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The Point by Colson Center

May 23, 2022

Last Saturday, the country was left grappling with another reminder of human depravity. An 18-year-old gunman entered a supermarket in Buffalo, New York, killing 10 and injuring three more. The victims, who were predominantly black, included Heyward Patterson, a local church deacon; Pearl Young, a retired school...


May 18, 2022

Religion, not gender,” the Economist reports, “is the best predictor of views on abortion.” The editors write: 

Shocked by a draft Supreme Court opinion that would allow states to ban abortion…. some [activists] hope that women enraged by the loss of Roe v Wade will vote en masse for Democrats in November. 


Sep 28, 2021

According to the U.S. Department of Education, since the start of the pandemic, more than 1.5 million students have left traditional public schooling.

Many parents are realizing, some for the first time, that students aren’t learning what their parents thought they were learning. As one former college professor...


Sep 27, 2021

According to Wired magazine, “Eighteen months of using front-facing cameras has distorted our self-image.” It’s what health experts are calling “Zoom Dysmorphia.” We’re spending so much time looking at ourselves through cameras, it’s crushing our self-esteem.

 

Doctors have seen this effect for a long...


Sep 24, 2021

Recently, Chinese authorities announced that minors can only play video games for three hours a week, and not on school days. 

Of course,  this  kind of thing would never happen in the West, for all kinds of reasons, not least of which is our worship of individual autonomy. We can’t even pass real restrictions on...