With all the attention commanded by the presidential campaign, election, and aftermath, plus the ongoing COVID-19 story, many other issues have faded into the background. Though escaping the headlines, some of these other issues will be with us for a … Continue reading
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History and War: A Veterans Day Reflection
For 50 years, I have had one foot planted in Sparta and one in Athens: the military and the academy. The dichotomy is not simply between militarism and intellectualism. Athenians Socrates, Plato, and Aristotle were soldiers as well as philosophers. … Continue reading
The Mayflower Mystique: Remembering the Pilgrims
Few can name which groups the Godspeed and the Arabella brought to America. They were the Jamestown colonists in 1607 and the Puritans to Massachusetts Bay Colony in 1630, respectively. But the Mayflower, which brought the Pilgrims to Plymouth in … Continue reading
Court Packing—Destabilizing and Unnecessary
The idea of expanding the size of the U.S. Supreme Court, also known as “court packing,” has surfaced once again, as it did after the Brett Kavanaugh appointment. Often mentioned is a proposal by Erwin Chemerinsky, dean of University of … Continue reading
Why Fracking is a Big Issue
In my previous column, I described the “paradox of prosperity”—the strange tendency of many people who have benefited from economic advances to denounce and vilify the source of their prosperity, a sort of “bite-the-hand-that-feeds-you” phenomenon. One example of this syndrome … Continue reading
50 Years Ago, Solzhenitsyn Received the Nobel Prize for Reminding Us of a ‘Forgotten God’
Editor’s note: A version of this article first appeared at National Catholic Register. “In 1949, some friends and I came upon a noteworthy news item in Nature, a magazine of the Academy of Sciences.” So opens Alexander Solzhenitsyn’s majestic The Gulag Archipelago, … Continue reading
Judge Amy Coney Barrett and the Purdue Sexual Assault Case
Will some senators on the Senate Judiciary Committee vilify Judge Amy Coney Barrett, President Trump’s Supreme Court nominee? Attacks on her religion, her large family, or claims that she will block the advance of women may make good fodder for … Continue reading
The Paradox of Prosperity
In Friedrich Hayek’s 1954 book Capitalism and the Historians, the late French philosopher and political economist Bertrand de Jouvenel noted a baffling historical trend: “Strangely enough, the fall from favor of the money-maker coincides with an increase in his social … Continue reading
VIDEO – Election 2016 vs. 2020: The Woman Who Called the 2016 Presidential Race
Election 2016 vs. 2020: The Woman Who Called the 2016 Presidential Race with Paul Kengor & Salena Zito Salena Zito joined the Washington Examiner in 2016 as a Pittsburgh-based columnist and reporter, and is also a columnist at the New … Continue reading
Marx on Christianity, Judaism, and Evolution/Race
“If someone calls it socialism,” said the Rev. William Barber at an August 2019 conference of the Democratic National Committee, “then we must compel them to acknowledge that the Bible must then promote socialism, because Jesus offered free health care … Continue reading
I Like Ike
As other statues and monuments are being removed or criticized throughout our nation, a new $150 million memorial located near the U.S. Capitol will be dedicated Thursday honoring the general who helped defeat the Axis Powers in World War II … Continue reading
Friends of Flight 93 Speaker Series Featuring Hon. Paul J. McNulty
Hon. Paul J. McNulty, president of Grove City College, discusses his experience as the lead prosecutor in the Zacarias Moussaoui trial and later his role as deputy attorney general under President George W. Bush. Watch it on YouTube here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mlPLqQZiJlw&feature=youtu.be … Continue reading
September 11: Nineteen Years On, A Remembrance
A late summer, early morning dawn greeted me as I pulled into the faculty parking lot at Grove City College, a small, Christian liberal arts school in northwestern Pennsylvania. As I walked to my office, I marveled at the bright … Continue reading
Remembering and Teaching 9/11
Editor’s note: This first appeared in the Pittsburgh Tribune Review in 2018. This year’s remembrances of September 11, 2001 were odd for me. Consider: Did you ever think you’d live to see a time when the new generation doesn’t remember … Continue reading
The Call to Sacrifice and Commitment: The Letters of a WWII Sailor
Since my dad’s passing, I have carried his dog tag on my key chain. I wanted a daily reminder of my dad and his sacrificial service to our nation in World War II. My dad was the classic WWII vet … Continue reading
Why Did They Steal Our Flag?
For 20 years we have lived in our current home in humble Grove City, Pennsylvania. It came with a nice flagpole mounted on the front. We change the flag a lot. Sometimes we display flags with various types of art … Continue reading
The Devil and Karl Marx | Dr. Paul Kengor on the “The Michael Knowles Show”
Jimmy Lai, The Billionaire Freedom Fighter
Hong Kong police arrested billionaire publisher Jimmy Lai on August 10, releasing him two days later. His “crime” was to express opposition to the mainland Chinese Communist Party’s (CCP) aggression against Hong Kong – both in person and through the … Continue reading
Confessions of a Draft Dodger
“And we know that to them who love God all things work together for good to them that are called according to his purpose.” Romans 8:28 Next month I turn 75. The ubiquitous “they” tell me I’m on a COVID-19 … Continue reading
The Problem with Inheritance Taxes
A recent opinion piece in The New York Times, “Tax the Rich and Their Heirs … more fairly,” was both reassuring and refreshing. It was reassuring to know that policy debates about relatively prosaic public policy issues continue to be … Continue reading