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Film Review: ‘Sound of Freedom’6
- Entertainment
- July 12, 2023
There’s something rotten at the core of our civilization, a rottenness that has hidden like an undetected cancer under the surface of society for far too long. I speak of the systematic abuse of children on a massive scale through child sex trafficking. The film Sound of Freedom, directed by Alejandro Monteverde and starring Jim
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Architecture and Its Secret Vibes of Truth and Value 3
- Culture, Western Civilization
- July 12, 2023
I recently splurged and visited Mackinac Island with a few friends. The island, located between the upper and lower peninsula of Michigan, is perhaps best known for its automobile ban, relegating all traffic to foot, horse, or bike. Perhaps because of this ban, Mackinac Island functions as a type of time capsule, with beautiful homes,
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Don’t Forget to Sing 0
- Culture
- July 11, 2023
I have a postcard on my office door with a Samuel Beckett quote I like on it. It reads, in my sanitized English translation, “When you are in it up to your neck, the only thing left to do is sing.” Even on relatively bad days, I am very, very far from being in it
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Emotion-Based Schooling Is Not the Education Our Children Need 1
- Education
- July 11, 2023
To mark the end of the school year, Gallup enlisted students in grades 5-12 to rank their schools in a June report card. With an average grade of B-, the overall score isn’t so bad. Looking closer at the individual categories, however, tells a different story. As the chart below shows, the higher ranking categories were in
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Family Farms and Faith: Lessons From Irish Culture 2
- Culture
- July 10, 2023
I recently visited Ireland, and amidst the rugged moors covered in gorse bushes and the patchworked sheep fields divided by hedges, family farms once dotted the landscape as a cornerstone of the country. Ireland was, at one point, a country rooted in its traditions—from these farms to a strong Catholic faith. In turn, the role
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What’s a Luddite? An Expert on Technology and Society Explains 0
- Culture, Philosophy
- July 10, 2023
The term “Luddite” emerged in early 1800s England. At the time there was a thriving textile industry that depended on manual knitting frames and a skilled workforce to create cloth and garments out of cotton and wool. But as the Industrial Revolution gathered momentum, steam-powered mills threatened the livelihood of thousands of artisanal textile workers.
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Film Review: ‘Sound of Freedom’6