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Peter LaffinAmerican Thinker |
I had only a ballpark idea of the national debt before this week. Like most people, I knew it was in the tens of trillions, which meant that it was...
I had only a ballpark idea of the national debt before this week. Like most people, I knew it was in the tens of trillions, which meant that it was...
In the fall of 2020, I taught a course at an independent high school in Boulder, Colorado , on persuasive essay writing. It won’t stun anyone...
Kaylee McGhee White, our editor for the Washington Examiner’s Restoring America project, recently described our section as the effort to “bring...
A shocking claim at the heart of Christianity is that God, the creator and sustaining force of existence, took on human flesh in the person of Jesus...
A column I wrote a few months back peeved one reader so much that she wrote me a 2,900-word response sent as a Word Document attachment,...
Headlines that warn of impending doom for the diversity, equity, and inclusion industrial complex have accelerated in recent months, sparking fears...
Like the vast majority of people, including a growing number of Republicans from the party's populist wing, I am sympathetic to the idea of a...
As with every Thanksgiving, news consumers nationwide have braced themselves once more for a deluge of articles on the positive effects of expressing...
It was easy to see coming, but that doesn’t make it any less disorienting or obscene. On TikTok this week, thousands of videos began to circulate...
The results of a recent New York Times / Siena poll that showed independent presidential candidate Robert F. Kennedy Jr. with unprecedented...
Since the mid-2010s, cultural progressivism has been the dominant moral force in American life. In what felt like a blink, a crude and ill-considered...
Archbishop Fulton J. Sheen, whose show Life is Worth Living made him an unlikely TV star of the 1950s, liked to tell his audience the following story...
Three years ago, the Biden administration commenced its foreign policy agenda by assuring allies that America was "back” from its brief spell of...
Like many who watched the Hamas attacks unfold on television, the images of burnt-alive bodies and child corpses being piled into shabby truck beds...
Pope Francis’s recent statement on the blessing of same-sex unions sent shockwaves through the global Catholic Church and the world at large. In...
The Hamas terrorist attacks unfolding in the south of Israel have shocked the conscience of the world and prompted Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin...
The principle of objectivity has fallen out of favor with Americans in recent years, a development that coincides with a sharp decline in belief in...
Did anybody catch the funeral that posed as a Republican primary debate on Wednesday night? It would have been difficult to stage a more joyless...
In October 2018, Sarah Lawrence College professor Samuel Abrams penned an op-ed in the New York Times that detailed the growing ideological...
Though it’s been debated for years, the idea of paying reparations to address the legacy of slavery has been gathering steam, especially in...
In May 2021, the Tk’emlups te Secwépemc people , an indigenous tribe in southern British Columbia, announced the discovery of a mass grave...
I’ll never forget how much I liked Dr. Anthony Fauci when I first heard him speak — how given I was to trusting him. It was early March in 2020,...