David Gornoski

The Haunting of Christ in the Holy Land

Culture

The Israel-Palestine vortex of human suffering that has flooded eyes on social media over the last weeks has been stupefying. As a result, many people have been rendered numb to ...

Essential Yet Illegal

Libertarianism

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 ...

War in the forest

Church Support for War Created Social Justice Rage

Libertarianism

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 ...

You Can Learn A lot About Socialized Care from Prison

Libertarianism

“I was naked and you clothed me, I was sick and you visited me, I was in prison and you came to me.” – Matthew 25:36 The following is an ...

I’m Jealous of Death Row Inmates

Culture

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.

Gun Laws Create Gun Violence

Culture

Do Leftists believe gun bans will make guns evaporate? Approximately 5 to 10 million AR-15 style rifles exist in America according to the National Shooting Sports Foundation. If we were ...

Building the First Nation not Founded on Bloodshed

Christian Worldview

Why do the nations rage? I don’t know. Maybe because they’re out of ammo culturally. As Joe Quirk, president of The Seasteading Institute calls them, “the 193 monopolies on government ...

To Unite America, End Victimless Crime Laws

Culture

What was it like to be reunited with your son? “I looked up to him.” When Tray Johns was kidnapped, her son was 6 years old and he could only ...

Presumption of Innocence is Social Justice

Culture

I have a friend in Papua New Guinea named Monica Pauluswho was accused of casting sorcery spells because a person died in her village. Her neighbors almost murdered her until ...

Why the Left Adores Donald Trump

Culture

The Left worships Trump because he is an irresistible obstacle to their devotion to the victim-garbed Total State. For generations, mainstream Western culture has taught us that the cognitive dissonance ...

Starry Night House Unveils the Banality of Evil

Libertarianism

In the coldness of space, a star explodes. It creates a dazzling shock wave of cloud debris with a magnetic alignment resembling spokes on a cosmic bicycle wheel of light. ...

Was Jesus a Socialist?

Libertarianism

Was Jesus a socialist? Was he revolting against wealth and money itself? Or was he actually challenging people who use the violence of the state to prosper? I have my ...

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

Politics

When Jesus visited his disciples after his execution, they were terrified. They expected him to bring the standard justice of the ancient world: vengeance. Instead, Jesus said, “Shalom.” This greeting ...

Political Correctness Hallucinates Immigrants as Animals

Politics

This week, the Political Correctness religion mass hallucinated that Trump called illegal immigrants animals because many of its members feel that way and deeply want to atone for it. Media ...

Kanye, Trump, and the Demon Called Legion

Culture

“You don’t have to agree with trump but the mob can’t make me not love him.” – Kanye West Forget petty politics for a moment. Kanye West’s recent statement on ...

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

Libertarianism

Before he was Ron Paul and Rand Paul’s head of security, John Baeza was a cop’s cop. Coming from a family tradition of public servants, Baeza started his career as ...

Christ vs the Crowd: My Interview with Jordan B Peterson

Media

Coinciding with the release of his new book 12 Rules for Life: An Antidote to Chaos, Dr. Jordan B. Peterson sat down with me earlier this week in New York ...

David Gornoski Interviews Robert Murphy

Economics

How do we win liberty for the future? Where does the liberty movement go in these rapidly changing times? A Neighbor’s Choice founder and syndicated writer David Gornoski speaks with ...

David Gornoski Interviews Jason Jones on Catholic Social Teaching

Appearances

Friend of the Libertarian Christian Institute David Gornoski recently interviewed Jason Jones — a Catholic activist and human rights worker — about Catholic social teaching, mimetic theory, and what it ...

Freedom Is the Imitatio Christi

Libertarianism

“The truth shall set you free.” — Jesus Christ The truth, as Jesus demonstrated, is not conceptual but perceptual. That is, it is embodied, not abstract knowledge. The truth can only be ...

Trump: The Scapegoat Supreme

Appearances

David Gornoski breaks down the unhinged attempted feeding frenzy by the media and its customers using the lens he has provided for the past two years: Trump’s Winner’s brand of ...

Liberty Needs Christianity, Not Fascism

Libertarianism

I recently saw a video by a libertarian commentator named TJ Brown, also known as That Guy T, on YouTube making a tongue-in-cheek thought experiment that the liberty movement would ...

America’s Choice: Splitting Our Baby in Half

History

Human desire is a magnetic force. Whenever a person desires something, the desire takes hold of their whole being. Another person sees that person’s desire for an object as a ...

A Christian Black Lives Matter Manifesto

Politics

“Without violence, nothing is ever accomplished in history.” – Karl Marx “But I tell you not to violently resist an evil person. If someone slaps you on your right cheek, ...

The Sacrifice of Tulsi Gabbard

Politics

The media continues to be an increasingly petty, insecure clique as it mimetically parrots its own echo chamber talking points against any person who challenges their preferred leftist-corporatist brand of ...

The Exorcism of Collectivism

Libertarianism

Exorcising Collectivism out of Personhood (or, The Exorcism of Collectivism) Have you ever found yourself living out an expected role scripted by those around you? Whether it’s a family member, ...

The Flag is a Coffin Veil

Politics

“Now from the sixth hour darkness fell upon all the land until the ninth hour. About the ninth hour Jesus cried out with a loud voice, saying, ‘ELI, ELI, LAMA ...

The Nativity Means the End of Empire

History

“My grace is sufficient for you, for power is perfected in weakness.” – Jesus of Nazareth to his imitator Paul of Tarsus Around the world this season, humans of every ...

Drop the Scapegoat! The Pragmatic Case for Christian Nonviolence

Christian Worldview

Our culture is engaged in a cinematic Mexican standoff, but the weapons we point at each other are real only as long as we believe they are. If we broke ...

The West’s Deadly Speech Pathology

Culture

In the beginning was the Word. And the Word was with God. And the Word was God. Go to any western liberal arts university class and you’ll hear the choir ...

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