A Christ-less Creed It has been said that America is a creedal nation, a people based not on ethnicity but on a shared idea, on a set of beliefs held in common. There is much truth to this description. The American founding set forth a particular view of man and invited men from all over … Continue reading What of America?

Societal Disintegration We're in the midst of societal disintegration. The America we've known up to now is passing away. It won't be restored. Not that it deserves to be. Much of what made up that old America has been passing away for decades or generations. The foundations of our republic were hauled away long ago. … Continue reading America Confounded

America is being targeted for destruction by those accusing it of being systemically racist. It is a false accusation. While America has many sins in its history, this is not one of them. Not only is America not currently systemically racist, it never was systemically racist. That's because systemic racism is not a thing. It's … Continue reading Systemic Racism

One of the major difficulties in deciding how to respond to the various lockdown orders around the country is the question of prudence; what sort of behavior is prudent in light of the pandemic? This question is one which the lockdown orders have entirely sidestepped, which is why the title of this post references sleight … Continue reading Lockdown Sleight of Hand

The terrible response to the coronavirus pandemic seems like an aberration in American life and governance, and certainly it is a break with the past having essentially no precedent in American law or custom. But there is another way in which it is not an aberration at all, but rather is the sort of thing … Continue reading American style totalitarianism

In this post I will argue that stay at home orders, particularly those issued by the Director of the Ohio Department of Health, are unconstitutional and illegal. A society in which a general stay at home order is legal is not a free society. Policy vs. Authority I have disagreed with much of the various … Continue reading Stay at home is unconstitutional

Among the many things that are unstable in America today is the meaning of Christian conservatism. For decades now, the foremost form of American conservatism has primarily been fusionism, a blend of social conservatism and economic libertarianism. Christian conservatism has largely been a bible-flavored version of this. Reliance on the bible gives the social commentary … Continue reading Drag Queens and David French

C.S. Lewis' Abolition of Man points us to the lie that cripples parenting today. Briefly comprehended, the problem is that “modern” people do not believe in the universal standard of goodness that is shared in common by all humanity. I say “the standard,” rather than “a standard,” because there is, in fact, only one real … Continue reading The Abolition of Parenting

"Children, obey your parents in the Lord: for this is right." This well-known commandment to Christian children contains the phrase "in the lord." The meaning of that phrase in this verse has been interpreted in two different ways: some have said that the child is to be in the lord, others have said that the … Continue reading Obey in the Lord