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Is Halloween a Christian Holiday?0
- Culture
- October 30, 2017
Conventional wisdom holds that Halloween is essentially a secular and pagan holiday, the result of the Christian Church appropriating an ancient Celtic harvest festival. But one strain of critical opinion tends to the view that the holiday was thoroughly Christian from the start. In the church calendar, Halloween (All Hallows’ Eve) is the beginning of
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Why ‘Black and Orange Spirit Day’ is Now a Thing 0
- October 30, 2017
A Massachusetts elementary school recently made national headlines after canceling its annual Halloween costume parade and announcing it would henceforth observe “Black and Orange Spirit Day.” “[T]he costume parade is out of our ordinary routine and can be difficult for many students,” Brendan Dearborn, principal at Boyden Elementary School principal, wrote to parents. “Also, the
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The 5 Things Men and Women Should Look for in a Mate 0
- Culture
- October 27, 2017
It’s no secret that marriage rates are declining. Recent data from Pew shows that between 1960 and 2016, marriage rates for those 18 and older fell from 72 percent to 50 percent. There are many theories on why this is. The rise of cohabitation and the fear of divorce. The increase in education attainment. The
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Obama Justice Department’s $1 Billion ‘Slush Fund’ Boosted Liberal Groups 0
- Politics
- October 27, 2017
President Barack Obama’s Justice Department created a “slush fund” of nearly $1 billion using legal settlements with banks and steered those funds to political allies on the left while excluding conservative groups, internal documents show. Tony West, an associate attorney general during the Obama administration who is now a top official at PepsiCo Inc., figures
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5 Things Marx Wanted to Abolish (Besides Private Property)0
- Family
- October 27, 2017
One of the remarkable things about The Communist Manifesto is its honesty. Karl Marx might not have been a very good guy, but he was refreshingly candid about the aims of Communism. This brazenness, one could argue, is baked into the Communist psyche. “The Communists disdain to conceal their views and aims,” Marx declared in
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Escape the Moral Matrix with the Red Pill of Intellectual Diversity 0
- Education
- October 27, 2017
Back in 2012, before the ascendance of Donald Trump to the U.S. presidency and before neologisms such as “trigger warnings,” “microaggressions, and “safe spaces” became part of regular college campus discourse, New York University social psychologist Jonathan Haidt published a groundbreaking book titled The Righteous Mind: Why Good People Are Divided by Politics and Religion.
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Is Halloween a Christian Holiday?0