Category: politics
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Moral Confusion in Modern Times: A Rebuke of False Equivalence
The Event and Its Distorted Message In August, outside an Arlington County School Board meeting in Virginia, a small protest formed over a proposal to restrict transgender students from using bathrooms that do not align with their biological sex. Among the counter-protesters stood a man holding a hand-drawn sign that read, “Hey Winsome, if trans can’t…
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Freedom to Speak, Freedom to Part Ways
Free speech is not a talisman that turns folly into wisdom or rudeness into courage. It is a legal shield against government punishment for words. It is not a contract that binds employers, customers, or neighbors to applaud, employ, or endorse those words. We confuse categories and then act shocked at the bill that arrives.…
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Blood of the Martyrs
The sorrow that comes upon us when the innocent are murdered while they pray should drive every soul to its knees. What words can suffice in the face of such terror? Men and women, little children, saints of Christ, gathered in the hush of midnight prayer, were visited not by the comfort of heaven but…
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A Word of Correction for the Soul in Error
There is a grievous danger in the modern practice of chaining eternal truth to the wagon of cultural fashion, and nowhere is that danger more evident than in the proclamations of those who clothe political ideology in the language of Christian virtue. Ms. Staci Abrams, former candidate for Governor in the great state of Georgia,…
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The Triumph of Reason and Fairness in Women’s Athletics
A Thankful Reflection Today is a good day. There are moments in history, quiet but unmistakable, when truth stirs from its long slumber, shakes off the scorn of the fashionable lie, and rises to speak again. The news that the University of Pennsylvania has agreed to bar biological males from competing in women’s sports is…
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The Role of Parents in Education: The Supreme Court’s Stand
The recent divide between the leaders of America’s two largest teachers’ unions over the Supreme Court’s ruling in Mahmoud v. Taylor is as revealing as it is unsurprising. One laments the Court’s decision as a betrayal of professional expertise, while the other somewhat unexpectedly acknowledges the rightful place of parents in the educational process. And…
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“Hands Off” or Heads Buried? A response to America’s April 7th Protests
In a country where freedom of speech is still preserved—even if inconsistently respected—it is no surprise that thousands took to the streets yesterday in what they called “Hands Off” protests. Their grievance? A supposed assault on democracy, liberty, and human rights by the second Trump administration. Their slogans rang out with dramatic cries of “fascism”…
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An Open Letter to Pope Francis
Your Holiness, It is with both sorrow and necessity that I must take up my pen and write this letter, for a rebuke is never a thing to be lightly undertaken, especially when directed at the Bishop of Rome. However, when a shepherd of the flock distorts the nature of Christian love and misapplies Holy…
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Sports is ‘genocide’
What is going on in Minnesota? If anyone needed yet another example that elections have consequences, here it is. The sheer absurdity of Representative Kozlowski’s statement is a testament to how far modern rhetoric has drifted from reason, evidence, and even the most basic understanding of language. To suggest that preserving women’s sports for biological…
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A Defense of the Innocence of Children: A Response to the Kansas Decision
It is a sign of great moral confusion that we must now contend for truths so obvious that our ancestors would have regarded their denial as madness. That childhood should be protected, that the bodies of children should remain inviolate, that no man ought to maim or sterilize a child under the pretense of mercy—these…
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