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Cat Parker, V*ccine Survivor 13
- Culture, Politics, Science
- September 1, 2022
Cat Parker had to be her own health advocate before she could advocate for other people. Like others who’ve had an adverse reaction to the COVID-19 vaccine, she followed her gut and didn’t just push her symptoms under the generic rug of menopause like some of her doctors suggested. Cat, 50, of Plymouth, Minnesota, is
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A Powerful Animated Guide About Where Not to Seek for Happiness 3
- Culture, Philosophy, Religion, Western Civilization
- September 1, 2022
Earlier this year, nearly one-quarter of all Yale undergraduates enrolled in a course on how to be happy. “A lot of us are anxious, stressed, unhappy, numb,” a freshman taking the course told the New York Times. “The fact that a class like this has such large interest speaks to how tired students are of numbing
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Hey COVID, I’ve Got Religion 4
- Religion, International, Science
- August 31, 2022
For better or worse, my brain is wired to doubt. Even when I’m feeling all gooey and spiritual and thinking that maybe there’s a prime mover in charge of things, my skeptical synapses swoop in and spoil the fun, insisting my thoughts are just a trick of human biology. But the pandemic—or rather, the pandemic response—has
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Is Boredom Driving Our Culture of Lunacy?10
- Culture, Politics, Religion, Western Civilization
- August 31, 2022
“Somebody’s boring me,” poet Dylan Thomas once commented. “I think it’s me,” he added. Were you to become a fly on the wall, or in this age of electronic wonders, a tiny drone, you might observe my daily life and decide that I’m the most boring human on planet earth. I follow the same daily
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Want to Change Hearts and Minds? Try Humility.8
- Culture, History, Philosophy, Religion, Western Civilization
- August 30, 2022
A friend recently sent me a popular meme called the Pyramid of Intellect. It shows the various academic degrees, starting at the base of the pyramid with a high school diploma and narrows its way up to a Ph.D. But at the very top of the pyramid is a little section that reads, “People who
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How the Federal Government Created the Student Loan Crisis 1
- Education, Politics
- August 30, 2022
On Wednesday, President Joe Biden unveiled a sweeping plan to let delinquent student loan borrowers transfer tens of thousands of dollars in debt to taxpayers. If he were a biblically minded leader, Biden would have used his nationally televised press conference to repent of his role in creating the student loan crisis in the first
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