Why do progressives reject Bernie Sanders? “It is better to rule in hell than to serve in heaven.” Lucifer, in Paradise Lost John Milton got it right: The culture of heaven is to serve. The culture of hell is to rule. Those who seek power would rather rule in hell
It’s looking more and more like a Trump vs Sanders race. Bernie Sanders may have the best chance to win the Democratic nomination for president. He has “The Big Mo”(momentum), has raised more money than any other Democratic candidate, and has the best grass-roots support and national network. Sanders has
This is post 1 of 5 in the series “Bill Barr at Notre Dame” Bill Barr, Freedom Fighter Freedom: Where Does It Come From? Self-Control: Will Just Any Religion Achieve It? Self-government: The Legacy of Christianity The Death of Morality US Attorney General Bill Barr A political theory says the
The West is spilling innocent blood Go here to see an angry woman. Why was she angry? Because US Senator Ben Sasse (R-NB) was seeking a unanimous consent vote for the Born-Alive Abortion Survivors Protection Act. In other words, Sasse was asking for the actual vote for the act to
Justice Brett Kavanaugh, Wikimedia Commons Our friend Nancy R. Pearcey is editor-at-large of The Pearcey Report. She is also scholar in residence and professor at Houston Baptist University, where she serves as director of the Francis Schaeffer Center for Worldview and Culture. Nancy is also a fellow at the Discovery Institute. Dr. Pearcey recently published
National Parliament Building of Hungary In our time, globalization as a philosophy is rapidly expanding. It is marked by moral and cultural relativism, groupthink, and the rise of the algorithm, that 21st century phenomenon which is eroding our ability to think. The individual is being subsumed into the universal. Nations
Over the last two decades, the LGBT community has been flexing its muscles. The rapidity and heft of the movement has taken the world by surprise. Culture has changed dramatically in the West, and now the push is on to bring cultural acceptance and changes in laws in the developing
For many people, the name “Castro” evokes tyranny and the stifling of freedoms: religion, conscience, the press, assembly, speech. All these principles we hold dear in the United States. All were enshrined in the First Amendment to the constitution. Now a new Castro has made a frontal attack on religious freedom in
Donald Trump favored by Evangelicals Like so many in this US election cycle, I assumed that if a moral, principled constitutionalist were to run for president, evangelical Christians would flock to him or her. With 17 candidates in the Republican field—including two with Latin backgrounds, one brilliant black surgeon, one
Secular religion is behind the bathroom bills. It is vital that Christians understand what is at stake with the Obama administration’s transgender directive to America’s public schools. It is far more than simply a policy about the use of bathrooms and showers. The first amendment to the U.S. Constitution states that
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