Remember how much it seemed like the news exploded in 2012, when President Obama was caught with the soundbite “you didn’t build that” while stumping for his reelection? Talking about government’s...

My old high school orchestra director would sometimes invoke the late comedian George Carlin when he talked and became aware of the dated language he used. Half-defensive, half-joking, he referred to a...

If you’ve haven’t heard enough of the catch-all term “religious liberty,” check the headlines again. This past week, Alabama’s State Supreme Court Chief Justice, Roy Moore, was suspended from...

Life’s markers tend to involve little motions and tasks. Take cooking, for instance. The moment you get to hold a very sharp knife in your hands, supervised, to mince garlic marks entry to a new world...

I am not one to follow the sound of a fray, even if the fray was merely on print. And by “fray,” I exaggerate the nature of our continuing conversations on free speech in the past few years. Like many...

On any given weekend, our family would make sure to stop by the Redbox before leaving the grocery, to pick the movie that we would watch. Renting the movie discs from those convenient red kiosks was but...