What Is Astroturfing And Why Does It Matter?

R. Scott Clark

on May 1, 2020

Sharyl Atkisson is a former reporter for CBS, CNN, PBS and other mainstream outlets. She hosts a weekly television news magazine program, Full Measure. In this episode she defines and explains the effect (and affect) of the manipulation of social media (and traditional media) known as “astroturfing.” Continue reading →

How Does Facebook “Fact Checking” Work?

R. Scott Clark

on April 18, 2020 | 4 Comments

Media ecology is the study of how we consume media generally and how it affects us. Media are not neutral. The medium affects the message. As Marshall McLuhan (1911–80) said, the medium is the message. The same message delivered by video (e.g., . . . Continue reading →

Rosaria Explains Intersectionality In One Paragraph

R. Scott Clark

on March 4, 2020

… How have we arrived at a place where students on elite college campuses perceive objective truth as a threat to personal safety and authentic selfhood? The answer is intersectionality, an analytical tool introduced in humanities and social science departments in U.S. . . . Continue reading →

The Corrosive Consequences Of Speech Codes

R. Scott Clark

on January 24, 2020 | 3 Comments

Here’s the column that got me fired from the Denver Post. I’ve been a regular columnist for the Denver Post since 2016. …Plain talk that doesn’t conform to the newspeak law of “use only the words mandated by the perpetually offended.” So, . . . Continue reading →

Princeton Historian Rebukes 1619 Project: The Facts Still Matter

R. Scott Clark

on January 22, 2020 | 2 Comments

No effort to educate the public in order to advance social justice can afford to dispense with a respect for basic facts. In the long and continuing battle against oppression of every kind, an insistence on plain and accurate facts has been . . . Continue reading →

Oxford Historian Carwardine: 1619 Project “Preposterous” And “Tendentious”

R. Scott Clark

on January 3, 2020 | 4 Comments

As well as the essay I have read your interviews with James McPherson and James Oakes. I share their sense that, putting it politely, this is a tendentious and partial reading of American history. I understand where this Project is coming from, . . . Continue reading →

What Is At Stake In The “Gender” Debate?

Will Gnosticism Become The State Religion?

R. Scott Clark

on December 26, 2019 | 3 Comments

What is at stake here is much more than the right of an individual to free self-expression or an employer’s freedom of religion to hold and act on such “stereotypes.” Since everyone in the workplace of that individual employee will be asked . . . Continue reading →

Grammar Guerrilla: Pronoun Primer

R. Scott Clark

on December 11, 2019 | 5 Comments

In yet another indicator that the West is collapsing, Webster’s Dictionary has apparently named they, used to designate a particular, non-gendered person, the word of 2019. This seems to call for a quick refresher on basic grammar: There are two kinds of . . . Continue reading →

Is All Of Life Political?

R. Scott Clark

on October 14, 2019 | 1 Comment

Search for the phrase “all of life is political” and one finds not a few results. We expect such a sentiment to be very popular among mon-Christians, whose hope is focused on this life and this world. Remarkably, however, Christians are among . . . Continue reading →

What Social Media Teaches Us About Law, Gospel, Forgiveness, And Grace

R. Scott Clark

on September 27, 2019

Carson King is a 23-year old Des Moines man who held up a sign at a televised college football game announcing, “Busch Lite supply needs replenished.” It was a joke but people began sending him money via the Venmo appl. When he . . . Continue reading →

AGR Conference Audio—Intersectionality: What It Is And Why It Matters

R. Scott Clark

on August 5, 2019 | 2 Comments

On July 26, 2019 AGR and the Escondido United Reformed Church were pleased to co-host the first-ever Abounding Grace Radio conference. Our speaker this year was Dr Rosaria Butterfield. She is a former tenured professor of English and women’s studies at Syracuse . . . Continue reading →

AGR Audio: Rosaria Butterfield—From Victim To Guest

R. Scott Clark

on July 27, 2019 | 1 Comment

Before last night’s conference, Rosaria Butterfield sat with Chris for an AGR interview about her life, the sexual-social revolution (especially after the 2015 Obergefell decision), and how Christians should respond. The audio and video from the conference were recorded and will be . . . Continue reading →

What Was A Comedy Sketch Is Now Daily Life In The USA

Time For Another American Revolution?

R. Scott Clark

on July 4, 2019 | 4 Comments

HT: Jack Miller

The Late-Modern Oppression Olympics In Biblical Perspective

R. Scott Clark

on May 13, 2019

If you are, as I am, bewildered at the sight of biological males competing in female athletic events (e.g., track, wrestling, and weight lifting) or by the sight of wealthy, privileged Yale undergrads screaming at faculty members (for writing a memo asking for toleration for diversity in Halloween costumes), or by the prospect of a leading scholar and physician of gender dysphoria being banned from social media platforms for daring to suggest that minors should be required to wait until age 21 before undergoing permanent sex-reassignment surgery), or by rhetoric that implies that the social and economic conditions of ethnic minorities in the USA is virtually unchanged since the 1860s, there are two words that provide at least a partial explanation: subjectivism and oppression. Continue reading →

The Tyranny Of The New State-Religion: Incoherence

R. Scott Clark

on December 8, 2018 | 3 Comments

James Anderson is among many calling attention to the case of a teacher who has been fired by the West Point, Virginia school board for refusing to submit to their demand that he refer to students who belong biologically to one sex . . . Continue reading →

The World Was Made To Be Known And You Were Made To Know It

R. Scott Clark

on October 24, 2018 | 4 Comments

Is the world that we experience with our five senses (taste, touch, smell, hear, sight) real or an illusion? To some that might seem like a silly question with an obvious answer but, in fact, it is one that has troubled philosophers . . . Continue reading →

Ritual Defamation: A Rite Of Political Correctness

R. Scott Clark

on October 1, 2018 | 1 Comment

Defamation is the destruction or attempted destruction of the reputation, status, character or standing in the community of a person or group of persons by unfair, wrongful, or malicious speech or publication. For the purposes of this essay, the central element is . . . Continue reading →

Trueman On Education And Gulags

R. Scott Clark

on September 29, 2018 | 1 Comment

I am over fifty. I no longer care what anyone except my wife thinks about me. That particularly applies to anyone under the age of thirty-five. You should therefore feel free to disagree with me on anything I say because it is . . . Continue reading →

With Janet Mefferd On What Scripture Says About Private Property

R. Scott Clark

on July 26, 2018 | 1 Comment

The eighth and tenth commandments, “You shall not steal” (Ex 20:15) and “You shall not covet” (Ex 20:17) are basic to biblical ethics. They are part of the natural law that God revealed to Adam in the garden, known by image bearers . . . Continue reading →

Orwell On The Value Of Good Writing

R. Scott Clark

on July 24, 2018 | 4 Comments

Now, it is clear that the decline of a language must ultimately have political and economic causes: it is not due simply to the bad influence of this or that individual writer. But an effect can become a cause, reinforcing the original . . . Continue reading →