The latest eyebrow-raising twist in the Epstein saga isn’t just about what’s buried inside the files. It’s about reports that the Department of Justice has been tracking lawmakers’ searches of those very records, monitoring who’s looking, and possibly what they’re looking for. Let that sink in. Members of Congress—people with oversight authority over federal agencies—access…
Howard Lutnick and the Long, Uncomfortable Shadow of Jeffrey Epstein
Let’s just say it plainly: no one wants their name anywhere near Jeffrey Epstein’s. Not in a headline. Not in a footnote. Not even in the same paragraph. And yet here we are, with Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick facing renewed scrutiny over past associations within elite financial and social circles where Epstein also operated. Now,…
History, Power, and the Peril of Governing by Spectacle
The controversy surrounding President Trump’s attempted National Guard deployments to major U.S. cities is not merely a skirmish over public safety policy. It is a revealing moment about how power is exercised, justified, and constrained in a constitutional republic, and about what happens when political theater collides with historical and legal reality. At its core,…
Justice That Takes Life Seriously: Why the Death Penalty Remains Morally Just
Donald Trump’s renewed push to expand and emphasize the death penalty, particularly for murder, has reignited a debate that is often framed almost entirely in emotional or political terms. Yet beneath the rhetoric lies a far more serious moral question: does justice require that the taking of innocent human life be met with the most…
Restoring Accountability: A Pauline Diagnosis for America
If the Apostle Paul were alive today — which, theologically speaking, he most certainly is, just not in Washington, D.C. — he would probably take one long look at our national headlines, sigh deeply, and begin writing another epistle. Not to the Corinthians this time, nor the Galatians, nor the Thessalonians, but perhaps “Paul, an…
America’s Institutions Are Sewing Fig Leaves
“In the beginning God created the heaven and the earth” (Genesis 1:1). With that majestic sentence, Scripture establishes a pattern that has echoed through human history: God brings order out of chaos, purpose out of emptiness, beauty out of the void. In six days, He shapes the cosmos with deliberate precision. Light obeys Him. Oceans…
Washington Needs Less Drama and More Decency
If you’ve glanced at the headlines lately, you may have noticed that Washington is starting to look less like the capital of the world’s greatest republic and more like a crossover episode of CSI, Survivor, and The Office. We’ve got Congress hauling in Jack Smith for a closed-door testimony that he wanted to give in…
Mixed Signals in the War on Drugs
The U.S. scored a hard-fought win with the guilty plea of Joaquín Guzmán López — son of infamously brutal cartel boss Joaquín “El Chapo” Guzmán — a leader in the cartel faction known as “Los Chapitos.” He admitted overseeing massive trafficking of fentanyl, heroin, cocaine and other narcotics into the United States. That’s the kind…
America Doesn’t Need More Drama; It Needs Adults in the Room
If there’s a unifying theme in Washington lately, it’s this: everyone wants accountability, just not for themselves. Whether it’s a shaky ethics probe, a cell-phone-records carve-out, a D.C. National Guard face-off, or the Justice Department playing investigator of the investigators, the common thread is that too many leaders seem allergic to the hard work of…
Integrity Isn’t Optional
If the past few weeks in American public life have taught us anything, it’s this: accountability is a universal need, not a partisan accessory. Whether you’re a tech titan, a big-city mayor, a former FBI director, or a Republican getting a little too comfortable in your seat, the same basic truth applies: character matters. And…
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