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Articles Os Guinness and Chloe Cole with two memorable presentations from CCNC 2026. This week we feature two speeches from the recent Colson Center National Conference. Os Guinness and Chloe Cole with two memorable presentations. Topics Education/Parental Rights LGBT Politics & Government Segment 1 – Os Guinness: What Made America Great CCNC Digital Offer Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy Jewish Review Segment 2 – Chloe Cole; Courage, Reality and Truth Have a Follow-up Question?

Along with well-deserved patriotic pride this month, the celebration of America’s 250th anniversary requires introspection, especially about America’s beginnings and slavery. Many of the same Founding Fathers who inspired the cause of liberty in so many kept others in chains. However, a Founding Father who boldly opposed slavery was Dr. Benjamin Rush.

On SocialAI, an app that looks like X, you post, and perhaps millions of “followers” reply instantly. Those followers, though, are built by you, from a menu that can include supporters, critics, trolls, conservatives, or liberals. SocialAI’s founder promotes it as “liberating” because users can’t be canceled. That’s because no actual person is reacting to the posts. In a sea of millions of engaged followers, there’s only one human—you. And you know it.

Last month on his Substack, Dr. Anthony Bradley shared some newsworthy stories. Too often, when young men attract attention, it is for all of the wrong reasons, unless it involves sports or music. These young men earned this attention, with courage. As Bradley put it: The headlines have become a liturgy of bad news about young men: they are disengaged, addicted, angry, aimless. That concern is real and there are many institutions working on these issues, but this is not the whole story.

Articles Lindsey Graham’s Death, American Exceptionalism, Children’s Rights and the Decline of England We look back at the life of Senator Lindsey Graham. Two politicians talked about American exceptionalism on July 4th; they both got it wrong. And England continues to flirt with oppressive laws. 07/17/26

Christopher Nolan’s film adaptation of The Odysseyfeatures a stellar cast that includes A-listers such as Anne Hathaway, Charlize Theron, Matt Damon, Zendeya, Tom Holland, and Ellen Page. Page was best known, at least initially, for her breakout role as a pregnant teenager in 2007’s “Juno.” More recently, Page is known for rejecting her identity as a female, portraying as a male, and adopting the name “Elliot.” In the movie The Odyssey, Page’s personal gender conflict is on display.

Jean Twenge joins John Stonestreet to discuss what parents can do to protect their children from harm in a world so different from the one they grew up in.

A new study that draws on 122 years of mortality rates in the U.S. is offering a window into suicide trends. Rather than focusing on individual, psychological traits like depression and substance abuse, researchers sought to understand the role that societal factors play in driving trends. Among other things, the results point to the role the church can play in offering hope. The data points to a number of significant shifts. Suicide rates are higher and start at a younger age each decade.

Recently, the New York Times reported that scientists at Columbia University have used a new technology called “base editing” to alter the DNA of early human embryos with unprecedented accuracy. As the Times noted, On the one hand, the technology might one day enable parents to safely repair disease-causing mutations in embryos. But it might also be used to select desired traits—a practice that some ethicists have argued is nothing short of eugenics.

As America continues to celebrate the 250th anniversary of the Declaration of Independence, today marks an anniversary of a significant step toward fulfilling the ‘self-evident’ truths proclaimed in our founding document. The Northwest Ordinance, also known as “An Ordinance for the Government of the Territory of the United States North-West of the River Ohio”was signed on July 13, 1787, and is one of four “organic laws” that serve as the foundational laws for the nation.