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Acquire Ethical Clarity by Embracing Moral Ambiguity Apr. 18, 2025
You may have heard this before: Statistically, automobile accidents more often happen at dusk. Once ... Read More
This Election Season, Let's Choose Productive Public Discourse Mar. 08, 2024
It's time. Super Tuesday is over, and America is deep into an election season faced with two very fa... Read More
Keep Contempt Out of Your Conversations: Our Children Are Watching Oct. 21, 2022
Midterm elections are upon us, and what I dread the most is the amped-up online vitriol in my newsfe... Read More
Campus Free-Speech Problems Come Down to Culture Mar. 17, 2022
We've all heard stories about university administrators cracking down on free speech. But free expre... Read More
The 21st Century: A Flop So Far Dec. 29, 2021
A child in the '60s, when the world was turning fast, I loved the upbeat '90s' carbonated peace and ... Read More
Fake-News Peddlers Like the Gateway Pundit Can Wreak Havoc in the Real World Dec. 10, 2021
Normally, the St. Louis-based website The Gateway Pundit can and should be laughed off as right-wing... Read More
Let's Argue for Argument's Sake, Good Naturedly and With Humility Oct. 07, 2021
When did we decide that arguing was intolerable? Possibly it was when we determined that arguments w... Read More
Free Speech, or a Recognized Right To Be Disruptive and Rude? Sep. 08, 2021
Radical right members of local councils and school boards around the country are energized like neve... Read More
An Abundance of Grace Nov. 29, 2019
Two weeks ago, two prominent evangelical supporters of President Donald Trump, Eric Metaxas and Fran... Read More
Do You Really Want America to Look Like Twitter? Jun. 29, 2018
It looks as if the next phase of our ginned-up national moral panic will feature the public shunning... Read More
Missing Kate O'Beirne Apr. 29, 2017
My adopted hometown of Washington has been accused, not always unfairly, of being a city full of sch... Read More
Whoa to Our Runaway Tongues Oct. 15, 2014
In May 1997, I was a reporter assigned to interview spiritual author Deepak Chopra, who upon meeting... Read More
Rudeness Is the New Normal Jun. 11, 2012
Would you believe me if I told you that 82 percent of Americans believe the media are more intereste... Read More
