BreakPoint Daily Commentary Archives

Last autumn, a Chinese scientist named Dr. He ignited a rhetorical firestorm when he announced he’d used the technology CRISPR to genetically alter...

Millennials have a pretty bad reputation these days. Some of it’s undeserved, of course, but there are also plenty of stories of perpetual...

In the whole run-up surrounding the push for same-sex marriage and LGBT “rights,” some predicted that the normalization of homosexuality would open...

The world as we know it is made up of a lot of things, not least of which are ideas. You hear us talk about ideas all the time on BreakPoint,...

Officially, the Netherlands is a safer country to live in than the United States. Its gun homicide rate is about 4 percent that of the United...

A couple of years ago, Jeremiah Johnston and his wife binge-watched the HBO series “The Man in the High Castle.” The series is set in a world where...

Since 1932, 323 players, managers, executives and umpires have been elected to the Baseball Hall of Fame in Cooperstown, New York. What they all...

In 1902, Rudyard Kipling published a collection of children’s stories that became known as the “Just So Stories.” These were fanciful...

On election night 2018, while most of the nation’s attention was focused on the Democrats taking the House and the Republicans expanding their...

Alone in a seemingly hopeless war against an implacable Nazi enemy with bombs raining down on London, one man stepped up to a microphone, amidst...

Last week, New York Governor Andrew Cuomo signed into law the most radical pro-abortion bill our country has seen in a very long time. The...

It’s almost become a cliché to say that marriage is under attack in America. But the trends and statistics are undeniable.

On my New Year’s Day BreakPoint, I said that among the most important stories to watch this year is the ongoing conflict between religious freedom...

No one at Twitter, Buzzfeed, or the Washington Post got gum stuck in their hair, or fell into a mud puddle or got stuck with lima beans for dinner...

The central practice of the Christian life, at least biblically speaking, is gathering together as Christ’s body for corporate worship, for hearing...