Editor’s note: This paper is a production of the Center for Faith & Public Life. To learn more about the Center, please click here. To view, print, or share the final paper, please click here. And when a long succession … Continue reading
We are inundated with requests for our feedback. Your Walmart receipt asks, “Give Us Feedback.” Your Dunkin receipt offers you a “free classic donut” for your feedback. The requests are so pervasive that I tend to ignore them. I am … Continue reading
One of the cornerstones of President Donald Trump’s agenda is the strengthening of domestic business. Consistent with this goal, the administration recently announced a deal with U.S.-based semiconductor chip maker Intel for the purchase of an equity position in the … Continue reading
Cracker Barrel’s rebranding triggered a strong backlash in late August when the company removed the iconic “Uncle Herschel” character and his barrel from the company logo in favor of a cleaner, simpler look. The changes sparked significant customer outrage, especially … Continue reading
Lee S. Wishing III, vice president for student recruitment at Grove City College, testified before the House Subcommittee on Higher Education and Workforce Development to help bring light to a troubling practice in American higher education: unfunded discounting. We invite … Continue reading
For thousands of years if you asked who the two greatest teachers of all time were, the answer would be Jesus and Socrates. Tragically, these celebrated instructors share another trait: they were both executed by their societies, perhaps particularly for … Continue reading
Editor’s note: A version of this article first appeared at The American Spectator. “The blood of the martyrs,” said Tertullian, “is the seed of the Church.” Charlie Kirk led a movement, a conservative movement, not a church. We all know … Continue reading
Grove City College Opening Convocation Remarks, August 27, 2025 delivered by Grove City College President Bradley J. Lingo ’00 In one of the most dramatic scenes in all human history—hours before the crucifixion—Jesus stands before Pilate. Pilate asks Him two … Continue reading
Editor’s note: This address was given by GCC President Bradley J. Lingo ’00 to the 2025 Faculty Retreat. I walked down my driveway to my mailbox one summer day in the late 1990s. I reached in and pulled out a … Continue reading
The dog days of summer are not typically associated with school, but the summer of 2025 has marked the hundredth anniversary of two pivotal events in the history of American public schools. One is well known but arguably misunderstood. The … Continue reading
Editor’s note: This article first appeared at The American Spectator. In 1865, William Ross Wallace delivered a succinct and powerful cultural insight: “The hand that rocks the cradle is the hand that rules the world.” In contemporary American life, … Continue reading
Editor’s note: This article first appeared at The American Spectator. The Spanish philosopher José Ortega y Gasset wrote, “Tell me what you pay attention to and I will tell you who you are.” In light of American pop culture, … Continue reading
Edwin (Ed) Feulner, Jr., Ph.D., was one of those special individuals whose influence on our lives far exceeded his fame. Best known in conservative circles as one of the two co-founders (along with the late Paul Weyrich) of the Heritage … Continue reading
These are trying times for American colleges and universities. They face rising costs, a potential reduction in federal funding, grade inflation, the challenge of AI, alleged liberal political and social bias, claims that a college degree is not worth the … Continue reading
One hundred years ago this month, the United States and even the world turned its attention to Dayton, Tennessee, to witness a trial purported to be a showdown between modern science and backwards religion. Despite the widespread media coverage, or … Continue reading
America Needs a Rational Energy Policy With rapidly evolving technologies such as artificial intelligence, ever-larger data centers, cloud computing, quantum computing, etc., causing our society’s demand for electricity to increase at an accelerating rate, it is imperative that we find … Continue reading
One billion dollars of product is produced each year by the informal economy of the Dharavi slum in India. Many have called it a “money-minting” economy. How is that possible in a squalid, seemingly uninhabitable slum? The facts behind this … Continue reading
Editor’s note: This article first appeared at The American Spectator. Growing up in Butler, Pennsylvania in the 1970s and 1980s, I surely at some point must have encountered a book titled Butler, but it would have been at the town … Continue reading
I had to go to show my respect. I felt compelled to watch the motorcade escort this warrior to his true and final resting place. Glenn Herbert Hodak, U.S. Army Air Forces Corporal, of Cambridge Springs, PA, came home this … Continue reading
Editor’s note: This article first appeared at The American Spectator. The world is watching every word and move of the new head of the Catholic Church, Pope Leo XIV, formerly known as Robert Francis Prevost. I say formerly because, as … Continue reading
