In 1954, President Dwight D. Eisenhower addressed the Republican Lincoln Day Dinners. In his speech, he discussed the role of unelected citizens in their government. For Eisenhower, “politics ought to...
New York Times reporter Richard Fausset, traveled to Ohio this fall to interview a white nationalist. The resulting piece, “A Voice of Hate in America’s Heartland,” drew an enormous amount of criticism...
There is almost no doubt about the American imagination that President Trump is dividing people. Some think it’s on the basis of gender, some believe on the basis of sex, others believe he simply thrives...
In the aftermath of the heinous New York City truck attack last week, President Trump came under a fair bit of heat for some comments he made regarding a certain immigration lottery program that allowed...
Whether it’s the “blood libels” of early modern Europe, Germany in the 1930s, Charlottesville, Virginia in 2017, or even Occupy Wall Street, any person of good will should be able to detect the pattern:...
While perusing the pages of YouTube this week, I came across a video by the famous “Crash Course” regarding the arguments for God’s existence put forth in the Summa Theologiae by St. Thomas Aquinas....
In the last presidential administration, Executive Orders were a constant topic of conversation. In the Trump administration, the conversation has continued pace. Along the way, the point of these orders...
CNN has recently called the late night host/political commentator Jimmy Kimmel “America’s conscience.” This may very well be true, but it is not a compliment. The late night host has inserted himself...
A problem has been growing almost unnoticed in American life for a little over a century. It is evident by the way dewy-eyed conservatives talk about President Ronald Reagan. It is evident by the way Stephen...
In the realm of politics, religion can be a sword and it can be a shield. On Sept. 6, for Senator Dianne Feinstein, member of the Senate Judiciary Committee, it was a sword. Taking place was a hearing...
The leadership of Donald Trump has given the American people the illusion that he is the iconic figure of our disagreement. Many people feel that everyone would be able to come together if not for the...
To many of our voting population in the United States, one could easily bring to mind a movie scene that, at first, might seem to provide a satisfactory analogy of President Trump’s recent behavior....
