Exchanging Freedom for Security
Real life makes the best classroom. Let me share a recent Facebook exchange. I posted an article by constitutional attorney Michael Connolly explaining some of the vague language and dangerous...
View ArticleBarack Obama’s License to Kill
Let’s imagine for a moment that the Liberty Professor embarks on an extended study trip to an Islamic nation. Since my area of expertise includes interreligious dialogue, it’s not an impossibility....
View ArticleThe Liberty Professor’s Startling Prediction
Just three days ago I posted my article about our national government’s war upon its own citizens–as long as those citizens are overseas and are judged to be a threat to national security. To see that...
View ArticleDying to Go Green
I’ve never been one for fads. As kids, my brother and I were challenged by our parents to think about our choices and to reflect on our relationships. I suppose that’s why “everybody’s doing it” was...
View ArticleDrones: Hunting US Citizens at Home
On February 8th, I sounded the alarm regarding the killing of US citizens abroad who are believed by highly-placed officials to be a threat to our national security. As I stated then, the United States...
View ArticleGOP Dinosaurs
Constitutionalists around the nation were thrilled to see the recent filibuster by Sen. Rand Paul (R-KY). He wanted an answer from representatives of the current presidential administration regarding...
View ArticleSex, Love, and Liberty
The Kiss, by Francesco Hayez, 1859, oil painting on canvas (located in the Pinacoteca di Brera, the primary public gallery of Milan, Italy) As I have often remarked to my students, the most fascinating...
View ArticleWounding the Cause of Liberty
It’s being reported that President Obama boarded Marine One (the presidential helicopter) Friday morning, that he was saluted by a member of the United States Marine Corps, and that he failed to return...
View ArticleThe Truth About Truth
Time Saving Truth From Falsehood and Envy, by Francois Lemoyne (1737); in retrospect, perhaps it’s a bit of political irony that the day after completing this piece, the artist tragically committed...
View ArticleObama’s Audacity: Using the Shutdown to Punish Some, Reward Others
Barack Obama is nothing if not audacious. The title of his now-famous book seems to confirm it–The Audacity of Hope. His style of political campaigning confirms it, and although he did his best to hide...
View ArticleThe Liberty Professor Endorses Chris McDaniel for US Senate
Perhaps there is nothing more wonderful, more perplexing, or more troublesome than the challenge of discovering where we belong in life. As a Christian and theologian, I believe that life is God’s...
View ArticlePolitics Gets in the Way
This blog post is in memory of the nine people who died in Emanuel AME Church in Charleston last week. While we fume and fuss about flags and statues, and while we debate about statues and plaques, the...
View ArticleDylann Roof: The Startling Truth About His Gun
The actions of the disturbed Dylann Roof on June 17th set off a chain reaction of sorts, the components of which are driven by political agendas. American history is being washed of anything that might...
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