Once upon a time, very different from our time, there was a kingdom where women played basketball.

In that kingdom, skill was required to be drafted into the WNBA. Little or nothing was required to determine whether you were, in fact, a woman. Everyone seemed to know.

Women played happily, fiercely, and competitively against other women. Some were tall, some were fast, some could shoot from almost anywhere, while others played ferocious defense, blocking shots and stealing the ball with the enthusiasm of a medieval highwayman.

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We all love a little royal gossip, especially when it allows Americans to reassure themselves that rejecting monarchy was unquestionably the right decision to make. The latest rumor is that King Charles III has quietly abandoned Christianity and transformed himself from Defender of the Faith into Defender of all Faiths.

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There was a time when theft required a crowbar. Today it requires a laptop. The modern criminal does not need to kick down the front door. He simply logs onto a government website, assumes the identity of someone he has never met, or worse still someone who has already died, creates a student persona who never intends to attend class, collects thousands of dollars in federal financial aid, and disappears before the semester has even begun.

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Justices Sonia Sotomayor, Elena Kagan, and Ketanji Brown Jackson – all women – dissented on constitutional and statutory grounds. Their disagreement centered on how constitutional protections and federal law should be interpreted, not on a rejection of biology itself. Lawyers can, and undoubtedly will, debate the merits of those legal arguments for years.

Yet their votes inevitably raise a broader cultural question.

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Every four years the world gathers around a simple game. Twenty-two players. One ball. One referee. The same rules apply whether you arrive from Buenos Aires or Birmingham, Lagos or Los Angeles, Tokyo or Texas. No nation receives extra players. No country begins with a head start. Football – what my fellow Americans reluctantly call soccer – has an unusual way of reminding humanity that fairness begins with everyone agreeing to play by the same rules.

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Every June, corporations change their logos, government institutions issue proclamations, schools organize celebrations, and media outlets devote extensive coverage to Pride Month. The message is clear: this is a month set aside to celebrate one particular identity and one particular social movement.

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America tells stories about itself constantly. I love them all. Britain does too, of course, but the American story is uniquely moral in its framing. It is not merely historical; it is aspirational. Every schoolchild is handed fragments of Lincoln, echoes of Jefferson, and eventually, the towering rhetoric of Martin Luther King Jr. Whether the nation has fully embodied those ideals is another matter entirely, but the ideals themselves became part of the social catechism.

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The question of Israel cannot be understood without careful distinctions: ancient, modern, and symbolic. When those distinctions collapse, confusion fills the space, and into that confusion rush posturing politics, theocratic theology, endless economics, and frightful fear.

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Logic and reason are being ushered out of the room. What’s left is a growing fog of how beliefs and values are expressed and especially the language that is used. Once upon a time logic and reason cleared any foggy notion that came up in conversation, but we are now seemingly left to the unquestionable imbeciles that lack rational thought. These self-regulating halfwits emerge in the room replacing logic and reason like a tribe of Oompa Loompa’s from Willy Woke’s Chocolate Factory.1 And they don’t just emerge, they come with woeful virtue signaling.

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In his allegorical story called Animal Farm, George Orwell writes, “All animals are equal, but some are more equal than others.”1 The animals on a particular farm were rebelling against the concept that humans did not distribute resource, opportunity, and privilege equally. In pursuit of Comrade Napoleon’s vision of an egalitarian world – where all animals can be equal – the livestock passionately rebel against the human power structure.

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I’m going to take you from the sublime to the ridiculous in this blog, and I’m going to sincerely be an advocate for women’s rights, or more specifically, women’s rights in competitive sports.

So, let’s begin with the sublime by quoting the founder of the Olympic Games Committee from 120 years ago. “The Olympic Games were created for the solemn and periodic exaltation of male athleticism with female applause as reward.”1 French aristocrat Baron Pierre de Coubertin made this seemingly misogynous comment adding, “as no women participated in the Ancient Games, there obviously was to be no place for them in the modern ones.”2

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We use “lovely” too casually. We say it about a garden, a painting, a wedding dress. But when David writes, “How lovely is your dwelling place,” he’s not talking about aesthetics. He’s talking about loveliness that stirs the soul — beauty that heals, holiness that attracts.

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Frustration, profound frustration. We’ve all been there, perhaps you are there right now. Before depression became known as ‘depression’ in our mental state, Peter sat with his friends on the shores of Galilee thoroughly depressed. His response, “I’m going out to fish.” Nothing wrong with a good day’s work to combat depression, unless you knew better.

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I’d never seen it before, and it does not compare to God Save Our Gracious King in Britain. It was September 1999. I had been granted a visa to relocate my family from Britain to America. One month in, I was captured by baseball spectators representing both teams standing with their hand – and in many cases a baseball cap – covering their heart and singing the Star-Spangled Banner

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“A new man is arising…and yet I am sorry to lose God!”

Who said this, who is the new man, and why does it matter?

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A man once asked, “Who is this that appears like the dawn, fair as the moon, bright as the sun, majestic as the stars in procession?” His name was Solomon, the third king of Israel. Despite having 700 wives and 300 concubines, he appears to search for an alluding answer. Perhaps the first woman to walk the earth can help us in searching for an answer.

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