Compared to Whom?
Kerby Anderson “To know only one country is to know none.” That insight by Seymour Martin Lipset is so important that Jonah Goldberg believes it should be pounded into the heads of every high school s...
Political Realignment
Kerby Anderson One of the common mistakes among Christians is to assume that the future will be merely an extension of the present. We might assume there will be some changes, but often we can’t imagi...
AI and Human Control
Kerby Anderson You may remember the movie “2001: A Space Odyssey” where the computer, HAL 9000, would not allow itself to be shut down by the astronauts. HAL begins to malfunction in subtle ways but...
Pride’s Slowing Momentum
Penna Dexter It’s Pride Month again. It used to be called gay pride. Now — in an effort to force the concept on all of us — it’s just Pride. There are Pride celebrations taking place across the coun...
Outsourcing Our Brains
Kerby Anderson Many of the concerns about the impact of artificial intelligence focus on AI and should instead focus on the human using it. That is why Christians Schneider warns about “The Danger of...
Trump and Dolls
Kerby Anderson Last month, President Trump stirred up social media when he seemed to be proposing a two-doll limit. He recognized there might be some economic pain associated with his tariffs so he re...
Retirement Age
Kerby Anderson For decades, we have heard that the U.S. needs to be more like Europe. But as I have documented in previous commentaries, if we were more like Europe, we would have less liberal aborti...
Welfare and Work
Kerby Anderson The budget bill that Congress considered had a provision requiring states to enforce a work requirement for able-bodied individuals on Medicaid between the ages of 19 and 64. Dr. Merril...
Overregulation
Kerby Anderson I think most Americans believe we have too many government regulations. But I suspect most don’t have the faintest idea of the extent of these government regulations. Last month, Presid...
China’s Squandered Advantage
Penna Dexter Reuters reports that the Chinese government, which — not-so-long ago — forced a one-child-per family policy on its population, is considering a monthly subsidy to encourage families to ha...
Short Attention Spans
Kerby Anderson Why do young people have short attention spans? That is a question the editors of the Wall Street Journal asked college students to address. Here are some of the best answers. One s...
Great Outdoors
Kerby Anderson Teresa Mull wrote a fascinating article with an intriguing title: “Why lumberjacks are happy and you’re not.” A Bureau of Labor Statistics survey reported that lumberjacks and farmers a...
