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1

Dead Pool World

2

Diplomacy Matters!

3

Our Crisis of Reading

4

Fun Learning in the 250th

5

Principles for Life

6

Saving American History

7

In Defense of the Kurds

8

Hear Ben Sasse!

9

Whitefield and America

10

Religion is the Issue

11

Read the Declaration

12

The Tyranny of Utopia

13

Thoughts on Iran

14

Preserving Fire

15

The Coming Crisis: Water [From the Archives]

16

Seeing Behind the Scenes

17

A New Day for Iran

18

The 600th! Q&A

19

Three Great Evils

20

Deadly Ideas Rising

21

Newton's 3rd Law

22

Fixing Birthright Citizenship

23

The Battle for Guinness

24

The Evil of Political Violence

25

Remembering Charlie Kirk

26

D.C. and Home Rule

27

AI and the Human

28

Still Here: The Johnson Amendment

29

Not THE Culture!

30

Are Abortions Increasing?

31

A New Day for Iran

32

Immigration— Work the Problem!

33

The Putin Delusion

34

Fixing College Football

35

The Creativity Crisis

36

9 Billion for Harvard?

37

Slaying Worry

38

Extreme Damage

39

The White House Fight and the Kurds

40

Ukraine and Valor

41

Losing Hollywood

42

A Modest Proposal About Religion

43

Leadership and Jimmy Carter

44

The News: Your Expertise and Knowing the Story

45

Rituals of Peace

46

The March of Folly

47

The 2024 Election: A Millennial Interview

48

7 Truths of the 2024 Election

49

The Math That Makes a President

50

The Crisis of Reading

51

The Foreign Policy Switch

52

Some Risky Predictions

53

Our Political Moment

54

The Hamlet Effect

55

When Your Enemy is Destroying Himself

56

American History Turns

57

Five Vital Stats

58

Flags, Embassies, and a Radical Idea

59

A Cry For Heroes

60

The Gen Z Baby Boomer Gap

61

Ten Facts Shaping Your World

62

Our Toxic Campuses

63

A Just War Primer

64

My Government and Me

65

ISIS-K Strikes Again

66

Why No Two-State Solution

67

A Good Man Leaves Us

68

The Iranian Battleplan

69

2024: A Year of War

70

Knowing Your University

71

The Lies About Ukraine

72

How Did We Get Christmas?

73

Racism and Christian Theology

74

The Thanksgiving Story 2023

75

Don't Fund Your Enemies

76

Israel, Gaza, and Tomorrow

77

Reality Distortion in Politics

78

Boys and Society

79

Four Economic Trends

80

The Maui Fire: A Warning

81

Politics as Crime: A Warning

82

Review: Sound of Freedom

83

Supreme Court Sanity

84

A Summer News Survey

85

A New Day for the GOP

86

A Sports Betting Plague

87

The Power of the Trades

88

When The U.S. Projects Weakness

89

The Nashville Shooting

90

Why Ukraine?

91

The Malaise of Congress

92

On Jimmy Carter

93

Demonic Women?

94

Thoughts on Energy & Grieving Tyre

95

Three Lives and the Lessons Learned, Part 2

96

Three Lives and the Lessons Learned, Part 1

97

How To Face The Future

98

Lynchpin – The Nord Stream Explosion

99

Two Huge Trends and a Gripe

100

What is Christian Nationalism?

101

Mahsa Amini and Tulsi Gabbard

102

The Constitution a Covenant with God?

103

A High Courage, a Quiet Heart

104

Not Serious About Student Debt

105

Stephen’s Top 7

106

From The Archive: All Things Churchill

107

From The Archive: Victory Over Hunger

108

Best Of: Is “Evangelical” a Bad Word?

109

Best Of: The Radical Middle (Part Two)

110

Best Of: The Radical Middle (Part One)

111

Best Of: Healing Our Patriotic Souls

112

Best Of: How to Read

113

Some Judicial Restraint

114

New York Loses Its Mind

115

A Way Of Seeing History

116

Remote Work and History

117

Lessons from Uvalde

118

A Crypto Intro

119

Some Abortion Sanity

120

From The Archive: The Happy Warrior

121

From The Archive: When The Demons Come

122

Escaping the InfoSilo

123

The Flat Tax Solution

124

A Disturbing Possibility

125

From The Archive: Rebels, Radicals and Reformers

126

Russia and an Unjust War

127

Nuanced and Wise

128

The Power of Generosity

129

The Self-Sustaining Nation

130

Putin’s Spiritual Vision

131

From The Archive: The Lie of White Supremacy

132

Microchips, Taiwan, and U.S. Survival

133

Engaging Russia and China

134

Union Station: A Symbol

135

Vital Religious Liberty

136

On the Ukraine

137

An Ungovernable America?

138

A Great Migration

139

Predictions & Prayers

140

The Dobbs Case and Abortion

141

The Meaning of Rittenhouse

142

The Thanksgiving Story

143

Sane Conservatism

144

From The Archive: Knowing Religion

145

The Disturbing Pope

146

American Wasteland

147

A Warning: Inflation

148

The College Debt Plague

149

From The Archive: On Christian Statesmanship

150

From The Archive: About Monopolies

151

From The Archive: The Leadership Vacuum

152

The Two Americas Abroad

153

Texas and the End of Roe

154

The Great Resignation

155

From The Archive: The Virtue of Tempered Capitalism

156

The Stench of Our Withdrawal

157

A Free Enterprise Victory

158

From The Archive: Planning for Economic Turmoil

159

Smart Fiction

160

The Coming Cuban Moment

161

The Coming Crisis: Water

162

What of Critical Race Theory?

163

The Tuskegee Syphilis Experiment

164

The Tulsa Race Massacre

165

QAnon and Conspiracy Theories

166

From The Archive: The Statue Version of History

167

From The Archive: The Politics of Personal Destruction

168

The January 6 Commission Mess

169

War With China?

170

The GOP’s Circular Firing Squad

171

Rapid-Fire #1

172

On DC Statehood

173

You, Me, and Getting Vaccinated

174

From The Archive: The 4 Commitments Of Billy Graham

175

Hunter v. Department of Education

176

On Guns—and an Apology

177

Wisdom, Not Extremes: Immigration

178

Really Good News!

179

The Meaning of the Equality Act

180

Stifling Myth

181

Crossing Lines

182

Our Vital Constitution

183

On Impeachment

184

The New Secular Right

185

Mr. Biden’s Cultural Revolution

186

Pastors and the Insurrection

187

The Insurrection, Part 1

188

The Current Crisis

189

The Good News

190

A New Political Party?

191

Next for the GOP?

192

Thank God for Nick Kristof

193

The Transition

194

Debunking the “Controversies” of Thanksgiving

195

The First Thanksgiving Story

196

Our System is Working

197

Election 2020: The Morning After

198

The State of the Race

199

ACB and Election Q&A

200

From The Archive: Racism: Christian and Conservative?

201

From The Archive: Battling the Coarseness

202

Religion and Judge Barrett

203

A Matter of Honor

204

Clickbait Facts

205

39 Children in Georgia

206

The Great Chasm

207

Patriotic Grace

208

The Kamala Harris Effect

209

Trump Three Months Out

210

Churches and COVID-19

211

Rebels, Radicals and Reformers

212

About Strong Women

213

An Evil Man in Turkey

214

Who is Jo Jorgensen?

215

Trump and the Supreme Court

216

A Prediction

217

Posse Comitatus?

218

Not the Great Depression

219

The Language of the Unheard

220

No Perfect Candidate

221

About Joe Biden

222

The Surprising 2020 Electoral Trends

223

The Art of Mastering Crisis

224

The Coming Acceleration

225

The Coming Renaissance

226

What’s Coming?

227

Religion and Our Epidemic

228

Learning the Lessons of COVID-19

229

C-19 and the Church

230

Standing in the C-19 Crisis

231

The Center in America

232

Truths About Corona

233

The Appeal of Socialism

234

On Age and Ageism

235

Rising Wealth in The World

236

On Impeachment and Speaking

237

Generations and the GOP

238

Who Do We Trust?

239

Behind the Scenes in Iran

240

The Killing of Soleimani

241

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

242

From The Archive: How to Read

243

From The Archive: Some Christmas Recommendations

244

From The Archive: The Radical Middle (Part Two)

245

From The Archive: The Radical Middle (Part One)

246

Good Things Happening Today

247

Best Of: The Story of the First Thanksgiving

248

On Veterans

249

The Iranian Takeover of Iraq

250

What Baghdadi’s Death Means

251

America Receding

252

The Betrayal of The Kurds—Again

253

Will Trump Be Impeached?

254

Human Trafficking in Our Time

255

A US-Iranian War?

256

The Varsity Blues Scandal

257

Job Markets to Come

258

Greenland? Really?

259

The Meaning of Andrew Luck

260

Review: Netflix’s The Family

261

Stats Changing the World, Part 2

262

The Happy Warrior

263

Send Them Back?

264

From The Archive: Is the Top 1% Evil?

265

Immigration Folly

266

On Christian Statesmanship

267

An Economic Downturn?

268

From The Archive: My Book ‘Choosing Donald Trump’

269

Our Crisis of Debt

270

On Beth Moore and Women Leading

271

Movie Review: Emanuel

272

Stats Changing the World

273

Knowing Religion

274

The Value of Closed Sessions

275

A New Russian Threat

276

The Lie of White Supremacy

277

Our All or Nothing Politics

278

Anger and Immigration

279

Uncaged

280

About Monopolies

281

From The Archive: The Evangelical Crisis

282

In An Age of Justice

283

The Leadership Vacuum

284

Victory Over Hunger

285

The Virtue of Tempered Capitalism

286

The Cincinnatus Myth?

287

The Silence of the Right

288

Abortion Battles to Come

289

The Shutdown, Part 2

290

The Example of Bill Lee

291

A Revealing Proposal

292

From The Archive: Surviving the Shutdown

293

What’s Coming in 2019

294

The Coming Trump Crisis

295

Nations Rising

296

Tribute: George H.W. Bush

297

Global Warming Sanity

298

Stephen’s Reading Recs

299

The Electorate Bounces

300

Of Babies and Borders

301

Living Larger Than The Times

302

What About Saudi Arabia?

303

From The Archive: Healing Our Patriotic Souls

304

The Wisdom of Moderation

305

Fighting By The Rules

306

Syria, the Russians, and Israel

307

Joel Hunter: Hero

308

The Brilliance of Sasse

309

A Call For Innovation

310

In Praise of John McCain

311

On Roe v. Wade, Part II

312

On Roe v. Wade

313

Trump v. Conservatism

314

No Messianic Politics

315

Battling the Coarseness

316

Good News About the Kurds

317

Restoring the Law

318

How to Read

319

Melania and Leadership

320

We Need the Art of the Deal

321

When The Demons Come

322

We Are Losing Iraq

323

America Keeping Its Word

324

Black to Right

325

Planning for Economic Turmoil

326

The Politics of Personal Destruction

327

Best Of: Men and Affairs

328

In Honor of James Mattis

329

The Horrors of Chemical Weapons

330

One Good Thing

331

The Evangelical Crisis

332

ISIS Down the Street

333

The Need For Strength Abroad

334

More on Guns—and an Apology

335

The 4 Commitments Of Billy Graham

336

Guns, Rights, and Moderation

337

All Things Churchill

338

Protecting Americans Abroad

339

Why Afrin Matters

340

From The Archive: The Sexual Abuse Epidemic

341

Surviving the Shutdown

342

The Statue Version of History

343

Movie Review: Darkest Hour

344

Is “Evangelical” a Bad Word?

345

Some Christmas Recommendations

346

Healing Our Patriotic Souls

347

The Radical Middle (Part Two)

348

The Radical Middle (Part One)

349

From The Archive: The Story of the First Thanksgiving

350

The Sexual Abuse Epidemic

351

Report From Jerusalem

352

My Book ‘Choosing Donald Trump’

353

The Kurds Are Being Betrayed

354

Innovations of Our Time, Part 2

355

Innovations of Our Time, Part 1

356

My Question About Guns

357

The Launch of GreatMan!

358

The Wrong Side of History

359

Prophetic Distance

360

The Shadow Cabinet

361

Our Crises: Don’t Freakout!

362

Racism: Christian and Conservative?

363

The Tragedy of Silent Churches

364

Donald Trump and Me

365

A Tribute to the Queen

366

The Economic Correction

367

Is the Top 1% Evil?

368

From The Archive: Habits and the Brain

369

The Politics of Immaturity

370

What Looms for Kurdistan

371

The Alexandria Shooter

372

Time to Speak to Men

373

Fathers and Sons: Lessons from Presidents

374

The 3D Effect

375

A Surprising, Epic Speech

376

How News Comes: Turkey and the Kurds

377

On the Reading Life: Part 2

378

On the Reading Life

379

The Troubled American Campuses

380

On Syria

381

Gorsuch and Our Poisoned Politics

382

The Truth of the Crucifixion (2016)

383

Kurdistan Rising

384

Russia and Donald Trump

385

Guantanamo and Torture

386

Trump, Experts and Swamps

387

The Generals

388

On Neil Gorsuch

389

Standing With Women: Part 2

390

Bungling the Ban

391

Standing With Women

392

Getting Beyond the Headlines

393

The Curse of Opinions

394

Manhood and Our Moment in Time

395

The Story of Santa Claus (2015)

396

The Story of Christmas (2015)

397

The Worst of Times?

398

In Praise of Authentic Experience

399

A Christian View of Governing

400

The Story of the First Thanksgiving

401

Thoughts After the Election

402

Review: Hacksaw Ridge

403

Manhood and the Election

404

The Case for Election Reform

405

Trump, the Video, and the Nation

406

A Style Guide For Men

407

Review: Presidential Debate #1

408

Update On The Kurds

409

Speed Round Q&A with Stephen

410

They Said They Miss Their War

411

Getting Racially Righteous

412

The Leaders We Deserve

413

Stephen’s New Book for Men

414

Let The Numbers Speak

415

In Defense of Muslim Patriots

416

Watching The Conventions

417

Jesus, Race and Cops

418

Your Grandma Strategy

419

10 Truths About Orlando

420

Book Review: “Tribe” by Sebastian Junger

421

My Favorite Podcasts

422

Where Greatness Lies

423

Stephen’s 2016 Summer Reading List

424

It’s Clinton vs. Trump: What Now?

425

A Part of Publishing You Might Not Know

426

What I Learned as a TED Speaker: Part 2

427

What I Learned as a TED Speaker

428

Five Statistical Realities of the 2016 Presidential Race

429

Ode to Pat Conroy

430

Are We Now in WWIII? (2015)

431

The Truth of the Crucifixion

432

Is Anger the New American Religion?

433

EntreLeadership with Stephen Mansfield: The Beer That Changed the World

434

From The Archive: Men and Affairs

435

The Global Leadership Development Fund

436

“Tele” And The 2016 Candidates

437

New Hampshire: The Quixotic and the Calculating

438

The Simple Math of the 2016 Election: Part 2

439

The Simple Math of the 2016 Election

440

The Nobility of Preparing for Death

441

What Do the Candidates Know About Religion?

442

Owning 2016

443

The Story of Santa Claus

444

The Story of Christmas

445

Make The Candidates Explain Their Faith

446

A Principled Pro-Life Stand

447

Journey to Thanksgiving Part 2: The First Thanksgiving

448

Are We Now in WWIII?

449

Journey to Thanksgiving Day: Part 1

450

Time to Ask the Question

451

Ode to Band of Brothers

452

On The Current Crisis in Israel

453

On the 20th Anniversary of “Braveheart”

454

A Plan For Building Your Band of Brothers

455

Rape and the Self-Policing Culture of Men

456

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

457

Building Healthy Leadership Cultures

458

2016: Year of the GreatMan

459

Learning How to Learn: The 2015 Edition

460

Men and Affairs

461

Ten Things I Have Changed About How I Write

462

Speaking and the Republican Debate

463

The Planned Parenthood Videos

464

The Christian Addiction to Bad News

465

What About the Confederate Flag?

466

The Court, the Country and Same Sex Marriage

467

How To Stay Informed

468

The Republican Crisis

469

Is The Charleston Shooter Insane?

470

What I Saw in Kurdistan: Part 2

471

What I Saw in Kurdistan: Part 1

472

Why I’m Going to Kurdistan

473

Obama’s Faith: Was I Right?

474

In Honor of Mothers

475

Habits and the Brain

476

The Coming Victory Over ISIS

477

A Culture of Righteous Manhood

478

Building Your Band of Brothers

479

What is a GreatMan Event?

480

The War On Men

481

The Tragedy of Silent Churches: Part 2

482

The Tragedy of Silent Churches: Part 1

483

Young Men Are Setting the World Aflame

484

How To Help The Kurds

485

A World Being Redefined

486

Defeating The Big Lie

487

A Challenge For 2015

488

7 Things To Do For Christmas

489

Comments on Ferguson

490

Advice to Republicans

491

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

492

Interview With Dr. Mark Rutland

493

Learning How to Learn: Part 2

494

Learning How to Learn, Part 1

495

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

496

What ISIS is Doing In Iraq

497

The GreatMan

498

The Porn Plague

499

A Tribute to John Seigenthaler

500

An Interview With R.T. Phillips

501

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

502

The Crisis of Barbaric Boys

503

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

504

Success and Change

505

Churchill’s Crisis Leadership

506

The War on Boys

507

Race and Our Times: Part 4

508

Race and Our Times: Part 3

509

Race and Our Times: Part 2

510

Race and Our Times: Part 1

511

Lincoln’s Personal Legacy

512

The Obama-O’Reilly Debate

513

The Disney Factor

514

The Gorilla Theory of Men

515

Trends and Predictions for 2014

516

Ducking the Call

517

Purity and Performance

518

Movie Review: The Butler

519

The Government Shutdown

520

Tribute: The Navy Yard Shooting Victims

521

Religion and the Syrian Crisis

522

On Zite

523

Reza Aslan and Lauren Green

524

An American Plague

525

The Trayvon Martin-Zimmerman Case

526

BackTalk: Invasions of Privacy, Kermit Gosnell and More

527

Stephen Mansfield: Heretic?

528

The Continued Over-reach of Government

529

2nd Anniversary Upgrades

530

Hollingsworth v. Perry: The Same-Sex Marriage Case

531

The Truth of Lincoln’s Assassination

532

Remembering Booker T. Washington

533

The Meaning of the New Pope

534

The Crisis of Privacy

535

Speaking, Writing, Reading: The Power of Words

536

Nashville Rising

537

White Smoke: Thoughts on the Coming Papal Election

538

On Pope Benedict XVI

539

The Rise of Turkey

540

Abraham Lincoln and Conservatives

541

Beyond the E-Z Bible

542

Lincoln, Obama and Inaugurations

543

Answering the Culture of Despair

544

Hope for the New Year

545

My Favorite Books of 2012

546

Rob Bell’s Universalism: Revisited

547

Seven Principles for Political Candidacy

548

Four More Years

549

Romney’s “Great Hope”

550

The Final Presidential Debate

551

Signs of a Leadership Crash

552

My Book: Lincoln’s Battle With God

553

The Mormonizing of America: an Author’s Experience

554

Mormonism Q & A

555

Ebooks in Adolescence

556

Heroic Black Men and Their Church

557

How I Coach Effective Speakers

558

Seven Faith Fault Lines of the 2012 Election

559

Of Course There’s a Religious Test

560

The “Human Inferno” Faith Test

561

Rage on the Right

562

Faith Stats

563

What Romney Believes

564

Romney’s Mormonism: Will It Help Him Lead?

565

The Mormonizing of America: Chapter One of the Audiobook

566

Stephen Reads From His New Book on Mormonism

567

Pillars of Christian Politics

568

World Religions On Your Own

569

What is Celtic Theology?

570

The Vanderbilt University Version of Equality

571

Eroding Civil Rights

572

What Happened in North Carolina?

573

The Great Tuning Fork

574

Backtalk and Q & A

575

The 2012 Presidential Race: April 2012 Update

576

Victims’ Rights: The Coming Debate

577

More Christian than Hard-Right

578

Executing Newborn Babies

579

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

580

Four Horsemen of Our Age

581

Why Can’t Barack Obama be a Christian?

582

Tell the Truth About Our History

583

The 2012 Presidential Race: February 2012 Update

584

Backtalk: Christianity, the Third Way

585

Backtalk: Is Mormonism a Cult?

586

The World’s Most Persecuted Religion

587

NDAA 2012: The War on Civil Liberties

588

Christianity: The Third Way

589

Stephen’s Top Ten Faith Trends of 2011

590

Stephen’s Top Ten Movies for the Holidays

591

Stephen’s Christmas Book List

592

The Rise of Newt Gingrich

593

Is Mormonism a Cult?

594

Religious Tests: A Good Thing?

595

Is Obama Going to Win?

596

Ron Paul and the Tenth Amendment

597

The Gibson Guitar Raid

598

The Palestinian State

599

Self Education: A Crucial Skill for Our Time

600

Are All Religions One?

601

The 2012 Presidential Race: September 2011 Update

602

China’s One Child Policy

603

The Grandma Strategy

604

The Future of Publishing

605

Backtalk: The Mormon Moment in America

606

A Writer’s Workshop

607

The Mormon Moment in America

608

The Faith of Barack Obama: A New Turn

609

Oprah Winfrey’s New Age Conundrum

610

Backtalk — The 2012 Presidential Candidates

611

Rob Bell’s Universalism

612

Backtalk — The Middle East and Demographics

613

The Just War Theory: Killing Bin Laden

614

Behind The Search for God and Guinness

615

The 2012 Presidential Candidates and their Religion

616

The Middle East and Demographics

617

Stephen’s Book List