump was supposed to be “our boy?” He won a plurality of the vote among American evangelicals. Our
Confederate Monuments and the Plank in our Eyes
Last week city workers removed a statue of Jefferson Davis from a prominent city thoroughfare in New Orleans. This action
Why We Live in a Theocracy Now
Recently, my alma mater New Saint Andrew’s college announced that it would be purchasing a property in downtown Moscow, ID.
Amazon and the Church of Secularism
As Millennials reject organized religion and leave the church to never return, many bluster about the implications of such trends. Some secularists take
Does the Church Fail the Uneducated?
The church in America has in part given way to a social club that maintains the apparatus of Christianity while providing different social classes, from the lower middle class on up, respectability and community. This respectability and community sometimes comes at the cost of exclusion of the poor and less-educated.
When the People Cheer – Strip-Clubs and Black Thought’s Poetic Insight
On The Roots newest album ‘. . . and then you shoot your cousin,” one of the most powerful tracks is ‘When the People Cheer.’ Each stanza is written from a different perspective. The third stanza, Black Thought’s stanza, is written from the perspective of a sex addict that has reached both a financial and existential low because he is enslaved to sexual pleasures. He knows that what he is doing is wrong, but he can no longer resist the strip clubs. He turns in to an after-hours joint to blow his last dollar on a lap dance.
The Worth of Guilt: Questions from Taurus Carroll and Bernard Nathanson
What is required for someone to be guilty? This has been brought to the forefront of our minds by the
On Saving the World
The other day I stumbled across a new series on Netflix: Bill Nye Saves the World. Now I, like millions
A Sense of Purpose, but no Sense of Place: The Media Will Always Get the 2016 Election Wrong
During the last election cycle, even up through the first half of election night, every major media outlet predicted a
Why Atheists Have No Reason to March for Science; Only Christians Do
CNN reported on the so-called “March for Science” on April 22nd, 2017 in an article titled “March for Science: Protesters
Trump the Blasphemer
Trump opted to skip out on this year’s White House Correspondents Dinner, and instead held a rally in Pennsylvania. Now,
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Populism’s Takeover of the West
“I’m against the Right of money, and the Left of money. I’m the candidate of the people!” Sound familiar? You
Packaging the Tribe: Selling More than Music
Netflix’ new documentary Hip Hop Evolution is a history of the development and rise of Hip Hop and Rap. In one of the interviews, Ice T, a primeval purveyor of Gangster Rap, talks about his early rhymes: “I was just writing about my reality.” He was trying to capture “the laid back vibe of reality.” The people in the neighborhood listened because they recognized their life in his words. According to Ice Cube, another early Gangster Rapper, Ice T wrote rhymes that “were our version of what a day in the life of Los Angeles was like.” They were not trying to create a new genre. They wanted to fetter their daily insanity with verse.
Liberty to Mutilate?
Earlier this month United States attorneys charged a Detroit doctor with female genital mutilation (FGM), the first prosecution of this