Everett Piper

Why parents are abandoning public schools — by the millions

If you've ever wondered why so many hardworking families are making considerable financial sacrifices to enroll their children in private education instead, consider three recent headline stories.

September 7, 2025

Devastating consequences of abandoning truth

As a university president, I had a front-row seat as I watched hundreds of students descend onto my campus every year.

August 31, 2025

Teaching schoolchildren what it means to be an American

Last week, Ryan Walters, Oklahoma superintendent for public instruction, made news for announcing that his state's teacher candidates will now be required to pass an "America First" test.

August 24, 2025

Shun ‘pastors’ like John Pavlovitz

On Aug. 2, John Pavlovitz, a man who describes himself as "a writer, pastor, and activist from Wake Forest, North Carolina," posted an essay on Substack that went viral from coast to coast.

August 17, 2025

America needs real dads

Last month, it was a woman named Holly who was punched in the face and left unconscious in downtown Cincinnati.

August 10, 2025

Time for conservatives to kick antisemites out

All Republicans, i.e., all true constitutional conservatives, should be quick to condemn hatred of the Jewish people.

August 3, 2025

Idaho mom Cara Northington forgives her daughter’s murderer

Last week, Cara Northington, the mother of one of the University of Idaho students murdered by Bryan Kohberger in 2022, made headline news for three simple words: I forgive you.

July 27, 2025

Chip Gaines judges everyone but himself for judging

Chip and Joanna Gaines of Magnolia Network fame will proudly feature a "family" of two "married" men and the men's young, surrogacy-purchased boys in an upcoming episode of their show.

July 20, 2025

Baylor doubles down on LGBTQ inclusion

Baylor University recently announced the receipt of a $640,000 grant from the Baugh Foundation to pursue "LGBTQ inclusivity" on its campus.

July 13, 2025

Baylor affirms LGBTQ inclusivity

Last week, Baylor University announced that it had received a grant of approximately $700,000 from the Baugh Foundation to promote LGBTQ inclusivity on its campus.

July 6, 2025

Does NYC want a communist mayor?

In 1924, G.K. Chesterton wrote, "Why is it that for the last two or three centuries, the educated have been generally wrong and the uneducated relatively right?"

June 29, 2025

The billionaires behind the ‘No Kings’ riots

If you watched the recent "No Kings" riots with a lingering sense of deja vu, together with a haunting feeling that the "fox is in the henhouse," you had good reason.

June 22, 2025

From personhood to sexual preference: How modern labels dehumanize us

Last week in this column, I argued that if we truly respect our neighbors, we should stop using all of the LGBTQ labels that have become endemic to the month of June and its corresponding celebration of "pride."

June 15, 2025

Dear Christians: Please stop calling people gay

Men and women can be defined by their savior rather than their sins.

June 8, 2025

The ‘gospel of pride’ Is not the Gospel of Christ

It's June, and it's that wonderful time of year when liberal pastors and priests across the country take to their pulpits to declare that conservative Christians are bigots.

June 1, 2025

Psychological projection playbook: How elites blame you for what they do

As Adam blamed Eve and Eve blamed the snake, and the snake then blamed God himself, so, too, do today's establishment elites continue to accuse everyone but themselves of the very things they do with impunity.

May 25, 2025

Pride Month and the fascism of identity politics

In the 1970s, Ronald Reagan warned that "If fascism ever comes to America, it will come in the name of liberalism."

May 18, 2025

How to fix America’s schools: Let teachers teach

On March 20, President Trump signed an executive order to begin shutting down several functions of the Department of Education. Everyone should ignore the frantic reaction of the establishment media. Defunding our nation's educational bureaucracy is one of the best decisions the Trump administration has made. Here's why.

May 11, 2025

MAGA doesn’t need more RINOs

Last week, the U.S. Supreme Court heard the case of St. Isidore v. Drummond.

May 4, 2025

Democrats’ weird fixation on sex is making our children sick

The Supreme Court heard last week from attorneys arguing in favor of teaching prekindergarten children as young as 3 the virtues of, in the words of Justice Neil M. Gorsuch, "leather, bondage, sex work and drag queens."

April 27, 2025