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Easy Swaps for the Aspiring Ancestral Kitchen0
Many traditionalists greatly value real food and proper nutrition. We understand how our bodies do not prosper on fast food, modern additives, and trendy diets. Many of us are working to get back to a more ancestral kitchen to offer real nourishment and sustenance. Unfortunately, few of us have the resources to actually live like
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Why the Best Gift for Your Child Is a Brother or Sister3
Original thinkers are hard to come by. If you doubt that, visit a diploma mill. You’ll see right off that credentials don’t confer character, creativity or common sense. Academic hubris conflates knowledge with wisdom. Such folks are a dime a dozen. Sui generis Then there is Colin Brazier: sui generis, in a class by himself. Original
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When Inequality Is Fatal for Men1
- Culture
- November 27, 2023
Equality has always been an American preoccupation, right from the words “all men are created equal” in the Declaration of Independence. Yet even that phrase is not egalitarian enough by today’s lights; feminists have long objected to the gendered language of “all men.” Thomas Jefferson didn’t mean to commit a microaggression; in 1776, “all men”
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A Case for Ancient Books: Recovering True Happiness2
- Literature, Featured
- November 27, 2023
Something important is missing from contemporary fiction and non-fiction. Specifically, I think the majority of books today lack a sense of universality—ideas and perspectives that extend beyond the bounds of the society and culture in which they were written. Certainly, it is essential to read works that reflect our own society and culture, but isn’t
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Is Woke Disney Dying?7
- Culture, Entertainment
- November 22, 2023
Lightyear? A flop. Strange World? A flop. The Little Mermaid? A flop. Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania? A flop. The Marvels? A flop. Snow White? Postponed, probably for fear of a flop. All told, Disney has lost nearly $1 billion at the box office due to films like these bombing, according to box office analyst
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George Washington’s Thanksgiving Message: What A Different Era8
- From the Editorial Board, History
- November 22, 2023
Thanksgiving is a quintessential American holiday. It is a holiday that in many ways requires some sense of the supernatural – whether we care to acknowledge it or not. Below you will find our first President’s proclamation of Thanksgiving in which his sense of the hand of Providence upon the American Republic is quite clear. Indeed,
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An Attitude of Gratitude and Gratitude with Attitude: Thanksgiving 20231
- Culture, Western Civilization
- November 21, 2023
An idea sent me to my calculator. The United States is 247 years old. I am 72 years old. Simple division revealed that I have lived in this country for 29.2 percent of its history as a nation. Good grief! Hand me a cane and call me Methuselah! Another three years, if I am so
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How Can We Stop Serving Students So Poorly?1
In 1942, there were 108,579 public school districts in the United States. By the 2020-21 school year, there were only 13,187. That massive consolidation of school districts was propelled by the belief that economies of scale created by larger school districts would lower costs and serve students better. Those presumed efficiencies have not, however, been demonstrated in practice.
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The Cult of Safety Explodes3
- Culture
- November 20, 2023
It was the 1970s. Dry cleaning bags lurked quietly behind couches waiting patiently for the opportunity to pounce on the hapless child who dropped a Lego nearby. Unguarded five-gallon buckets stood brazenly in the middle of basement floors hoping to entice their next drowning victim. Discarded refrigerators prowled the land looking for unsuspecting eight-year-olds to
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