At my bridal shower several summers ago, I was presented with a book of hand-written recipes cobbled together from the women I knew, and even those I didn’t, as several of my great-grandmother’s recipes made an appearance in the book, thanks to my aunt. That recipe book has been one of the greatest of my
READ MOREIt’s commonly observed that political vitriol is stronger than ever before in recent memory. The left thinks the right is a bunch of Nazis ready to Sieg Heil to Trump whenever possible, while the right thinks the left is a bunch of tone-deaf, cross-dressing terrorists, ready to riot on cue. The great rift is growing
READ MORE“Freakier Friday” feels like old Disney. In an age where Disney’s live action arm focuses on big budget Marvel and Star Wars films, as well as remakes of animated classics, “Freakier Friday” is a callback to the days when the studio developed heartfelt, family friendly comedies with moderate budgets. From 1961’s original “Parent Trap” through “George
READ MOREThree years ago, Ben Strong and others founded St. Andrew’s Academy in Verona, Ky. It’s a Catholic boarding school and farm for high school boys which “aims to cultivate a genuine and masculine love for the true, good, and beautiful in the hearts of her students.” Students who attend St. Andrews receive a classical education, reading and
READ MOREOnce upon a time, in the flourishing cultural centers of medieval Paris, Oxford, and Bologna, an institution emerged dedicated to the pursuit of truth: the university. This institution evolved from schools called studia generalia, which were attempts to educate monks and clerks beyond what they had received at cathedral or monastic schools. The universities were self-governing, often
READ MORELaugh if you want, but I enjoy the Netflix series Cobra Kai. While I rooted for Daniel in the original ’80s movie, my favorite character is now Daniel’s rival Johnny Lawrence. My kids saw enough similarities between Johnny and me to buy an Eagle Fang Karate shirt for my birthday. I assume it’s because we share
READ MOREFor many on the right, the enemy of their enemy is their friend. A recent example of this is the now-infamous Sydney Sweeney jeans ad. Last week, left-wing “experts” made a serious attempt to smear the jeans brand American Eagle as fascist for daring to feature blonde bombshell Sydney Sweeney. The advertisement features Sweeney making cheeky
READ MOREI’ve had a nagging feeling in recent months that I’m a bit of a dinosaur in a certain area of fashion. The reason? I still wear a wristwatch. By wristwatch, I don’t mean a minicomputer screen strapped above my hand from which I get texts and monitor my heartbeat and blood pressure (or whatever else
READ MORECan it be true? Can a blue jeans advertisement perform like a magician’s top hat, producing irony, racism, sex appeal, body positivity, Nazism, and eugenics all at the same time? Apparently so. Recently, American Eagle jeans featured actress Sydney Sweeney in an ad that caused some heads to explode among our ever vigilant supervisors of
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