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What Netflix's Hit Show 'Adolescence' Gets Wrong About Toxic Masculinity
- Culture, Entertainment, Family, Featured, Uncategorized, Western Civilization
- April 25, 2025
A recent study published in American Political Science Review, a quarterly peer-reviewed academic journal published by Cambridge University, begins with a teasing question: “Is authoritarian power ever legitimate?” For many, the answer is clearly no, concedes the study’s author—Ross Mittiga, an assistant professor of political theory at the Pontifical Catholic University of Chile. But Mittiga,
READ MOREIn elementary school, students are taught various types of figurative language—idioms, metaphors, and hyperboles. Most students quickly learn that words must be taken in context to properly understand their intended meaning. We also learn that many words and phrases have more than one meaning. “Stand up and be counted.” Is a person in a
READ MOREDocumentary filmmaker Jennifer Sharp got the Pfizer COVID vaccine in March 2021. Driving home from getting the shot, she couldn’t focus. While sleeping that night, she drenched the bed with sweat. She awoke the next morning and couldn’t feel the left side of her face. Her symptoms lasted unabated for weeks, so she chose not
READ MOREWilliam Howard Taft was “multi-chinned” and weighted about three-hundred pounds. In 1908 he was elected as the 27th president of the United States. But according to scholar Neil Postman, he would never even make a presidential ticket today due to the nature of television. In his classic Amusing Ourselves to Death Postman writes: “The
READ MOREHollywood’s first treatment of the pioneering paleontologist Mary Anning invented an entirely fictious lesbian love story, taking the focus away from her compelling narrative as a self-taught genius forced to operate on the outskirts of British geology due to her gender. As a result, Ammonite may be the least feminist movie that comes out this year. Known
READ MOREBy now, most readers are aware of the ongoing exodus from blue states to red states, from places like California and New York to the Carolinas, Texas, and Florida. Some of these migrants are retirees in search of warmer weather. Some are millennials in U-Haul vans looking to lower the cost of living or in
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