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Public Spaces in Decline: A Metric of Societal Health 1
- Culture
- September 28, 2023
Former Trump official William Wolfe recently lamented the neglect steadily encroaching his local grocery store. “Let me tell you: I’ve never seen stores in such bad shape as they are now,” he wrote. “No one staffing the main check out lines, massive line for the self check outs, stores messy, items unstocked. … It’s like
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Did Lockdowns Finish Off Public Schooling?2
- Family, Education
- September 28, 2023
We moved to a good school district. The area was growing. Built for families like ours, all of the public schools in the area received “A” or “8/10” ratings. There were two very expensive and very fancy private schools in the area. It was an idyllic place to raise children. In retrospect, we had a
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What Is a Home?1
- Philosophy
- September 27, 2023
The ultimate adventure story is about the journey home. Consider, for example, Odysseus at sea, Aeneas in search of a haven for the Trojans, the Israelites in the desert. Such stories strike a note on the strings of our souls that vibrates through us like a call. A homeland beckons. In the archetypal hero’s journey,
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Countering Propaganda One Read-Aloud at a Time 2
- Economics, Literature
- September 27, 2023
Between gender wars, deviant sexual education, declining academic achievement, and plain old safety issues, today’s schools have turned into landmines for parents and students. But while parents are increasingly seeing the problems their children are facing in school, it’s also hard to know how best to deal with them. Parents can take their children out
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‘We’re experts in hindsight’: Newsom Pleads Ignorance on COVID-19 Overreach 0
- Politics, Science
- September 26, 2023
Three-and-a-half years after the dawn of his iron-fisted pandemic rule, California Governor Gavin Newsom has claimed he “would’ve done everything differently” with the benefit of hindsight. As reported by Politico, Newsom made the admission during a taped interview with Meet the Press. “I think all of us in terms of our collective wisdom, we’ve evolved.
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How Not To Be a Barbarian 3
- Culture
- September 26, 2023
The Barbarian hopes—and that is the very mark of him—that he can have his cake and eat it too. He will consume what civilization has slowly produced after generations of selection and effort, but he will not be at the pains to replace such goods, nor indeed has he a comprehension of the virtue that
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Public Spaces in Decline: A Metric of Societal Health 1