All Articles by David Gornoski

Culture

The Haunting of Christ in the Holy Land

The Israel-Palestine vortex of human suffering that has flooded eyes on social media over the last weeks has been stupefying. …

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Libertarianism

Essential Yet Illegal

The US federal government does a bunch of things that mystify me. They cannot discriminate in conferring benefits based on race, oh, unless it is affirmative action. Government agents cannot search you or your home without first earning a warrant, unless they think they should. I’ve even accepted there are alternative truths: you can keep your doctor, and Bill didn’t inhale. But, in the last few days, it seems they have been overwhelmed by imagination.

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War in the forest
Libertarianism

Church Support for War Created Social Justice Rage

Rene Girard: “’Saul, why do you persecute me?’ (Acts 22.7). This is the fundamental question. Christian conversion is our discovery that we are persecutors without knowing it. All participation in the scapegoat phenomenon is the same sin of the persecution of Christ. And all human beings commit this sin.”

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Libertarianism

You Can Learn A lot About Socialized Care from Prison

“I was naked and you clothed me, I was sick and you visited me, I was in prison and you …

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Culture

I’m Jealous of Death Row Inmates

This article is by Craig J. Cesal, a federal prisoner sentenced to life without the possibility of parole as a first-time offender convicted of conspiring to distribute marijuana.

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Culture

Gun Laws Create Gun Violence

Do Leftists believe gun bans will make guns evaporate? Approximately 5 to 10 million AR-15 style rifles exist in America …

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Christian Worldview

Building the First Nation not Founded on Bloodshed

Why do the nations rage? I don’t know. Maybe because they’re out of ammo culturally. As Joe Quirk, president of …

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Culture

To Unite America, End Victimless Crime Laws

What was it like to be reunited with your son? “I looked up to him.” When Tray Johns was kidnapped, …

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Culture

Presumption of Innocence is Social Justice

I have a friend in Papua New Guinea named Monica Pauluswho was accused of casting sorcery spells because a person …

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Culture

Why the Left Adores Donald Trump

The Left worships Trump because he is an irresistible obstacle to their devotion to the victim-garbed Total State. For generations, …

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Libertarianism

Starry Night House Unveils the Banality of Evil

In the coldness of space, a star explodes. It creates a dazzling shock wave of cloud debris with a magnetic …

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Libertarianism

Was Jesus a Socialist?

Was Jesus a socialist? Was he revolting against wealth and money itself? Or was he actually challenging people who use …

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Politics

What I Learned about Christian Love from My Conversation With Black Lives Matter Leader Hawk Newsome

When Jesus visited his disciples after his execution, they were terrified. They expected him to bring the standard justice of …

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Politics

Political Correctness Hallucinates Immigrants as Animals

This week, the Political Correctness religion mass hallucinated that Trump called illegal immigrants animals because many of its members feel …

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Culture

Kanye, Trump, and the Demon Called Legion

“You don’t have to agree with trump but the mob can’t make me not love him.” – Kanye West Forget …

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Libertarianism

The John Baeza Files: Detective Blows Whistle on Drug War, Prison System

Before he was Ron Paul and Rand Paul’s head of security, John Baeza was a cop’s cop. Coming from a …

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Media

Christ vs the Crowd: My Interview with Jordan B Peterson

Coinciding with the release of his new book 12 Rules for Life: An Antidote to Chaos, Dr. Jordan B. Peterson …

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Economics

David Gornoski Interviews Robert Murphy

How do we win liberty for the future? Where does the liberty movement go in these rapidly changing times? A …

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Appearances

David Gornoski Interviews Jason Jones on Catholic Social Teaching

Friend of the Libertarian Christian Institute David Gornoski recently interviewed Jason Jones — a Catholic activist and human rights worker …

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Libertarianism

Freedom Is the Imitatio Christi

“The truth shall set you free.” — Jesus Christ The truth, as Jesus demonstrated, is not conceptual but perceptual. That is, it …

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Appearances

Trump: The Scapegoat Supreme

David Gornoski breaks down the unhinged attempted feeding frenzy by the media and its customers using the lens he has …

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Libertarianism

Liberty Needs Christianity, Not Fascism

I recently saw a video by a libertarian commentator named TJ Brown, also known as That Guy T, on YouTube …

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History

America’s Choice: Splitting Our Baby in Half

Human desire is a magnetic force. Whenever a person desires something, the desire takes hold of their whole being. Another …

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Politics

A Christian Black Lives Matter Manifesto

“Without violence, nothing is ever accomplished in history.” – Karl Marx “But I tell you not to violently resist an …

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Politics

The Sacrifice of Tulsi Gabbard

The media continues to be an increasingly petty, insecure clique as it mimetically parrots its own echo chamber talking points …

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Libertarianism

The Exorcism of Collectivism

Exorcising Collectivism out of Personhood (or, The Exorcism of Collectivism) Have you ever found yourself living out an expected role …

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Politics

The Flag is a Coffin Veil

“Now from the sixth hour darkness fell upon all the land until the ninth hour. About the ninth hour Jesus …

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History

The Nativity Means the End of Empire

“My grace is sufficient for you, for power is perfected in weakness.” – Jesus of Nazareth to his imitator Paul …

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Christian Worldview

Drop the Scapegoat! The Pragmatic Case for Christian Nonviolence

Our culture is engaged in a cinematic Mexican standoff, but the weapons we point at each other are real only …

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Culture

The West’s Deadly Speech Pathology

In the beginning was the Word. And the Word was with God. And the Word was God. Go to any …

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