Like many, I have been searching for the right note to sound in response to what has transpired in the streets of our country over the past couple of weeks, not so much about the heinous crime that sparked the protests, which probably fully 95% of Americans agree was a despicable act of murder, but […]

It didn’t take long for the notion of stakeholder capitalism as introduced last year by the Business Roundtable to spill over into political correctness and social justice politics.  In an op/ed entitled “The Stakeholder vs. the People” last month, Vivek Ramaswamy made the claim that stakeholder capitalism empowers capitalist leaders to “play a larger role […]

In one of the discussions spawned by my commentary on the same-sex marriage issue that is resulting in a split in the United Methodist Church, one of my friends and regular readers suggested that the LGBT “rights” activists would not stop there and his prediction is that the next demand of the Church by that […]

In revisiting Richard Weaver it occurred to me that a significant by-product of the relativism sparked by the evolution of the philosophy of nominalism that he explains is a pervasive subjectivism that colors every issue in the public realm.  As a society it seems we have dumped objectivism and adopted an attitude totally driven by […]

Just in the past few days there has come the announcement in the journal Science of a large study by an international research team and the discovery of five genetic markers linked to whether someone has ever had sex with a person of the same sex.  This team conducted a genome-wide association study using genomic […]

As parts of the Trump administration’s Protect Life rules have gone into effect, particularly one that prohibits recipients of Title X family-planning funds from performing abortions or referring for abortions, the nation’s largest abortion provider, Planned Parenthood, has announced that it will not comply with the new rules and will forfeit federal funding of about […]

My church, the United Methodist, has just completed the latest convocation of its General Conference, the top governing body of the Church, in St. Louis.  And while it is never without controversy, according to all reports this one might have been the tipping point for the world-wide denomination’s unity over a sticking point that has […]

If people want to really blow up one figure here or one word there, I would argue that they’re missing the forest for the trees.  I think that there’s a lot of people more concerned about being precisely, factually, and semantically correct than about being morally right.–Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez in an interview with Anderson Cooper on […]

As I write, it remains to be seen whether or not Virginia Democrat Governor Ralph Northam will be able to keep his job after the exposure of photos from his medical school yearbook showing him either in blackface or in KKK robes.  But if he resigns, he should receive going away thanks for exposing a […]

The Supreme Court has just announced its decision in the Colorado “wedding cake case” by ruling that a baker who refused to bake a cake for a same sex wedding on religious grounds did not get a fair hearing before the state civil rights commission and shouldn’t be penalized.  It was a 7-2 ruling, but […]