Writing in the Spring 2022 issue of The New Atlantis, British author Kit Wilson wonders if the Internet is endangering our mental health by metaphorically burying us in words. In support of this conclusion, he cites some statistics. For example, a report that the prestigious management-consulting firm
Although the world knows that the Dalai Lama lives in exile and is the face of Chinese repression in Tibet, and the media has shone a light on the persecution suffered by the Uyghurs in the Muslim region of Xinjiang, the “relentless, albeit silent, control”
April 2022 would have marked Dani Laurion’s thirteenth year confined to a wheelchair. But instead, for the past month or so, Dani has been strolling around Lansing as if those dozen infirm years had never happened. At a Catholic healing service held at St. Mary
Decades of fiscal irresponsibility, manifested in routine trillion dollar budget deficits, near bankrupt Social Security and related parts of the social safety net, and Federal Reserve funny money policies have contributed importantly to the current fiscal, and even moral malaise that is rapidly sinking the
Pro-life activists who conducted a defense of the unborn at a Michigan abortion center were physically assaulted by its security guards. On Saturday, April 23, 2022, a Red Rose Rescue took place at the Northland Family Planning abortion center, one of three abortion centers owned
My first published analysis of some dimension of higher education occurred during the administration of John F. Kennedy. 11 men have been U.S. president since. The pace of my commentary on higher education rose to new heights in 2018 when I began to write five
Access to media and social communications in the home has been a blessing to many, opening grace-filled avenues that have brought families together in various ways. However, this same access has also brought many harmful elements into the home, destroying families and fostering addictions that lead a
Officials from the Vatican are in the U.S. to investigate possible miracles attributed to the intercession of Venerable Fr. Augustus Tolton. The representatives of the Church have traveled to Quincy, Illinois, where Ft. Tolten was buried. If the team can verify at least one miracle attributed to
Afghanistan and four other countries should be added to the ten countries already recognized by the U.S. State Department for having particular religious freedom problems, the U.S. Commission on Interreligious Freedom said in its annual report released Monday. “We are disheartened by the deterioration of freedom of
Something is afoot when two New York Times columnists, Charles Blow on the left and Ross Douthat on the right, both make the identical observation in Monday’s edition. Blow, who fears a “Biden blood bath” in the November midterms, underscored that Quinnipiac polling shows President
