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Why the 'Rite of Passage' Needs to Make a Comeback
- Culture, Family, Featured, MomThink, Philosophy, Religion, Western Civilization
- December 1, 2025

Many years ago, my elementary school teachers taught that a pronoun must match its antecedent – the noun to which it refers – in number, gender, and person. In “John read that rule from his book,” the pronoun “his” is singular, masculine, and third-person. That’s straight-up grammar. Yet every week I read online writers who
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Imagine two 20-something strangers, Joe and Mike, standing elbow to elbow at the open bar of a large wedding reception. The bartender refreshes their drinks, they happen to turn at the same time to face the crowded hall, and Joe points to a woman in a red dress on the dance floor. “Man, look at
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Before becoming the U.S. Secretary of War, Pete Hegseth wrote half-a-dozen books. The only one that didn’t deal with military affairs and American warriors was his 2023 “Battle for the American Mind,” in which Hegseth and co-writer David Goodwin addressed the failures of American education. It discussed the century-long progressive movement that nearly buried classical
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In “The Soul of Civility,” Alexandra Hudson makes a sharp distinction between civility and politeness. Politeness and manners are the form, the technique, of an act, but civility is more. … Instead of focusing on the form alone, civility gets to the motivation of an act. Civility is a disposition that recognizes and respects the common humanity, the fundamental personhood, and
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