Three Themes for 2025

Schools and technology, pro-family policy, seeking moderation in politics - and more

My columns last year congregated around three themes: (1) schools and technology, (2) family policy, and (3) moderation in politics. Some of my favorites are listed below. All were published with the Dallas Morning News. I hope you’ll peruse the ones that interest you as these topics are evergreen in 2025.

This year promises to add a few more themes. I’ll especially be watching what happens in the first 100 days of the new Administration and Congress.

In the meantime, happy reading and Happy New Year to you and yours.

Schools & Technology

• Eden’s Apple is in our pockets

• Phones are ruining childhood. Here are 3 steps Dallas ISD should take

• School phone reforms still needed

• Yes, surgeon general, label social media

• Texas should be second state to ban phones in schools

• New school technology policy makes this mom happy

• Accountability for screen time in Dallas schools should go both ways

Family Policy

• Our kids are not OK. Neither is our child policy

• IVF ruling creates more questions than answers

• What if the pro-life movement had the wrong goal?

• Our culture is confused over the most basic things about mothers, fathers and children

• The motherhood issue no one will talk about

• Republicans have more in common with the French than they think

• On Dobbs anniversary, red states have made progress, but more is needed

• Stop taxing marriage

Seeking Moderation in Politics

• Waiting for politics to return to normal? What if it already has?

• After Nov. 5, we’re all in this together

• Here’s what makes America great

• This election was a contest of worldviews

• Harris and Trump need an economics primer

• Biden should take border deal

• Can’t Washington give us an honest deal?

• Do Harris and Trump want to save the country or not?