Larry Alex Taunton

Larry Alex Taunton is a freelance columnist and contributor to Fox News. He is the author of "The Grace Effect" and "The Faith of Christopher Hitchens: The Restless Soul of the World’s Most Notorious Atheist," the 2016 Gospel Coalition Arts & Culture Book of the Year. You can subscribe to his blog at larryalextaunton.com.

Larry Taunton: Here’s why pro-abortion supporters are so fierce (and bullying). Hint: It’s not why you think

OPINION May 20, 2019

Larry Taunton: Here’s why pro-abortion supporters are so fierce (and bullying). Hint: It’s not why you think

Is the driving passion to keep abortion legal really about a deep concern for women, or it is about something else?

Larry Taunton: Did the Greatest Generation 'fail' us?

OPINION May 18, 2019

Larry Taunton: Did the Greatest Generation 'fail' us?

Did the Greatest Generation fail us? Some historians seem to think so.

Larry Taunton: Don’t underestimate millennials -- here’s why I’m thinking of asking my son for a job

OPINION May 12, 2019

Larry Taunton: Don’t underestimate millennials -- here’s why I’m thinking of asking my son for a job

While traditional models of entrepreneurship remain in play, the rules regulating them are no longer inviolable.

Border crisis: America, here's an abbreviated history of border walls

OPINION February 10, 2019

Border crisis: America, here's an abbreviated history of border walls

Border walls have a checkered history of success and, well, a checkered history. But those who built them to keep people out generally had good reason for doing so.

The forgotten Christians of Nigeria -- faithful while enduring incredible persecution

Faith October 15, 2017

The forgotten Christians of Nigeria -- faithful while enduring incredible persecution

Nigerian Christians are remarkable. Tough, charismatic, and possessed of an irrepressible joy, no one could ever conquer a people of such spirit.

If America isn't great, who is?

Values September 25, 2017

If America isn't great, who is?

Listening to this cultural debate, it occurred to me that the vision advocated by those who would burn America to the ground presupposes there are better places in the world to live. Are there? Were Alec Baldwin to leave the country as he once promised, where would he go?

Trump is right, Newsweek. Socialism doesn't work

White House September 24, 2017

Trump is right, Newsweek. Socialism doesn't work

Trump’s speech, optimistic and pro-American as it was, falls in the mainstream of American presidential tradition. Indeed, it is the stuff of a Truman or a Reagan.

Around the world in 80 days (day 16) Okinawa: Remembering who we once were

Values September 18, 2017

Around the world in 80 days (day 16) Okinawa: Remembering who we once were

I had come to see this place, indeed, to feel the power of it, so that I might be reminded of the extraordinary sacrifice that was made for Americans like me.

Evangelicals need to stop being wimps

Christianity March 12, 2017

Evangelicals need to stop being wimps

The idea of fighting for things that matter has never been foreign to me.

Imagining Bill Belichick analyzing film of the Left's strategy

Democrats February 2, 2017

Imagining Bill Belichick analyzing film of the Left's strategy

New England Patriots head coach Bill Belichick was the man I’d been looking for. I needed keen insights, and only he could provide them.