Words have weight


Published November 3, 2023

WORLD Opinions

In the aftermath of Hamas’ horrific terrorist attack on Israel, an almost equally horrifying phenomenon began unfolding at elite college campuses and law schools across America: Student groups began mobilizing to celebrate the slaughter of innocents! Trained by decades of deconstruction and “decolonization” to view virtually every human interaction through the simple binary of “oppressor” vs. “oppressed,” reflexively denouncing the powerful and celebrating the less powerful, they couldn’t seem to help themselves. If Israel had a bigger military and more land, then clearly any form of “resistance” was automatically justified.

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Brad Littlejohn was a Fellow in EPPC’s Technology and Human Flourishing and Evangelicals in Civic Life programs from 2022-2025. His wide-ranging research and writing encompasses work on the relation of digital technology and embodiment, the appropriate limits of free speech, the nature of freedom and authority in the Christian tradition, and the retrieval of a Protestant natural law ethic.

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