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  • A Cure for Our Narcissistic Culture

    A Cure for Our Narcissistic Culture13

    America is in the thrall of a new addiction. The old standbys, alcohol and drugs, continue to destroy individuals, families, and friendships. The COVID lockdowns made things even worse, with men and women turning to booze and pills for solace against loneliness and lost jobs. Meanwhile, the flood of fentanyl across our southern border is

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  • A Culturally Literate Person Knows the Bible

    A Culturally Literate Person Knows the Bible2

    While visiting friends this summer, I had the opportunity to spend some time at the Biltmore Estate in North Carolina. As the largest home in the United States, Biltmore is a time capsule of valuable treasures spanning everything from Napoleon’s chess set to tapestries from sixteenth-century Belgium. It was while viewing one of these tapestries

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  • A Critical Look at Treating Gender Dysphoria

    A Critical Look at Treating Gender Dysphoria0

    Extreme medical treatment for children with gender dysphoria is not just a problem in the English-speaking world. In Sweden, too, there has been an explosion of gender dysphoria. In 2003 only about ten children were diagnosed; in 2018, there were 500. One of Sweden’s leading experts in child and adolescent psychiatry, Professor Christopher Gillberg, has

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  • A Crisis of Parenting Is the Root Cause of America’s Rapid Secularization

    A Crisis of Parenting Is the Root Cause of America’s Rapid Secularization0

    Not long ago, I asked a young tradesman to quote on a job. We’ll call him Bruno. We began talking and I mentioned that I was a Catholic. “Religion,” he said, “that’s a good thing.” I asked what his was and he told me that he was a Muslim. “But,” Bruno added. “I wasn’t always

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  • A Counterpunch to the Assault on Manliness

    A Counterpunch to the Assault on Manliness9

    On a mid-October visit with my daughter and her family, my son-in-law began recounting stories from a former construction job. He spoke of end-of-day contests—monkey-bar style races, for example, in which construction workers would race across the trusses of a building using hammers instead of the hands, which lasted until one guy slipped and concussed

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  • A Convincing Case for Saying ‘Y’all’?

    A Convincing Case for Saying ‘Y’all’?0

    Grammarians and lovers of the English language will either be intrigued or horrified by a recent piece for The Atlantic. In it, writer Vann R. Newkirk II makes the case that “y’all” NEEDS to be adopted into common usage beyond the American south. Newkirk points out that there are “no distinct second-person plural pronouns in

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