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Winter 2026 Is a Great Time to Read Some History 0
- Culture, Education, Featured, History, Literature, Western Civilization
- December 15, 2025
Search online for “Do American students know history?” and the answer is negative. As is the case with math and reading, the National Assessment of Education Progress’ latest assessment tests revealed that student knowledge of the American past continues declining. College students fare little better. A survey conducted 10 years ago by the American Council of Trustees
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It’s Still Possible to Resist AI Slop 0
- Culture, Education, Featured, Science, Western Civilization
- December 12, 2025
‘Tis the season for AI holiday commercials … at least, that’s what some are trying to tell us. The writing has been on the wall for a while now. … And no, there’s no going back. There’s no stopping this. Because again, creating with GenAI is a fraction of the cost of human-made content. So
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Of Christmas Parades and Commonplace Joys 0
- Culture, Family, Featured, Religion
- December 11, 2025
The first Saturday of December once again brought joy to my small hometown. This is the day when the annual Christmas parade brings several thousand locals to sidewalks in the center of town to watch, laugh, and shout with boisterous pride as floats, dancers, and marching bands wind their way through the cold streets. As
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Making the Case for Handmade Gifts 0
- Culture, Family, Featured, MomThink
- December 10, 2025
My cousin gave me a handmade card for one of my childhood birthdays. It wasn’t just any handmade card: it was made on thick, glossy paper, complete with baubles and expensive, elegant stickers. If I remember correctly, that was her only gift to me that year. But that didn’t matter: I treasured the card, often
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Do School Book Bans Infringe on Parental Authority?1
- Culture, Education, Family, Featured, MomThink
- December 9, 2025
When I hear the phrase “book ban,” the image that comes to mind is something straight out of “Fahrenheit 451” – books torn from private residences, doused in kerosene, and thrown onto a blazing funeral pyre of intellectual tradition, removing all certainty that such works ever existed. Yet when American media uses the phrase “book
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What Makes Us Happy?0
- Culture, Family, Featured, Health, MomThink, Philosophy, Religion
- December 8, 2025
Everyone wants to be happy. As Aristotle explains in “The Nicomachean Ethics,” happiness is the thing we desire for its own sake. We don’t pursue happiness as a means to some other good; it appears to be the final end people pursue in life. The other things we aim at – wealth, pleasure, relationships –
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