Signs of Healing in Ferguson
We’ve had plenty of rhetorical villains since the fatal police shooting of a black teen in Ferguson, Missouri, little more than grandstanders stirring up fear in vengeful tones. And we’ve had violence...
View ArticleMy first time voting
(Centennial Fellow) When I lived in China, we never had voting rights and all government officials were appointed, not voted for. Therefore, as ordinary citizens, we could never hold our leaders...
View ArticleThree bombshells, one bottom line
(’76 Contributor) Three times in my life I have discovered research whose conclusions were so earth-shattering to me that they were conceptual bombshells. Their conclusions are revolutionary or can be...
View ArticleA Christian response to militant Islam
The advance of militant Islam with all of the terror attacks around the world in our lifetimes is one of the major issues of our lives. From attacks on targets in Africa, India, Pakistan, England, and...
View ArticleConservatives would be wise to resist populist temptations
It’s a not uncommon phenomena in American politics for left and right to circumnavigate the spectrum and forge periodic and unlikely alliances. This is particularly prone to occur when elements of the...
View ArticleLet us now praise political polarization
(By Bill Moloney, ’76 Contributor) In U.S. political discourse today there are few more popular attitudes then the endless lamentations over “political polarization”. The Cassandras insist that...
View ArticleHow Good Intentions Crippled Economic Justice
(By Tegan Truitt, 1776 Scholar) The famed observer of democracy, Alexis de Tocqueville, writes that, though democratic nations love freedom, “for equality they have an ardent, insatiable, eternal,...
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