Author: Shalem John

September 3, 2014, felt like any other ordinary day for Angelia Pranthaman—until the Malaysian national found out that Singapore’s police had arrested her older brother Pannir Selvam Pranthaman for trafficking drugs into the Southeast Asian country. Singapore’s Immigration and Checkpoints Authority (ICA) officers stopped 27-year-old Pannir for a random search as he tried to cross the Malaysia-Singapore border at Woodlands Checkpoint, the world’s busiest land crossing. The officers discovered he was carrying diamorphine, or heroin. Three years later, the High Court of Singapore convicted Pannir of importing 51.84 grams of heroin from Malaysia to Singapore and sentenced him to death,…

New restrictions on campus speech in Texas have spurred a lawsuit from a coalition of student groups, including a Dallas ministry concerned about the impact on Bible studies, worship nights, and evangelism on campus. The Campus Protection Act bans First Amendment–protected speech or expressive conduct between 10 p.m. and 8 a.m. and prohibits using amplified sound, playing drums, or inviting guest speakers during the last two weeks of the semester. In the wake of Charlie Kirk’s death, Texas lawmakers will meet to reexamine free speech protections at universities, including the implications of the new law, which passed last session and…

Mike Cosper: Look, his murder has really bothered me. If you’re a dad—I don’t care how you feel about Charlie Kirk—look back on the days of your life, the days of your marriage, when your kids were little. There’s something so beautiful in those years, and they not only robbed that from him; they robbed that from his kids. They robbed that from those kids’ grandparents, from his wife. I’m gutted by this regardless of how I feel about Kirk’s politics. This is gutting.  Looking at Kirk’s videos that his most ardent fans liked the most—the ones that have the…