In a cute sailor jacket with “je t’aime” embroidered in white thread over the heart, Hillsong Church pastor Carl Lentz discussed faith and politics on “The View” talk show last week. Despite his charming nod to French tenderness (and its $2600 Saint Laurent price tag), he forgot to extend his “I love you” to all...
Your mother may have told you that a half-truth is a lie, but she wasn’t a professional fact checker. At the Washington Post, fact checkers slap statements with up to four Pinocchios, and fact-checking site PolitiFact has a “Truth-O-Meter” with six shades of true and false — including, heaven forbid, “Pants on Fire.” Fact checkers...
When I decided to work and live on a communal farm that produces organic vegetables in the summer of 2016, I anticipated finding my vocation in a state of pastoral bliss. Instead, I found humility. I will be honest, the decision to move to the farm was fueled by reading a lot of agrarian literature...
We human beings are peculiar creatures. In addition to reason, reflection, and contemplation, we have been blessed with the ability to deliberate through language. Conversations form friendships, settle disputes, and from them the liberal arts spring to life. Hillsdale College students are benefactors of an academic environment that champions intellectual liberty to pursue truth both...
The Asian cold war conflict originally escalated from two diametrically opposed ideologies. A division between the communist north and the democratic south primed the country for civil war. As casualties eclipsed million after million and up to 30 percent of the north’s population was slaughtered, a profoundly deep anti-American sentiment festered. No, this isn’t Vietnam:...