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1,000 Good Books to (Slowly) Consider
- Education, Featured, History, Literature, Uncategorized, Western Civilization
- July 14, 2025
“How are we feeling today?” my teacher began. “Let’s do a quick check-in.” Typically, our check-ins involved a scale of one to five. One was the worst: It meant, the teacher explained, that we felt no motivation, had no energy, and couldn’t wait for the school year to end. Five was the best: It signaled
READ MOREFormer Chinese dictator Deng Xiaoping is little known in the West, but his ideas should be common knowledge. He developed a new political-economic model for China, one often called “authoritarian developmentalism,” that helped hundreds of millions of people escape grinding poverty. However, “Dengism” maintained the Communist Party’s firm grip on society—and Western countries are starting
READ MOREIs the American Dream still possible? As inflation continues to bloat prices, we hear this question bandied about with increasing frequency. The answer depends a lot on how we define the “American Dream.” Investopedia’s version of the dream costs some $4.4 million over a lifetime—a figure that may place it out of reach for many
READ MOREConventional 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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READ MOREThree climate activists poured Heinz soup all over van Gogh’s Sunflowers paintings at the National Gallery of London last month. The stunt came an hour after two other climate activists, Phoebe Plummer and Anna Holland, were sentenced to time in jail for throwing tomato soup on a van Gogh painting at the same gallery in
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