Give Life a Chance

Give Life a Chance

The Areopagus Update – Summer 2022 The latest eruption in America’s ongoing culture war exploded prematurely on May 2, 2022 with the unauthorized leaking of a draft opinion from Associate Justice Samuel Alito indicating that the majority of justices on the U.S....
Reaping What We Have Sown

Reaping What We Have Sown

The Areopagus Update – Summer 2022 This past week we witnessed quite a spectacle as the U.S. Senate’s Judiciary Committee held hearings on Joe Biden’s nominee for the Supreme Court, Ketanji Brown Jackson – perhaps the most radical and least qualified person to ever be...
A Requiem for Afghanistan

A Requiem for Afghanistan

Last week I wrote an essay on our Areopagus Facebook page and website entitled “Don’t Trust Anyone’s Judgement Who Didn’t See This Coming” that began with this warning: Here is a simple lesson in prudential judgment: Don’t trust anyone’s judgement on any political,...
The 2020 Election: What Was Really at Stake

The 2020 Election: What Was Really at Stake

In keeping with the old Chinese curse, “May you live in ‘interesting’ times,” this has certainly been an ‘interesting’ year.  In fact, it has been in many respects a ‘perfect storm’ marked by an unprecedented degree of domestic chaos, dysfunction and disruption as...