Timothy S. Goeglein

Timothy S. Goeglein is vice president of Focus on the Family, Washington, D.C., and author of the new book “Toward a More Perfect Union: The Cultural and Moral Case for Teaching the Great American Story” (Fidelis Publishing, 2023).

As We Celebrate Freedom, Let’s Keep the American Spirit Alive

Commentary In his eloquent and prophetic January 1989 farewell address to the nation, President Ronald Reagan gave us ...

Viewpoints July 3, 2023
Why Faith and Family Are the Cure for Loneliness

Commentary A few weeks ago, the U.S. surgeon general issued an alarming report (pdf) on the state of ...

Viewpoints May 31, 2023
Cohabitation Isn’t the Key to Marital Success

Commentary The late James Q. Wilson wrote in his essay, "Why We Don’t Marry,” that “marriage was once ...

Viewpoints May 8, 2023
Avoiding the Demographic Danger Zone

Commentary In a recent article in The Atlantic, Derek Thompson wrote: “The implications of permanently slumped population growth ...

Viewpoints April 12, 2023
Marriage Is Key to a Happy Life

Commentary In 1870, on the occasion of the engagement of Queen Victoria’s daughter Louise, the great British statesman ...

Viewpoints March 24, 2023
Ignorance Is the End of Freedom

Commentary There's currently a raging national debate on what our students should know or not know about American ...

Viewpoints February 9, 2023
Restoring the Past to Protect the Future

Commentary On May 20, 2021, then-Attorney General William Barr gave an amazing speech on the erosion of religious ...

Viewpoints January 16, 2023
Where the Men Are—They’re Not at Work

Commentary In a recent podcast with Mike Rowe, host of the popular show "Dirty Jobs," which highlights the ...

Viewpoints November 16, 2022
Our Boys Are Struggling, and Our Society Is, Too

Commentary In 1972, the late Francis Schaeffer writes in "He Is There and He Is Not Silent": “The dilemma of modern ...

Viewpoints October 14, 2022
Don’t Know Much About History

Commentary In 1960, the late Sam Cooke released the song “Wonderful World,” which contains the lyrics, "Don't know much about ...

Viewpoints September 27, 2022
Teens and Tech Don’t Mix

Commentary Over the past several years, we have seen incident after incident that has shown that the “kids ...

Viewpoints August 31, 2022
We’re Reliving the ‘Lord of the Flies’

Commentary In 1954, Nobel Prize-winning author William Golding published the book "Lord of the Flies." The novel and ...

Viewpoints August 8, 2022
Nellie Gray: A Portrait of Perseverance in the Quest for Civil Rights

Commentary On June 24, 2022, the U.S. Supreme Court overturned the 50-year-old Roe v. Wade decision—ironically on the ...

Viewpoints July 8, 2022
Marriage Really Is Best

Commentary Former President Ronald Reagan said in a 1986 radio address, “Some have suggested that in today’s world, ...

Viewpoints May 13, 2022
Our Kids’ Faith: Committed Parents Lead to Committed Children

Commentary Well-known Christian pastor and author Chuck Swindoll has written (pdf), “Wise is the parent who understands, ‘I ...

Viewpoints January 20, 2022
America the Faithful

Commentary On Aug. 23, 1984, at an ecumenical prayer breakfast in Dallas, then-President Ronald Reagan said (pdf), “Without God, ...

Viewpoints December 29, 2021
Not Just Bowling Alone

Commentary Dr. Peter H. Schuck, professor emeritus at Yale University, wrote in his book, "One Nation Undecided: Clear ...

Viewpoints December 8, 2021
Marriage and Family in the Post-COVID-19 World

Commentary “The new wealth in America is familial wealth, and the new poverty, familial poverty,” Mary Eberstadt, a senior ...

Viewpoints November 10, 2021
Justice Clarence Thomas: A Legacy of Citizenship and Duty

Commentary In 2016, Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas delivered the commencement address to graduates at Hillsdale College in ...

Viewpoints October 12, 2021
The Incredible Shrinking Campus Male

Commentary A few months before his death, Walter Williams, the foremost columnist and professor at George Mason University, ...

Viewpoints September 28, 2021
A Silver Lining in the Pandemic Cloud

Commentary Harvard professor Robert Putman, author of the groundbreaking sociological book "Bowling Alone," said if he was given ...

Viewpoints September 15, 2021
Teaching True American History

Commentary In his eloquent and prophetic January 1989 farewell address to the nation (pdf), President Ronald Reagan gave ...

Viewpoints September 6, 2021
Marriage Is Once Again a Priority—And That’s Good for America

Commentary Famed economist Thomas Sowell has written: “Despite attempts to equate married couples with people who are living ...

Viewpoints August 19, 2021
How Virtue Leads to Restoration

The growing awareness of what he has lost begs the question: 'How do we restore virtue in a ...

Life & Tradition September 26, 2019