Heartbeat Bills
Kerby Anderson Heartbeat bills have been introduced in numerous state legislatures. Some are held up in committee, but others make it to a floor vote. Some even pass the legislature and may even be si...
Partisan Hate
Kerby Anderson Thomas Edsall, writing in the New York Times, cites a number of academic studies that demonstrate what most of us have already seen. Partisan hate is on the increase. One academic pape...
Chick-fil-A
Kerby Anderson Here we go again. This time the San Antonio City Council banned Chick-fil-A from serving food at the San Antonio airport. If this sounds familiar, the same thing happened about four yea...
Drag Queen Story Hour
Penna Dexter Have you heard about the drag queen story hours taking place at various public libraries across the country? These events started popping up a couple of years ago. They feature flamboyant...
Sandy Hook Lawsuit
Kerby Anderson The Connecticut Supreme Court is allowing a lawsuit from the Sandy Hook shooting to go forward. Kevin Williamson refers to it as a “Bogus Lawsuit Against Remington.” He raises important...
Proposed Election Law
Kerby Anderson The Democratically-controlled House of Representatives just passed a signature piece of legislation. The bill clearly illustrates what the congressional leaders would like to do in Amer...
Medicare for All
Kerby Anderson Medicare for All has been in the news for months, and it will be a key campaign issue in the upcoming elections. Although I wrote about some of the problems with the concept months ago,...
Middle Class Shame
Kerby Anderson Neal Gabler, writing in The Atlantic, begins his essay with this disturbing statistic from a survey conducted by the Federal Reserve Board. The survey asked respondents how they would p...
Extended Adolescence
Kerby Anderson For decades, sociologists have documented the phenomenon of extended adolescence. This is where someone who is an adult still acts like a teenager. One classic example would be a 35-yea...
"Success Robots"
Penna Dexter In the aftermath of the recent college admissions scandal, the Wall Street Journal's Peggy Noonan issued a warning in a column she titled: "Kids, Don't Become Success Robots." Ms. Noonan...
Constitutional Ignorance
Kerby Anderson Americans don’t know much about the Constitution, and it apparently is getting worse. Nine years ago, I wrote and recorded a commentary about constitutional illiteracy. Back then I quo...
Culture of Contempt
Kerby Anderson We are a divided country, but it may be worse than we imagined. An article in The Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences discussed what is called “motive attribution asymmetry....
