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  • Making Space for Silence

    Making Space for Silence4

    In our lives of technology, distraction, and immediacy, silence is often lost. Our minds and bodies need some quiet time, some space to rest. Without this, we become burned-out, stressed, and exhausted. But our lives are busy, and we have responsibilities, jobs, and families. How do we daily make room for silence? Here are some

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  • Public Spaces in Decline: A Metric of Societal Health

    Public Spaces in Decline: A Metric of Societal Health2

    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?

    Did Lockdowns Finish Off Public Schooling?2

    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?

    What Is a Home?1

    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

    Countering Propaganda One Read-Aloud at a Time2

    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

    ‘We’re experts in hindsight’: Newsom Pleads Ignorance on COVID-19 Overreach0

    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

    How Not To Be a Barbarian3

    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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  • Incoming College Students Unable To Do Basic Math After Pandemic

    Incoming College Students Unable To Do Basic Math After Pandemic1

    Incoming students are often unable to do basic math at colleges across America. Many of them failed to learn the basics during COVID-19 lockdowns or even forgot some of what they previously learned. Math professors say freshmen cannot do basic things such as subtracting a positive number from a negative number or adding two fractions,

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  • Is Covidocracy Making a Comeback?

    Is Covidocracy Making a Comeback?0

    On September 6, the White House announced that twice-vaccinated, twice-boosted Jill Biden has COVID-19—for a second time. President Joe Biden tested negative but will begin masking again, the administration also confirmed. A day later, co-host of The View Whoopi Goldberg was missing from the show, having also come down with the virus. Coinciding with these

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