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Holding hands, support and closeup with trust, solidarity and community on a home table. Therapy, diversity and gratitude of friends together with hope, respect and love for grief empathy and forgive
Marvin Olasky
March 21, 2025
Homelessness

Dueling Definitions of Compassion

Marvin Olasky
March 21, 2025
Homelessness
“Compassion: Suffering together with another, participation in suffering.” The emphasis, as you can see from just looking at the word — “com,” with, and “passion,” from the Latin pati, to suffer — is on personal involvement with the needy, suffering with them, not just giving to them. The OED also includes a second definition of “compassion:” “The feeling, or emotion, when a person is moved by the suffering or distress of another, and by the desire to relieve it.” Read More ›
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Jonathan Choe
March 20, 2025
Homelessness

San Francisco: From Doom Loop to Boom Loop

Jonathan Choe
March 20, 2025
Homelessness

Is San Francisco making a comeback? A new mayor and a new approach to the homelessness and drug crises could be a game changer for the city that has long been mired in crime, chaos, and death. Jonathan Choe reports. Transcript Parts of San Francisco have been described as being stuck in a perpetual doom loop. A never-ending pattern of Read More ›

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John G. West
March 18, 2025
Intelligent Design

Darwin’s Corrosive Impact on Faith and Culture

John G. West
March 18, 2025
Intelligent Design

John West, author of the book Darwin Day in America, examines the corrosive impact of Charles Darwin’s theory of evolution on faith, morality, medicine, racism, and more. Dr. West is Vice President of Discovery Institute and Managing Director of its Center for Science and Culture. His other books include Stockholm Syndrome Christianity: Why America’s Christian Leaders Are Failing—and What We Read More ›

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Public domain image of the Barry Faulkner mural "The Constitution," at Wikimedia Commons: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Faulkner_-_%22Constitution%22_mural_(corrected).jpg
Scott S. Powell
March 18, 2025
Economics

Returning to Our Founding Will Make America Great Again

Scott S. Powell
March 18, 2025
Economics
To make America great again, every American citizen should know what was the main driver of America's success in becoming the world's superpower economically and militarily by the early 20th century. America's greatness then was primarily attributable to its spiritually-grounded culture and its form of government—a unique constitutional republic that empowered the people and the states more than elites and the federal government. Read More ›
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Wesley J. Smith
March 17, 2025
Human Exceptionalism

Microbes Over People?

Wesley J. Smith
March 17, 2025
Human Exceptionalism
Only a philosopher could claim seriously that humans owe significant moral duties to microbes. But NYU bioethicist Jeff Sebo delivers precisely that thesis in his new book The Moral Circle: Who Matters, What Matters, and Why (W.W. Norton, 192 pp.). Don’t look for a sanctity of human life argument here. Rather, Sebo takes readers on a step-by-step simplified course in moral philosophy. Read More ›