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1

Saving American History

2

In Defense of the Kurds

3

Hear Ben Sasse!

4

Whitefield and America

5

Religion is the Issue

6

Read the Declaration

7

The Tyranny of Utopia

8

Thoughts on Iran

9

Preserving Fire

10

The Coming Crisis: Water [From the Archives]

11

Seeing Behind the Scenes

12

A New Day for Iran

13

The 600th! Q&A

14

Three Great Evils

15

Deadly Ideas Rising

16

Newton's 3rd Law

17

Fixing Birthright Citizenship

18

The Battle for Guinness

19

The Evil of Political Violence

20

Remembering Charlie Kirk

21

D.C. and Home Rule

22

AI and the Human

23

Still Here: The Johnson Amendment

24

Not THE Culture!

25

Are Abortions Increasing?

26

A New Day for Iran

27

Immigration— Work the Problem!

28

The Putin Delusion

29

Fixing College Football

30

The Creativity Crisis

31

9 Billion for Harvard?

32

Slaying Worry

33

Extreme Damage

34

The White House Fight and the Kurds

35

Ukraine and Valor

36

Losing Hollywood

37

A Modest Proposal About Religion

38

Leadership and Jimmy Carter

39

The News: Your Expertise and Knowing the Story

40

Rituals of Peace

41

The March of Folly

42

The 2024 Election: A Millennial Interview

43

7 Truths of the 2024 Election

44

The Math That Makes a President

45

The Crisis of Reading

46

The Foreign Policy Switch

47

Some Risky Predictions

48

Our Political Moment

49

The Hamlet Effect

50

When Your Enemy is Destroying Himself

51

American History Turns

52

Five Vital Stats

53

Flags, Embassies, and a Radical Idea

54

A Cry For Heroes

55

The Gen Z Baby Boomer Gap

56

Ten Facts Shaping Your World

57

Our Toxic Campuses

58

A Just War Primer

59

My Government and Me

60

ISIS-K Strikes Again

61

Why No Two-State Solution

62

A Good Man Leaves Us

63

The Iranian Battleplan

64

2024: A Year of War

65

Knowing Your University

66

The Lies About Ukraine

67

How Did We Get Christmas?

68

Racism and Christian Theology

69

The Thanksgiving Story 2023

70

Don't Fund Your Enemies

71

Israel, Gaza, and Tomorrow

72

Reality Distortion in Politics

73

Boys and Society

74

Four Economic Trends

75

The Maui Fire: A Warning

76

Politics as Crime: A Warning

77

Review: Sound of Freedom

78

Supreme Court Sanity

79

A Summer News Survey

80

A New Day for the GOP

81

A Sports Betting Plague

82

The Power of the Trades

83

When The U.S. Projects Weakness

84

The Nashville Shooting

85

Why Ukraine?

86

The Malaise of Congress

87

On Jimmy Carter

88

Demonic Women?

89

Thoughts on Energy & Grieving Tyre

90

Three Lives and the Lessons Learned, Part 2

91

Three Lives and the Lessons Learned, Part 1

92

How To Face The Future

93

Lynchpin – The Nord Stream Explosion

94

Two Huge Trends and a Gripe

95

What is Christian Nationalism?

96

Mahsa Amini and Tulsi Gabbard

97

The Constitution a Covenant with God?

98

A High Courage, a Quiet Heart

99

Not Serious About Student Debt

100

Stephen’s Top 7

101

From The Archive: All Things Churchill

102

From The Archive: Victory Over Hunger

103

Best Of: Is “Evangelical” a Bad Word?

104

Best Of: The Radical Middle (Part Two)

105

Best Of: The Radical Middle (Part One)

106

Best Of: Healing Our Patriotic Souls

107

Best Of: How to Read

108

Some Judicial Restraint

109

New York Loses Its Mind

110

A Way Of Seeing History

111

Remote Work and History

112

Lessons from Uvalde

113

A Crypto Intro

114

Some Abortion Sanity

115

From The Archive: The Happy Warrior

116

From The Archive: When The Demons Come

117

Escaping the InfoSilo

118

The Flat Tax Solution

119

A Disturbing Possibility

120

From The Archive: Rebels, Radicals and Reformers

121

Russia and an Unjust War

122

Nuanced and Wise

123

The Power of Generosity

124

The Self-Sustaining Nation

125

Putin’s Spiritual Vision

126

From The Archive: The Lie of White Supremacy

127

Microchips, Taiwan, and U.S. Survival

128

Engaging Russia and China

129

Union Station: A Symbol

130

Vital Religious Liberty

131

On the Ukraine

132

An Ungovernable America?

133

A Great Migration

134

Predictions & Prayers

135

The Dobbs Case and Abortion

136

The Meaning of Rittenhouse

137

The Thanksgiving Story

138

Sane Conservatism

139

From The Archive: Knowing Religion

140

The Disturbing Pope

141

American Wasteland

142

A Warning: Inflation

143

The College Debt Plague

144

From The Archive: On Christian Statesmanship

145

From The Archive: About Monopolies

146

From The Archive: The Leadership Vacuum

147

The Two Americas Abroad

148

Texas and the End of Roe

149

The Great Resignation

150

From The Archive: The Virtue of Tempered Capitalism

151

The Stench of Our Withdrawal

152

A Free Enterprise Victory

153

From The Archive: Planning for Economic Turmoil

154

Smart Fiction

155

The Coming Cuban Moment

156

The Coming Crisis: Water

157

What of Critical Race Theory?

158

The Tuskegee Syphilis Experiment

159

The Tulsa Race Massacre

160

QAnon and Conspiracy Theories

161

From The Archive: The Statue Version of History

162

From The Archive: The Politics of Personal Destruction

163

The January 6 Commission Mess

164

War With China?

165

The GOP’s Circular Firing Squad

166

Rapid-Fire #1

167

On DC Statehood

168

You, Me, and Getting Vaccinated

169

From The Archive: The 4 Commitments Of Billy Graham

170

Hunter v. Department of Education

171

On Guns—and an Apology

172

Wisdom, Not Extremes: Immigration

173

Really Good News!

174

The Meaning of the Equality Act

175

Stifling Myth

176

Crossing Lines

177

Our Vital Constitution

178

On Impeachment

179

The New Secular Right

180

Mr. Biden’s Cultural Revolution

181

Pastors and the Insurrection

182

The Insurrection, Part 1

183

The Current Crisis

184

The Good News

185

A New Political Party?

186

Next for the GOP?

187

Thank God for Nick Kristof

188

The Transition

189

Debunking the “Controversies” of Thanksgiving

190

The First Thanksgiving Story

191

Our System is Working

192

Election 2020: The Morning After

193

The State of the Race

194

ACB and Election Q&A

195

From The Archive: Racism: Christian and Conservative?

196

From The Archive: Battling the Coarseness

197

Religion and Judge Barrett

198

A Matter of Honor

199

Clickbait Facts

200

39 Children in Georgia

201

The Great Chasm

202

Patriotic Grace

203

The Kamala Harris Effect

204

Trump Three Months Out

205

Churches and COVID-19

206

Rebels, Radicals and Reformers

207

About Strong Women

208

An Evil Man in Turkey

209

Who is Jo Jorgensen?

210

Trump and the Supreme Court

211

A Prediction

212

Posse Comitatus?

213

Not the Great Depression

214

The Language of the Unheard

215

No Perfect Candidate

216

About Joe Biden

217

The Surprising 2020 Electoral Trends

218

The Art of Mastering Crisis

219

The Coming Acceleration

220

The Coming Renaissance

221

What’s Coming?

222

Religion and Our Epidemic

223

Learning the Lessons of COVID-19

224

C-19 and the Church

225

Standing in the C-19 Crisis

226

The Center in America

227

Truths About Corona

228

The Appeal of Socialism

229

On Age and Ageism

230

Rising Wealth in The World

231

On Impeachment and Speaking

232

Generations and the GOP

233

Who Do We Trust?

234

Behind the Scenes in Iran

235

The Killing of Soleimani

236

From The Archive: Is “Evangelical” a Bad Word?

237

From The Archive: How to Read

238

From The Archive: Some Christmas Recommendations

239

From The Archive: The Radical Middle (Part Two)

240

From The Archive: The Radical Middle (Part One)

241

Good Things Happening Today

242

Best Of: The Story of the First Thanksgiving

243

On Veterans

244

The Iranian Takeover of Iraq

245

What Baghdadi’s Death Means

246

America Receding

247

The Betrayal of The Kurds—Again

248

Will Trump Be Impeached?

249

Human Trafficking in Our Time

250

A US-Iranian War?

251

The Varsity Blues Scandal

252

Job Markets to Come

253

Greenland? Really?

254

The Meaning of Andrew Luck

255

Review: Netflix’s The Family

256

Stats Changing the World, Part 2

257

The Happy Warrior

258

Send Them Back?

259

From The Archive: Is the Top 1% Evil?

260

Immigration Folly

261

On Christian Statesmanship

262

An Economic Downturn?

263

From The Archive: My Book ‘Choosing Donald Trump’

264

Our Crisis of Debt

265

On Beth Moore and Women Leading

266

Movie Review: Emanuel

267

Stats Changing the World

268

Knowing Religion

269

The Value of Closed Sessions

270

A New Russian Threat

271

The Lie of White Supremacy

272

Our All or Nothing Politics

273

Anger and Immigration

274

Uncaged

275

About Monopolies

276

From The Archive: The Evangelical Crisis

277

In An Age of Justice

278

The Leadership Vacuum

279

Victory Over Hunger

280

The Virtue of Tempered Capitalism

281

The Cincinnatus Myth?

282

The Silence of the Right

283

Abortion Battles to Come

284

The Shutdown, Part 2

285

The Example of Bill Lee

286

A Revealing Proposal

287

From The Archive: Surviving the Shutdown

288

What’s Coming in 2019

289

The Coming Trump Crisis

290

Nations Rising

291

Tribute: George H.W. Bush

292

Global Warming Sanity

293

Stephen’s Reading Recs

294

The Electorate Bounces

295

Of Babies and Borders

296

Living Larger Than The Times

297

What About Saudi Arabia?

298

From The Archive: Healing Our Patriotic Souls

299

The Wisdom of Moderation

300

Fighting By The Rules

301

Syria, the Russians, and Israel

302

Joel Hunter: Hero

303

The Brilliance of Sasse

304

A Call For Innovation

305

In Praise of John McCain

306

On Roe v. Wade, Part II

307

On Roe v. Wade

308

Trump v. Conservatism

309

No Messianic Politics

310

Battling the Coarseness

311

Good News About the Kurds

312

Restoring the Law

313

How to Read

314

Melania and Leadership

315

We Need the Art of the Deal

316

When The Demons Come

317

We Are Losing Iraq

318

America Keeping Its Word

319

Black to Right

320

Planning for Economic Turmoil

321

The Politics of Personal Destruction

322

Best Of: Men and Affairs

323

In Honor of James Mattis

324

The Horrors of Chemical Weapons

325

One Good Thing

326

The Evangelical Crisis

327

ISIS Down the Street

328

The Need For Strength Abroad

329

More on Guns—and an Apology

330

The 4 Commitments Of Billy Graham

331

Guns, Rights, and Moderation

332

All Things Churchill

333

Protecting Americans Abroad

334

Why Afrin Matters

335

From The Archive: The Sexual Abuse Epidemic

336

Surviving the Shutdown

337

The Statue Version of History

338

Movie Review: Darkest Hour

339

Is “Evangelical” a Bad Word?

340

Some Christmas Recommendations

341

Healing Our Patriotic Souls

342

The Radical Middle (Part Two)

343

The Radical Middle (Part One)

344

From The Archive: The Story of the First Thanksgiving

345

The Sexual Abuse Epidemic

346

Report From Jerusalem

347

My Book ‘Choosing Donald Trump’

348

The Kurds Are Being Betrayed

349

Innovations of Our Time, Part 2

350

Innovations of Our Time, Part 1

351

My Question About Guns

352

The Launch of GreatMan!

353

The Wrong Side of History

354

Prophetic Distance

355

The Shadow Cabinet

356

Our Crises: Don’t Freakout!

357

Racism: Christian and Conservative?

358

The Tragedy of Silent Churches

359

Donald Trump and Me

360

A Tribute to the Queen

361

The Economic Correction

362

Is the Top 1% Evil?

363

From The Archive: Habits and the Brain

364

The Politics of Immaturity

365

What Looms for Kurdistan

366

The Alexandria Shooter

367

Time to Speak to Men

368

Fathers and Sons: Lessons from Presidents

369

The 3D Effect

370

A Surprising, Epic Speech

371

How News Comes: Turkey and the Kurds

372

On the Reading Life: Part 2

373

On the Reading Life

374

The Troubled American Campuses

375

On Syria

376

Gorsuch and Our Poisoned Politics

377

The Truth of the Crucifixion (2016)

378

Kurdistan Rising

379

Russia and Donald Trump

380

Guantanamo and Torture

381

Trump, Experts and Swamps

382

The Generals

383

On Neil Gorsuch

384

Standing With Women: Part 2

385

Bungling the Ban

386

Standing With Women

387

Getting Beyond the Headlines

388

The Curse of Opinions

389

Manhood and Our Moment in Time

390

The Story of Santa Claus (2015)

391

The Story of Christmas (2015)

392

The Worst of Times?

393

In Praise of Authentic Experience

394

A Christian View of Governing

395

The Story of the First Thanksgiving

396

Thoughts After the Election

397

Review: Hacksaw Ridge

398

Manhood and the Election

399

The Case for Election Reform

400

Trump, the Video, and the Nation

401

A Style Guide For Men

402

Review: Presidential Debate #1

403

Update On The Kurds

404

Speed Round Q&A with Stephen

405

They Said They Miss Their War

406

Getting Racially Righteous

407

The Leaders We Deserve

408

Stephen’s New Book for Men

409

Let The Numbers Speak

410

In Defense of Muslim Patriots

411

Watching The Conventions

412

Jesus, Race and Cops

413

Your Grandma Strategy

414

10 Truths About Orlando

415

Book Review: “Tribe” by Sebastian Junger

416

My Favorite Podcasts

417

Where Greatness Lies

418

Stephen’s 2016 Summer Reading List

419

It’s Clinton vs. Trump: What Now?

420

A Part of Publishing You Might Not Know

421

What I Learned as a TED Speaker: Part 2

422

What I Learned as a TED Speaker

423

Five Statistical Realities of the 2016 Presidential Race

424

Ode to Pat Conroy

425

Are We Now in WWIII? (2015)

426

The Truth of the Crucifixion

427

Is Anger the New American Religion?

428

EntreLeadership with Stephen Mansfield: The Beer That Changed the World

429

From The Archive: Men and Affairs

430

The Global Leadership Development Fund

431

“Tele” And The 2016 Candidates

432

New Hampshire: The Quixotic and the Calculating

433

The Simple Math of the 2016 Election: Part 2

434

The Simple Math of the 2016 Election

435

The Nobility of Preparing for Death

436

What Do the Candidates Know About Religion?

437

Owning 2016

438

The Story of Santa Claus

439

The Story of Christmas

440

Make The Candidates Explain Their Faith

441

A Principled Pro-Life Stand

442

Journey to Thanksgiving Part 2: The First Thanksgiving

443

Are We Now in WWIII?

444

Journey to Thanksgiving Day: Part 1

445

Time to Ask the Question

446

Ode to Band of Brothers

447

On The Current Crisis in Israel

448

On the 20th Anniversary of “Braveheart”

449

A Plan For Building Your Band of Brothers

450

Rape and the Self-Policing Culture of Men

451

The G.O.P., Hillary Clinton and Bernie Sanders

452

Building Healthy Leadership Cultures

453

2016: Year of the GreatMan

454

Learning How to Learn: The 2015 Edition

455

Men and Affairs

456

Ten Things I Have Changed About How I Write

457

Speaking and the Republican Debate

458

The Planned Parenthood Videos

459

The Christian Addiction to Bad News

460

What About the Confederate Flag?

461

The Court, the Country and Same Sex Marriage

462

How To Stay Informed

463

The Republican Crisis

464

Is The Charleston Shooter Insane?

465

What I Saw in Kurdistan: Part 2

466

What I Saw in Kurdistan: Part 1

467

Why I’m Going to Kurdistan

468

Obama’s Faith: Was I Right?

469

In Honor of Mothers

470

Habits and the Brain

471

The Coming Victory Over ISIS

472

A Culture of Righteous Manhood

473

Building Your Band of Brothers

474

What is a GreatMan Event?

475

The War On Men

476

The Tragedy of Silent Churches: Part 2

477

The Tragedy of Silent Churches: Part 1

478

Young Men Are Setting the World Aflame

479

How To Help The Kurds

480

A World Being Redefined

481

Defeating The Big Lie

482

A Challenge For 2015

483

7 Things To Do For Christmas

484

Comments on Ferguson

485

Advice to Republicans

486

An Excerpt from Stephen’s New Book, “The Miracle of the Kurds”

487

Interview With Dr. Mark Rutland

488

Learning How to Learn: Part 2

489

Learning How to Learn, Part 1

490

It’s Time for the U.S. to Back the Kurds: Update

491

What ISIS is Doing In Iraq

492

The GreatMan

493

The Porn Plague

494

A Tribute to John Seigenthaler

495

An Interview With R.T. Phillips

496

It’s Time for the U.S. To Back the Kurds

497

The Crisis of Barbaric Boys

498

Live: From The Great Man Event, May 27th, 2014

499

Success and Change

500

Churchill’s Crisis Leadership

501

The War on Boys

502

Race and Our Times: Part 4

503

Race and Our Times: Part 3

504

Race and Our Times: Part 2

505

Race and Our Times: Part 1

506

Lincoln’s Personal Legacy

507

The Obama-O’Reilly Debate

508

The Disney Factor

509

The Gorilla Theory of Men

510

Trends and Predictions for 2014

511

Ducking the Call

512

Purity and Performance

513

Movie Review: The Butler

514

The Government Shutdown

515

Tribute: The Navy Yard Shooting Victims

516

Religion and the Syrian Crisis

517

On Zite

518

Reza Aslan and Lauren Green

519

An American Plague

520

The Trayvon Martin-Zimmerman Case

521

BackTalk: Invasions of Privacy, Kermit Gosnell and More

522

Stephen Mansfield: Heretic?

523

The Continued Over-reach of Government

524

2nd Anniversary Upgrades

525

Hollingsworth v. Perry: The Same-Sex Marriage Case

526

The Truth of Lincoln’s Assassination

527

Remembering Booker T. Washington

528

The Meaning of the New Pope

529

The Crisis of Privacy

530

Speaking, Writing, Reading: The Power of Words

531

Nashville Rising

532

White Smoke: Thoughts on the Coming Papal Election

533

On Pope Benedict XVI

534

The Rise of Turkey

535

Abraham Lincoln and Conservatives

536

Beyond the E-Z Bible

537

Lincoln, Obama and Inaugurations

538

Answering the Culture of Despair

539

Hope for the New Year

540

My Favorite Books of 2012

541

Rob Bell’s Universalism: Revisited

542

Seven Principles for Political Candidacy

543

Four More Years

544

Romney’s “Great Hope”

545

The Final Presidential Debate

546

Signs of a Leadership Crash

547

My Book: Lincoln’s Battle With God

548

The Mormonizing of America: an Author’s Experience

549

Mormonism Q & A

550

Ebooks in Adolescence

551

Heroic Black Men and Their Church

552

How I Coach Effective Speakers

553

Seven Faith Fault Lines of the 2012 Election

554

Of Course There’s a Religious Test

555

The “Human Inferno” Faith Test

556

Rage on the Right

557

Faith Stats

558

What Romney Believes

559

Romney’s Mormonism: Will It Help Him Lead?

560

The Mormonizing of America: Chapter One of the Audiobook

561

Stephen Reads From His New Book on Mormonism

562

Pillars of Christian Politics

563

World Religions On Your Own

564

What is Celtic Theology?

565

The Vanderbilt University Version of Equality

566

Eroding Civil Rights

567

What Happened in North Carolina?

568

The Great Tuning Fork

569

Backtalk and Q & A

570

The 2012 Presidential Race: April 2012 Update

571

Victims’ Rights: The Coming Debate

572

More Christian than Hard-Right

573

Executing Newborn Babies

574

The Health Care/Birth Control Debate: Where Do We Stand?

575

Four Horsemen of Our Age

576

Why Can’t Barack Obama be a Christian?

577

Tell the Truth About Our History

578

The 2012 Presidential Race: February 2012 Update

579

Backtalk: Christianity, the Third Way

580

Backtalk: Is Mormonism a Cult?

581

The World’s Most Persecuted Religion

582

NDAA 2012: The War on Civil Liberties

583

Christianity: The Third Way

584

Stephen’s Top Ten Faith Trends of 2011

585

Stephen’s Top Ten Movies for the Holidays

586

Stephen’s Christmas Book List

587

The Rise of Newt Gingrich

588

Is Mormonism a Cult?

589

Religious Tests: A Good Thing?

590

Is Obama Going to Win?

591

Ron Paul and the Tenth Amendment

592

The Gibson Guitar Raid

593

The Palestinian State

594

Self Education: A Crucial Skill for Our Time

595

Are All Religions One?

596

The 2012 Presidential Race: September 2011 Update

597

China’s One Child Policy

598

The Grandma Strategy

599

The Future of Publishing

600

Backtalk: The Mormon Moment in America

601

A Writer’s Workshop

602

The Mormon Moment in America

603

The Faith of Barack Obama: A New Turn

604

Oprah Winfrey’s New Age Conundrum

605

Backtalk — The 2012 Presidential Candidates

606

Rob Bell’s Universalism

607

Backtalk — The Middle East and Demographics

608

The Just War Theory: Killing Bin Laden

609

Behind The Search for God and Guinness

610

The 2012 Presidential Candidates and their Religion

611

The Middle East and Demographics

612

Stephen’s Book List