Pride Month
Why is there so much enthusiasm by so many people to celebrate non-heterosexual sexuality? For a whole month? It was June 11,…
Thomas Hampson
Writing for IFI since 2023 140 articles
Articles by Thomas Hampson
Trivializing Trauma
Over the last several years there has been a growing movement to normalize pedophilia. In fact, using the term, pedophile, is beginning…
Overcoming Evil
Our future depends on our children. It has for all of time so you would think that everyone would agree we need…
Ignoring Evil
The problem of child sexual abuse in the United States is far greater than most people realize. Sixty million American adults are…
Replacing Education with Activism
Librarians and teachers, coast to coast, once again have been sounding the alarm over a new wave of book bannings rolling across…
Grooming by Proxy
What motivates someone to become a teacher? If you love history or math or biology, for example, I can understand why you…
Our Cultural Challenge
In 2002, the British Broadcasting Corporation polled its viewers for the names of those they believed were the greatest Britons of all…
Facts Matter
Several decades ago, a very prominent liberal in Illinois once told me that “there are facts and there are principles. I believe…
The Trans Divide
The world’s richest man has it right. Last Friday Elon Musk tweeted, “[a]ny parent or doctor who sterilizes a child before they…
No Common Sense
Schools throughout Illinois have implemented rules that require students to be allowed to use the restrooms and locker rooms consistent with their…
Undermining the Next Generation
Our sexualized culture not only is making children more vulnerable to sexual exploitation, it also is producing more child sexual predators. This…
California Dreaming?
Is it possible that our legislators are trying their best to make Illinois the California of the Midwest, without the mountains or…