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Over 13 million people watched the Netflix celebrity roast of comedian Kevin Hart. Irreverent insults are part of roasting, but the recent series of celebrity roasting has featured increasingly outrageous and often profane jokes, from mocking abortions to vilifying women. However, Hart’s roast has won the prize for the vilest yet. The extremely inappropriate comments made at this […]
Brought to you by Right now, a negotiation is underway. Somewhere in your state, or perhaps in a county or city where you live, technology companies are promising increased tax revenues, expanded job opportunities, and the honor of hosting the infrastructure of the future. Underfunded local governments, eager and almost certainly unequipped to fully evaluate […]
Brought to you by In January 2011, a student at Southern Methodist University asked former President George W. Bush about the challenges facing democracy. Bush’s answer was simple: the rise of “-isms.” In particular, Bush spoke about isolationism, protectionism, and nativism. These, he warned, have a way of appearing in history together. He described them […]
In January, statistician Ryan Burge posted a demographic breakdown of 20 Protestant denominations, showing the percentage of “Boomers” in each. Across Protestant denominations, both mainline and evangelical, a disproportionately large number of congregants are in their 60s, 70s, and 80s. The aging faithful within our congregations are a blessing and an essential resource that is too […]
A video circulating recently on social media appears to show the late comedian George Carlin delivering a razor-sharp critique of political tribalism. In the clip, “Carlin” argues that when ideology becomes identity, people defend their ideas not because they’re true, but because those ideas have become indistinguishable from who they are. Evidence becomes optional. And […]
This past weekend, a pair of events drew global audiences. The Opening Ceremonies of the 2026 Milan-Cortina Winter Olympics and Super Bowl LX in San Francisco are the most recent installments of events that have become contemporary cultural flashpoints and feature the clash of worldviews. Thankfully, this year’s Opening Ceremonies were tame compared to recent […]
As we approach the end of another year, many are scratching their head as to whether we are in the midst of a Gen Z revival, still in the throes of the ongoing rise of the “nones,” experiencing a decline in the number of Christians, or seeing a return to the growth of religion. It […]
Over the last several decades, radical feminist ideas have successfully convinced generations of young people that women don’t need men, that children should never come before a woman’s career, that masculinity is toxic, that sex is “free,” and that “a woman can do anything a man can do, and with heels on.” As a result, fewer young women aim to be wives or mothers, and many who do are ashamed to admit it. Instead, women have been taught to see the procreative aspects of who they are […]
Everywhere we turn, people seem to be using Artificial Intelligence (AI) to do something new. I’m not opposed to using AI, but we need to think carefully about how using AI might disrupt human society. While we might consider the potential for AI to replace human effort, we also need to consider how AI is […]
According to a recent article in The Atlantic, there’s a new hit band that doesn’t really exist. Velvet Sundown got one million hits on Spotify before the wider public realized they were completely AI-generated. Manufactured musical acts are nothing new, but at least boy bands and The Monkees were made up of dancing, singing, living […]