Society & Culture

“One of the mysteries here is why the DOJ is looking into this at all. Abuse is always reported to local law enforcement and abuse investigations are in the purview of local and state authorities.” - P&D

“This new policy is ripe for abuse. Twitter has proven time and again it cannot be trusted to serve as a neutral judge of what is or isn’t misinformation.” - CPost

“…natural law does not hold that all moral evil can or should be prohibited by the state. The free choice to lie, for example, is always wrong because such acts always damage the good of truth. Yet we don’t legally prohibit and punish all acts of lying.” - Samuel Gregg

“In 2018, American Atheists… sued Rapert, a Republican, arguing he violated its members’ freedom of speech by blocking them from expressing their viewpoints on his official Facebook and Twitter accounts.” - RNS

“Though we tend to think that Europe is less “Christian” than the United States, in some ways, that’s not true…. on at least two major social issues, America has, for a while now, been more extreme than Europe.” - Breakpoint

“One of the most defining attributes of U.S. adults’ giving, it seems, is that it is local—indeed, nearly half (48%) say this true, while just 17 percent share that their giving is global. They lean toward describing their giving as proactive (47%) and private (42%), but are largely neutral (45%) on whether their giving could be called sacrificial or convenient. ” - Barna

“I would love to see Christians pontificating much less about complex matters they don’t understand….But even if we did all that (and we should), we would not be free from politics. There is no category called ‘politics’ that can be safely quarantined from the category we call ‘religion.’” - Kevin DeYoung

“Amnesty International, the global human rights watchdog with a self-described mandate to take injustice personally, published a deeply flawed report on Russia’s war of aggression against Ukraine.” - Providence

A few recent developments…

“In both parties, majorities of those who have experienced one of the forms of extreme weather asked about in the survey say climate change contributed to the event. But Democrats are more likely than Republicans to say climate change contributed a lot.” - Pew