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A Proposal to Kill Irony 0
- Culture, Featured, Western Civilization
- March 26, 2026
In the literary world, postmodernism was a movement defined by cynicism, absurdism, satire, and irony. At some point, it stopped being a tool with which to diagnose the culture and became the personality of our culture. It crept into our conversations, our art, our politics, and eventually into the way we talk to those we
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Raising the Birthrate First Means Reviving Romance 0
- Culture, Family, Featured, MomThink, Western Civilization
- March 26, 2026
“Failure is one of God’s educators,” writes William George Jordan in his 1898 book, “The Majesty of Calmness.” I agree, but with this exception: You actually must sit in that classroom, eyes and ears open, notebook at the ready. Too often politicians and many other Americans are asleep or cutting class during that lesson. Which
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A 3,000-Year-Old Answer to Feminism’s Discontents 0
- Culture, Family, Featured, MomThink, Politics, Western Civilization
- March 25, 2026
The much-anticipated release of the newest season of “The Bachelorette,” starring influencer Taylor Frankie Paul, was recently canceled. The reason was a leaked video showing Paul putting her ex-boyfriend, Dakota Mortensen, into a headlock during a domestic fight and throwing a metal chair at him that hit her daughter instead. The entire altercation was not
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Reasons for Optimism From a Gen Z Conservative 0
- Culture, Featured, MomThink, Politics, Western Civilization
- March 25, 2026
I’m Gen Z, a recent college graduate, and a newly engaged woman. I have a lot of life ahead of me, and hopefully, a lot to which I can look forward. But it seems that everywhere I turn I’m met with such slogans such as: “The West is in decline”; “Millennials and Gen Z are
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Does the Existence of Evil Also Prove That God Exists?0
- Culture, Featured, Philosophy, Religion
- March 25, 2026
When we think of evil, the first image that comes to mind is usually not the concept of evil, but an evil thing. This gives insight into what evil is in its essence: something that robs innate goodness from something else. The word for this is called “privation,” the classical philosophical understanding of evil. Evil
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Craxies and the Limits of Toleration 0
- Culture, Featured, Politics
- March 25, 2026
First, a note on my invented word: craxy. Like crayons in a box, some words in English exhibit a variety of shades and colors. Crazy is one of these, attracting synonyms like butterflies to milkweed. Call someone crazy, and we run the gamut from foolish to eccentric to fanatical, and end with psychotic. Consequently, context
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