The Ten Commandments are headed toward another possible encounter with the Supreme Court, this time by way of Texas, two groups of public-school families, and a sharply divided federal appeals court. On August 17, more than two dozen Christian, Jewish, Hindu, Baha’i, Unitarian Universalist, and nonreligious families asked the Supreme Court to review Texas Senate…
Texas Wants Bible Stories in Public Schools. Cue the Culture-War Sirens.
Texas has decided to toss another log onto America’s favorite never-ending bonfire: religion in public schools. On Friday, the Texas State Board of Education approved a required reading list for more than 5 million public school students that includes Bible stories and passages. The list, set to begin taking effect in 2030, includes biblical selections…
When Church Meets State Funding: Colorado’s Preschool Mandate Showdown
At first glance, this looks like just another culture-war headline: religion versus LGBTQ rights, round 9,742. But if you slow down for a minute, this case is less about slogans and more about a genuinely hard constitutional question that doesn’t have a clean, satisfying answer. Colorado has created a universal preschool program funded by taxpayer…
Amy Klobuchar for Governor: Competent, Courteous… and Still a Problem
When Amy Klobuchar jumped into the race for governor of Minnesota, no one spilled their coffee in surprise. This wasn’t a plot twist. It was a career politician making a very logical career move. Klobuchar has been circling the governor’s mansion for years, and with the field suddenly opening up, she stepped in like someone…
Trump, the March for Life, and the Moral Weight of Accountability
When President Trump addressed the annual March for Life, he framed the defense of unborn life as a battle that must be fought and won, not merely through legislation, but in the moral imagination of the nation. It was language of resolve rather than novelty and conviction rather than calculation. In a post-Dobbs landscape where…
The Greenland Gambit
As Senate Republicans move to block President Trump from advancing his renewed push to assert American control over Greenland, the moment is more than a routine intraparty disagreement. It reveals a deeper fault line running through American politics: the difference between raw power and rightly ordered authority. At stake is not merely an unconventional foreign…
Why Wyoming’s Ruling Gets the Moral Question Wrong
The recent decision by the Wyoming Supreme Court to strike down the state’s abortion restrictions rests on a pivotal claim: that abortion falls within a constitutional right to make one’s own healthcare decisions. That framing is not merely a legal conclusion. It’s a moral assertion with sweeping consequences. And it is, in most cases, profoundly…
Power Without Righteousness Is Not Strength
Yesterday’s closed-door briefing to lawmakers on U.S. actions in Venezuela did little to resolve the most troubling questions raised by the operation. If anything, it exposed a widening gap between executive power and moral clarity. Members of Congress emerged divided not merely over tactics or outcomes, but over first principles: who authorizes force, what limits…
Compassion Without Authority Invites Corruption
The federal freeze on childcare funding in Minnesota is the predictable outcome of a governing philosophy that elevates empathy and expansion while treating authority, discipline, and enforcement as secondary concerns. The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services didn’t freeze funding because Minnesota cared too much about families. It froze funding because federal officials no…
Kasuwan-Daji, Moral Collapse, and the Cost of Delayed Judgment
The massacre at Kasuwan-Daji village in Niger State, where armed attackers reportedly killed dozens, burned the local market, abducted residents, and operated for hours with little or no immediate resistance, is not merely another tragic headline from Nigeria. It’s a stark exposure of what happens when violence becomes normalized and the state’s protective role erodes…
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