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“Failure is one of God’s educators,” writes William George Jordan in his 1898 book, “The Majesty of Calmness.” I agree, but with this exception: You actually must sit in that classroom, eyes and ears open, notebook at the ready. Too often politicians and many other Americans are asleep or cutting class during that lesson. Which
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First, a note on my invented word: craxy. Like crayons in a box, some words in English exhibit a variety of shades and colors. Crazy is one of these, attracting synonyms like butterflies to milkweed. Call someone crazy, and we run the gamut from foolish to eccentric to fanatical, and end with psychotic. Consequently, context
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Dear Gen Z Female Teens, I’m just two chapters into my advance review copy of Freya India’s forthcoming book, “Girls®: Generation Z and the Commodification of Everything,” and am already so saddened by what I’ve discovered that I decided to write you. Before sharing what I’ve learned from “Girls®,” you should know that my five
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Have you ever noticed the connection which seems to exist between the radical left and radical Islam? Sirvan Karimi studied this question in a 2025 article, noting that the partnership between these two groups “has trivialized the left’s anti-oppression commitment.” He also notes that the shared hatred of Western civilization may be the magnet between the
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