trending impressively toward a future where everybody is super hot, and nobody is having sex

People's very open disdain for the disabled, always under the guise of false mercy, is the result of a false self-image. What we lose is our humanity, Claire. We are dependent, vulnerable, and each one of us potentially, at any moment, subject to disablement/disease.

'We pronounce their names one by one' Cardinal Zuppi read out the names of every child who has died in the Gaza conflict during a prayer vigil on the Eve of the Assumption The list was 469 pages long and took SEVEN HOURS to read It included the Israeli children killed on

"If we stop producing people who are trained or educated to help undergraduates understand the most important things thought or written or painted in human history,” the renowned philosopher Robert Pippin said, “we might not be able to recover that.” 🎯

Prayer is not an escape from reality. It is the very place we meet Christ, who Himself was unjustly slain. We will continue to pray, not because we are passive, but because we know only God can bring true justice, healing, and peace. Evil wants us to stop praying and to despair.

Yikes. theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/…

I am at an elite university today to discuss the state of our universities and the need for civil and open exchange of ideas and as I am preparing my remarks I see that Charlie Kirk was shot on a campus today. Lord, have mercy. It is so hard not to despair.

In the last few years we've seen: - The plot to kidnap Gretchen Whitmer - The Storming of the Capitol and pipe bombs left at the RNC and DNC - The break-in to kidnap Nancy Pelosi and the brutal on Paul Pelosi - Multiple assassination attempts against Trump - The assassination

There is no hate speech exception to the First Amendment. Nevertheless, the attorney general says "there's free speech, and then there's hate speech," and the government will "target you, go after you, if you are targeting anyone with hate speech." The attorney general would be

If you reach your goals by compromising your values, you haven’t succeeded. If you fall short of your goals by upholding your values, you haven’t failed. The true measure of accomplishment is standing by your principles when they’re tested.

I'm teaching "Political Theology" The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill next spring. I don't think there's been a course like it here in the last 125 years or so, if ever. It should be good. If you want to think & talk about politics, God, nationalism, justice, common good, & the anti-Christ, you should take it.

“AI is going to revolutionize law!” Dawg look at this redline from opposing counsel. This generation is cooked.

"The people who were arrested or approached included a man participating in a church cleanup day, workers at a Home Depot, a landscaper putting up Christmas decorations and a Hispanic U.S. citizen whose truck window was shattered by an agent." nytimes.com/2025/11/16/us/…

"Many adults struggle to concentrate on work when social media, shopping and movies are just a click away. Imagine how much more difficult it is for a 16-year-old, much less an 11-year-old, to focus in the same situation." nytimes.com/2025/11/16/opi…

I cannot count how many math "strategies" (including journaling?) across multiple grades my kids were taught at one of the best public elementary schools in the country. It was a disaster that took years (and a new school) to right. tinyurl.com/2tfrd4ur

“Academic accommodations for anxiety convey two harmful messages. First, they imply that the feared situation is truly dangerous. Public speaking, testing, or lunch with classmates are too risky for a student. Second, they suggest that the student can’t withstand the distress.

The Pentagon’s actions are clear retaliation for something Sen. Kelly is entirely within his rights to say. America’s servicemembers already take an oath to uphold the Constitution, which includes not following illegal orders. The argument that the video’s message is sedition, or