Commentary

“Pure evil” is how Sheriff Jud Smith described the recent school shooting in Winder, Northeast Georgia. Tragedies like these have become disturbingly frequent in American schools. Each incident is met with tearful interviews from victims’ families mourning their horrific loss, community vigils showing solidarity, and condemnations from federal, state, and local...

Have you observed angry, demanding people with grievances—whether real or imagined—or special interests seeking redress with threats of disruption or violence to achieve their ends? It is an ancient practice that will not end well for them. In several places, the Bible calls such individuals “fools.” For example, “It is honorable for a man to stop striving,...

“If it ain’t broke, don’t fix it,” goes the old saying. It seems that some people have got to change things for the sake of change. The way they think is that if something is old, it must be wrong—and it’s their job to come up with something new. Somehow they believe that if something is new, it must be better, which of course is not always the case. Progress is...

You may have seen news stories about “mind reading” becoming technologically possible. What was once science fiction is close to becoming reality. Will doctors, law enforcement, and government agencies, assisted by such technology, soon be able to read and interpret our brain waves? Are “thought police” and mind control in our near future?