Editor’s note: The following is an edited version of a speech delivered at the 18th annual Bradley Prizes ceremony on May 17, 2022. You’ve heard it said that anecdotes are not data. But so much the worse for data. Stories are what make the world go round. Stories are
Consider the world’s two most novel diseases. When the first, Covid-19, traversed the globe with record alacrity, people were both required by law and urged by society to “stop the spread.” Lockdowns. Remote work. Shuttered schools. Masks. Social distancing. Hospitals and nursing homes sealed off
When a 15-year-old student opened fire at Oxford High School in Michigan last November, according to police, students and teachers quickly hid in classrooms and barricaded doors. Police rushed in and apprehended the alleged shooter within about three minutes. Authorities praised the school’s lockdown drills
Supreme Court justices Neil Gorsuch and Sonia Sotomayor issued a joint statement Wednesday disputing a recent NPR report as “false” after the liberal media organization claimed the conservative justice refused to wear a mask on the bench despite requests to do so. “Reporting that Justice Sotomayor asked Justice Gorsuch
Pope Francis lamented “cancel culture” in an address to diplomats at the Vatican on Monday. Delivering his annual “state of the world” address on Jan. 10, the pope said that international organizations were increasingly pursuing “divisive” agendas at odds with the longstanding values of many countries. “Not
In this toxic era of bitter cultural division, few things divide people as bitterly as Critical Race Theory (CRT), which isn’t a surprise, given that CRT divides. It divides people into groups pitted against one another, into categories of oppressed vs. oppressor. Your group defines you.
These days, anti-humanism is as thick as molasses among the intelligentsia. That includes an ongoing conversation in bioethics whether — all things considered — human extinction would be a fine thing because of the suffering that never coming into existence would avoid. Example: A few months ago,
The Pillar Survey on Religious Attitudes and Practice America is a country in the midst of major religious flux. It is already well-known that a growing number of Americans say they have no religious affiliation. But far less appreciated is this: Only 35% of Americans
On Thursday, Archbishop Jose Gomez of Los Angeles discussed the rise of new secular ideologies and movements for social change in the United States during a virtual address to the Congress of Catholics and Public Life in Madrid. He asserted that it is “important for
As the youngest in a family of six with three brothers, when I saw the story of a family twice the size of mine going through a dozen gallons of milk each week, it failed to register as extraordinary. Among blue check Twitter, I seemed
