YouTube Recommendations: Hope in Our “Wired” Wasteland
In 1961, Newton Minow, the new head of the Federal Communications Commission, told a meeting of the National Association of..Read more
Roberto Rivera
Senior Fellow and columnist
Tamed by Twitter
Our Asocial Domestication, Part One
Around 12 thousand years ago, Homo sapiens sapiens began the transition from hunting and gathering to a more sedentary way..Read more
Stay in Your Lane: The Mortal Peril of “Scientific” Vanity
Last week, more than 11 thousand scientists issued a report entitled “World Scientists’ Warning of a Climate Emergency.” The message of the report was..Read more
You Are Not a Brand
Long before Richard Weaver wrote that “ideas have consequences,” the Christian tradition declared that Lex orandi, lex credendi, “the law..Read more
The Two Bucks: The Nazi’s Victims and Our Own
Dorothea Buck died on October 9 in Hamburg, Germany. She was 102 years old. It was the end an extraordinary story you probably never..Read more
The Superpower that Matters: What the “Neurodiversity” Movement Gets Wrong
Sixteen-year-old climate change activist Greta Thunberg, who recently scolded participants at the United Nations’ Climate Action Summit, has been diagnosed with Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD)...Read more
Beauty Can Save Us
I woke at 2:30 in the morning and couldn’t go back to sleep. The reason was obvious: depression with more..Read more
Gay Gene Study: The Not-So Certainties of Popular Science
We Are not the Sum of Our Genome.
According to a newly-published study in the journal Brain, being left-handed like me is “is linked to better verbal skills..Read more
An Epidemic of Not Seeing
Guns and Suicide
I You may have heard the story of the “invisible ships.” There are several versions, but they all have several..Read more
The Kids are Alright (Or Hopefully, At Least Pretty Not Bad)
My friend Shane Morris has written a response to “The Deepening Crisis in Evangelical Christianity” by Peter Wehner at the..Read more
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