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Singing the Songs of the Civil War for America’s 2500
- Culture, Featured, History, Western Civilization
- June 12, 2026
Back in the late 1950s and early ‘60s, my brother and I used to play Civil War in the fields and woods surrounding our house. Several other “troopers” would show up from time to time, and we fired away at each other with toy rifles, dirt clods, and stones. When it rained, we’d break out
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Baby-Murderers Go Mask-off Before the Entire Internet1
Earlier this year, YouTuber Jesse Ridgway and his wife decided to legally kill their child due to his high chance of being born with a disability. Genetic testing, which is notoriously faulty, claimed the baby had an extra chromosome and would have Down Syndrome, an abnormality that often results in shorter lifespan, developmental issues, and
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War Is a Weather Report0
- Featured, Entertainment, History, International, Western Civilization
- June 10, 2026
For the past 80+ years, we’ve been exposed to what happened on D-Day from virtually every conceivable angle – the beaches, the boats, and, of course, the bloodshed. But we haven’t been given enough insight into the internal decisions and tensions that the Allied forces went through during WWII. “Pressure,” directed by Anthony Maras and adapted from David
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‘Euphoria’ Wraps up With a Christian-Infused Bow on Top0
- Culture, Entertainment, Featured, Religion
- June 10, 2026
This week brought the conclusion to the provocative hit HBO show, “Euphoria.” As I mentioned in an earlier article, while this show garnered more headlines for its risqué, envelope-pushing content, this final season took a surprising turn with its main character and narrator, Rue, reaping the consequences of her addiction. While postmodern storytelling seeks to avoid
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Here’s What Families Should Read for AMERICA2500
- Culture, Family, Featured, History, Literature, MomThink, Western Civilization
- June 8, 2026
Second Lady Usha Vance just announced her annual summer reading challenge for the nation’s children in grades K–8. According to Vance, the challenge is simple, requiring children to read only 12 books over the summer in order to receive several prizes and a chance to visit the White House. In a time when only a third of the
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Looking Back Makes It Easier To Look up With Hope0
- Culture, Featured, History, Western Civilization
- June 8, 2026
At a recent Sunday Mass, the priest introduced an unfamiliar word: anagoge (pronounced AN-uh-goh-gee). It’s used today to mean a spiritual or allegorical interpretation, usually of Scripture, but he used anagoge in its original Greek sense, “a leading upward.” He then encouraged us to look upward more often, even literally, to the heavens rather than
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The Freedom of Being Tied Down0
- Culture, Featured, Philosophy, Religion
- June 5, 2026
Reflecting on the loss of a loved one, C. S. Lewis wrote in a 1960 letter to Peter Bide: “One doesn’t realize in early life that the price of freedom is loneliness. To be happy one must be tied.” In a few short words, Lewis utters one of the central paradoxes of human existence, a contradiction with
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AI Is Not Morally Neutral, According to Pope Leo XIV0
- Culture, Featured, Philosophy, Religion, Western Civilization
- June 4, 2026
Pope Leo XIV released his first encyclical, or formal pastoral letter, in May, titled “Magnifica Humanitas.” In this encyclical, he tackles some of the most pressing questions regarding modern social debates, namely, the use of artificial intelligence, providing several prudent warnings for all of us, whether Catholic, Protestant, or not religious at all. AI Is
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When It Comes To Manners and Civility, Don’t Be a ‘Goop’0
While recently visiting my daughter’s house to celebrate the high school graduation of my twin granddaughters, I mentioned Gelett Burgess’ collection of poems for children, “Goops and How to Be Them.” Instantly the two graduates, a couple of their siblings, and my daughter chanted in unison that book’s first poem, “Table Manners.” The Goops they
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