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Monday, February 14, 2022

Flores' Complaint

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Former Miami Dolphins coach Brian Flores is suing the NFL, claiming it's racist because the percentage of black head coaches and front o...
Saturday, February 12, 2022

Rules for Thee but Not for Me

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In the midst of the pandemic I had a conversation with a friend who was upset that some people weren't social distancing or masking up i...
Friday, February 11, 2022

Something From Nothing

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Contemporary naturalistic scientists have a problem. It's very hard to explain in naturalistic terms how the universe could have come in...
Thursday, February 10, 2022

Flexible Principles

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GoFundMe stirred up a controversy recently when they decided that the Canadian truckers protest in Ottawa violated their principles. They cl...
Wednesday, February 9, 2022

The Beauty of American Freedom

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The last couple of days the theme here at Viewpoint has been freedom, especially freedom of speech. I urge you to watch this video featurin...
Tuesday, February 8, 2022

Bolstering Free Speech

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Yesterday I mused on why today's university administrators don't have the same courage to guarantee on their campuses freedom to bot...
Monday, February 7, 2022

Frederick Douglass and Cancel Culture

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In his new book The President and the Freedom Fighter (Abraham Lincoln and Frederick Douglass) author Brian Kilmeade describes an event inv...
Saturday, February 5, 2022

Aristotle and Nietzsche

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Most ethical systems in our contemporary world can probably be subsumed under the names of either Aristotle or Nietzsche. Aristotle thought ...
Friday, February 4, 2022

The Next Taboo

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Recently I speculated on VP as to which would be the next taboo to fall in our culture, a culture which seems determined to topple every ta...
Thursday, February 3, 2022

If Only We Knew Then What We Know Now

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A team of scholars at the Johns Hopkins Institute for Applied Economics, Global Health, and the Study of Business Enterprise conducted a rev...
Wednesday, February 2, 2022

The Worst Enemy of Black People

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As we embark upon Black History Month it might be of interest to reprise a piece written several years ago based on an article by the late W...
Tuesday, February 1, 2022

The Amazing Ant

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One part of a larger interview at Mind Matters with Eric Cassell, the author of Animal Algorithms , focusses on the navigational abilities ...
Monday, January 31, 2022

A Form of Madness

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The latest attempt to shut someone down for voicing opinions the left doesn't like is the effort to force Ilya Shapiro out of his positi...
Saturday, January 29, 2022

Disagreeing in Love

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Why is it that we can't have disagreements about politics, religion, whether to get vaccinated or not, climate change, evolution or a ho...
Friday, January 28, 2022

What'll Be the Next Taboo to Fall?

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Since the sexual revolution of the 1960s those of a certain age have witnessed one taboo, one traditional moral value after another collapse...
Thursday, January 27, 2022

The Crisis in Ukraine

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Fears are growing that there’ll soon be war in Ukraine. Russia has massed a powerful military force on Ukraine's borders and appears det...
Wednesday, January 26, 2022

Scientism and Self-Refutation

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Philosopher J.P.Moreland has written a fine book titled Scientism and Secularism (2018) from which some of what follows has been borrowed. ...
Tuesday, January 25, 2022

Best Information Storage System Ever

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One of the marvels of DNA, the material in every nucleus in every cell in our bodies that carries the genetic instructions necessary for for...
Monday, January 24, 2022

Are Whales Designed?

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The John 10:10 project has released an 8 minute video that examines the likelihood that whales could have evolved from terrestrial ancestors...
Saturday, January 22, 2022

Who Are the Real Authoritarians?

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My grandson was telling me recently that he has a prof at the college he attends who's a liberal Democrat who tells his students that th...