On a recent trip to Manhattan for a television appearance, my wife and I sat at the Tonic Bar near Times Square. With the day’s work behind us, we nibbled appetizers and had a couple of drinks as we waited for a performance of Jersey Boys. “I don’t know how Read more…
Following the 2016 presidential election, liberal elites wasted no time in demonizing those people populating “Red States.” Writing for The Hill, Duane Townsend was among the first to voice an opinion that has become familiar to the point of cliché: “America is held hostage by flyover states.” Townsend offered this Read more…
Larry’s interview on the Eric Metaxas Show in NYC was just aired! You can watch it here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v0BDn4Bfbi0 Larry Alex Taunton is an author, cultural commentator, and freelance columnist contributing to USA TODAY, Fox News, First Things, The Atlantic, CNN, and The American Spectator. In addition to being a frequent radio and television guest, he is also the author Read more…
Did the Greatest Generation fail us? Some historians seem to think so. When I was a graduate student in history, it was my great privilege to learn from celebrated historian Forrest McDonald, a man who made his reputation trashing leftist nonsense. In guiding my thesis, he cautioned me against a Read more…
Last week I wrote about wonderful truths I had learned and experienced as I walked through some hard times. I learned God can be trusted. His plan for redeeming us as broken sinners is as real as the wine and bread we partake of in holy communion. I can testify, Read more…
I visited 13 sites of Islamic terrorist attacks and asked witnesses that one question. On April 7, 2017, in Stockholm, Sweden, Rakhmat Akilov, a Muslim immigrant and asylum-seeker, stole a beer truck in the heart of the city’s shopping district. Did he have a keg party in mind? No. Alcohol Read more…
Don’t underestimate millennials — here’s why I’m thinking of asking my son for a job, Larry in Fox News As my youngest son, Zachary, approached graduation last year, I felt a growing apprehension about his future, professionally speaking. Though possessed of a strong work ethic and soon to have a Read more…
Republican political commentator Ben Shapiro did an interview with BBC’s Andrew Neil yesterday. He ended up walking out of the interview and media have wasted no time in issuing scathing headlines that present Shapiro as unreasonable, angry, pouting, and as having “lost” this debate. Just Google “Shapiro” and “BBC” and Read more…
Stories of grace. Most of us like to hear them and feel encouraged by them. We attach other words like compassion, kindness, and love to the meaning behind the word grace. As Christians, we also believe forgiveness is often involved where grace is in evidence. Many times in recent months Read more…
Social standards of our day are changing with great rapidity and are enforced with a zeal that would impress Senator Joe McCarthy. So, in the spirit of the modern, I thought it would be interesting to judge some of history’s most famous men by the zeitgeist of today. How many of them Read more…