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  • Is it Time for Conservatives to Create an Alternate Culture?

    Is it Time for Conservatives to Create an Alternate Culture?0

    The culture leans sharply left, and in our current, highly-polarized political climate that means conservatives in the arts tend to be treated as outsiders at best and pariahs at worst. Listen to the personal experiences of conservatives in Hollywood, for example, whether “above the line” (the stars, producers and directors) or below it (the rest

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  • Is It Time for a New Renaissance?

    Is It Time for a New Renaissance?0

    • September 21, 2015

    We live in an age that is committed to a form of “progress” that disavows the past. It is an age that paradoxically attempts to build upward by destroying foundations.  Recently, I came across a very brief essay that profoundly touches upon this disturbing trend. The essay is by the 19th century Russian thinker Vladimir

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  • Is it Still Important to Teach Children to Sew?

    Is it Still Important to Teach Children to Sew?1

    When I was 10 years old, the opportunity to attend a living history program one summer day left me in a tizzy of anticipation. There was only one problem. I had outgrown all of my historically accurate costumes and had nothing to wear to the event. My mom assessed the situation, pulled out her sewing

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  • Is it Still Important to Teach Children to Sew?

    Is it Still Important to Teach Children to Sew?0

    When I was 10 years old, the opportunity to attend a living history program one summer day left me in a tizzy of anticipation. There was only one problem. I had outgrown all of my historically accurate costumes and had nothing to wear to the event. My mom assessed the situation, pulled out her sewing

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  • Is It Still Important to Teach Children to Cook?

    Is It Still Important to Teach Children to Cook?0

    For those who regularly whip up a meal and eat dinner at home, cooking out of a meal kit like those from Plated or Blue Apron sounds ridiculous. But in spite of the eye-rolling these kits have induced, the New York Times reports that they’re catching on with the public: “In the span of a

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  • Is it Rational to Fear Corporations More than Governments?

    Is it Rational to Fear Corporations More than Governments?0

    I recently had a delightful discussion with a friend who is a physician—we’ll call her Kortney—about the Affordable Care Act. I’ve long been skeptical of the idea that the federal government could create an efficient and affordable consumer marketplace for healthcare, a notoriously complicated and expansive system that touches many industries. Recent developments, I said,

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