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• Watch the latest BATG video with Peter Schweizer and bring your comments and discussions here

  04 Apr 2024

  Jeff Haymond

  Look to the right on the site, and you can hear my interview with Peter Schweizer, one of the most compelling speakers on political corruption and foreign policy around. I’m happy to engage with your comments or questions on the video below. And yes, go buy his book! Some of you were asking for videos, […]

• It’s Over Hollywood, We Have The High Ground (Maybe)

  30 Jul 2023

  Carter Miedema

  In the case of the Hollywood writers’ strike, who has the moral high ground? Many have seen the consistent refrain that Hollywood executives are taking advantage of poor, overworked writers via streaming culture changes and AI’s rise.* Hollywood studio executives are trying to cut costs to preserve profits in a new and changing environment for […]

• Eric Voegelin, Basketball, and the Gospel

  01 Aug 2020

  Stanley Schwartz

  The works of Eric Voegelin (1901-1985) are the most challenging and rewarding of any philosophical studies I’ve ever confronted. For those of you wondering why Voegelin wasn’t profiled in my short-lived first run at a Weekly Sage column, my answer would be that his contributions to thought and literature earned much more than a single […]

• Australia’s 2019 Election: The “Miracle” Americans Overlooked?

  21 May 2019

  Stanley Schwartz

  As a Fulbright scholar recently returned from 9 months studying Australian politics, I eagerly awaited the results of this past Saturday’s federal election down under. (By the way, Australians think weekend elections are one of the many improvements they made to representative government which the United States ignores to its own harm.)  Before the election, […]

• The Trump(et) Sounds

  21 Jan 2017

  Marc Clauson

  Well, Donald Trump is now officially our president.  He delivered an interesting and a bit controversial inaugural speech yesterday, which I would like to try my hand at analyzing.  Before I do, may I mention others’ comments on it.  George Will called it “a most dreadful inaugural address” (National Review Online, January 21, 2017) and […]

• Bereans on the Road!

  17 Sep 2016

  Mark Caleb Smith

  The Bereans are on the road September 18! Three of us (Smith, Tison, and Wheeler) will be at Grace Covenant Church in Beavercreek, OH at 6:00 pm for a brief talk followed by q&a. If you are in the area, feel free to come. If you bring rotten vegetables, aim at Dr. Tison, he is […]