By lapsing headlong into partisan politics, especially on controversial matters such as “social issues,” otherwise known as “culture wars,” ...

Taylor Swift, an American singer and cultural icon in 2023, spoke “out against anti-queer legislation” during a concert in early June. “We c...

A salient aspect of the U.S. Constitution is the separation of church and state. A government cannot establish or show preference for a reli...

Having watched Oliver Stone's lengthy interviews of Vladimir Putin, President of the Russian Federation, which had been taped several ye...

Ideally, a person is able to earn money doing something that matches one's authentic self. In other words, working in a field that is al...

American higher education contains its own erroneous nomenclature. Most notably, people having earned one degree in law or medicine are told...

In  the 2000s, I had the honor of studying under Patrick Riley, a scholar of historical moral, religious, and political thought. Even though...

Among Quakers (many congregations of which refuse to record ministers), some evangelical congregations, and other faiths such as Baha'i...

What is religion? What does the domain of religion cover? What is excluded? Does opinion eclipse knowledge in marking the boundaries? Should...

 Is elitism ethical when it seeks to portray itself as favoring racial diversity after having been accused from within of being racist again...

Common sense would perhaps dictate that a company sporting a managerial culture of pathological lying as the default way of dealing with sta...

A young library supervisor of student workers at Rockford University insisted that Christmas is only a private holiday because it is exclusi...

The rule of a few—aristocracy. The rule of the wealthy—plutocracy. Where the few, being valued above the many, are determined principally on...

The matter of how the U.S. President is to be selected was a tough nut for the delegates in the Constitutional Convention in 1787 to crack. ...

 According to CNN’s website, the “sobering truth about the harvest feast that inspired Thanksgiving” is is the fact that colonists killed In...