CANCELED! A Conference on Censorship and Cancel Culture:
Leftism is worse than racism
The current debate about riots and public safety hinge on a massive misunderstanding. Many people in the public have elevated racism to an evil status akin to “witchcraft” in the minds of seventeenth-century Salem or “treason against the emperor” in ancient Rome. Because racism has been viewed as a supernatural evil, people have given priority…
The Fall of the Great Left (or, Farewell, Foucault!)
When I first arrived on a college campus in 1988, I felt I was entering a new world. Coming from Buffalo where I’d attended a public high school, the whirling elites of the Ivy League felt foreign to me. One of the first things I had to understand was the way of the Left. The…
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Liberty’s future is predictable based on the 2018 Paige Patterson case
Who will replace Jerry Falwell Jr.? History allows us to guess. Falwell’s “indefinite” leave may result in a return to power but that appears unlikely. The efforts to oust him look like the case of Paige Patterson two years ago. Many watched in amazement and horror as this “conservative resurgence” Baptist was overthrown using devious…
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Dear Donald Trump: We Need a Commission on Persecution in Education
Professor Mike Adams (University of North Carolina, Wilmington) has died. I wrote this piece about his death and why conservatives should treat it as a clarion call. We need substantial action plans now. Below are the texts of four articles I wrote on American Thinker on education. There are a lot of solid points here.…
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How Christians Justify Doing Nothing about Evil
There are reasons that Christians don’t stand up to evil. Understandable, but unjustifiable reasons.
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The History behind Trump’s Mt. Rushmore Speech
Three big takeaways from Trump’s speech: cancel culture, far-left fascism, and cultural revolution.
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Traumatizing the Tongue: Why Universal Languages Collapse
Below is the précis of a book I’ve been working on about the rise and fall of universal languages. Statement of Aims: Spirituality, Language, and History Solomon advises us in Proverbs 3:5, “Trust in the Lord with all your heart and lean not on your own understanding.” Why is Solomon so worried about human beings…
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Liberal Lucy Van Pelt and Conservative Charlie Brown
Burn me once, shame on you. Burn me twice, shame on me. That’s the age-old nugget of wisdom that people have struggled with, since as long as humans had language. Do you remember the old scenario with Lucy Van Pelt and Charlie Brown, in the comic strip Peanuts? Lucy would promise Charlie Brown that she…
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What I wrote about monuments and totems in 2002 (when I was liberal)
Chapter I Monuments, Totems and the Veneratio Antiquitatis The prologue of the Passion of Perpetua and Felicity, a narrative about the martyrdom of two Christian women in Africa in 202 CE, begins with this statement about the nature of a text’s authority and its antiquity: If the old exemplars of faith, which testify to the…
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