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Feminists Learn the Wrong Lesson From Taylor Swift’s Engagement24
- Culture, Entertainment, Family, Featured, Uncategorized
- September 2, 2025
Taylor Swift is engaged to Kansas City Chiefs tight end Travis Kelce, and the internet is chock full of hot takes on her relationship, her upcoming marriage, and the takeaways from both. Keyboard warriors are busy making sense of it all – “Kelce is making a huge mistake,” “Swift is a trad wife now,” “the
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Overwork Is Making Us ‘Time Poor’29
- Culture, Economics, Featured, Politics, Uncategorized, Western Civilization
- September 1, 2025
Something has gone wrong with the way we work. A recent survey by Wondr Health found that most American workers suffer from “time poverty.” Psychologist Mark Travers defines “time poverty” as “experiencing a lack of sufficient time to fulfill responsibilities, pursue interests or engage in activities that contribute to one’s well-being due to various demands on [one’s] time.”
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We Should Mourn, Not Laugh, at Broken Marriages35
- Culture, Entertainment, Family, Featured, Uncategorized
- August 29, 2025
Hollywood has long been in the business of minimizing marriage. Every sitcom I’ve ever seen must, it seems, regularly joke about how marriage is a prison, a trap, a why-did-we-ever-get-married bad idea. So it is in “The Roses,” a new release starring Benedict Cumberbatch and Olivia Colman. In “The Roses,” we are thrust immediately into a
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Oikophiles – the Political Party We All Need28
- Culture, Featured, Politics, Uncategorized
- August 28, 2025
Are you an oikophile or an oikophobe? Conservative philosopher Roger Scruton (1944-2020) coined these two words from the Greek oikos, meaning household, home, or place. But Scruton broadened this meaning to include culture. Accordingly, oikophiles are those who love their homes and the culture passed down through generations. Oikophobes may love their private homes, but disdain, or even
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Cracker Barrel Rebrand Fiasco a Symptom of a Non-innovative Nation20
- Culture, Featured, Uncategorized
- August 27, 2025
Just as Generation Z is scraping the “millennial grey” paint off the natural wood in their homes, Cracker Barrel gave itself the sad beige makeover nobody asked for. Nearly every McDonald’s has received this makeover in the last decade. While style and decor changes across generations are normal, the leap from what the kids of
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Rekindling Romance in a Politically Correct Age18
- Culture, Family, Featured, Uncategorized
- August 26, 2025
On a midsummer’s morning, a close friend and I met for coffee. Anne is married, retired, and the mother of four and grandmother of several. Although we talk often by phone, nearly two years had passed since we’d last seen each other, and we’d both, well, softened with age. For a while, we sipped our
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Barrel Logos and Buttermilk25
- Culture, Economics, Featured, History, Uncategorized
- August 25, 2025
Somewhere, in a conference room adorned with reclaimed barnwood paneling ordered in bulk from a supplier in Shanghai, a well-compensated executive must have declared: For the sake of relevance, we must redesign the Cracker Barrel logo. On and on this executive rambles about “modernity,” “Gen Z, “TikTok,” or whatever corporate buzzword is in fashion now.
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The Kennedy-Hegseth Fitness Challenge Is the Answer to the Body Positivity Movement41
- Featured, Health, Politics, Uncategorized, Western Civilization
- August 22, 2025
U.S. Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. is teaming up with U.S. Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth to start what they’re calling the “Pete and Bobby Challenge.” Anyone who accepts the challenge must complete 50 pull-ups and 100 push-ups in under five minutes. Whether or not the challenge really gains steam and “makes America
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Mike Rowe and the Need to Bring Back Shop Class51
- Culture, Economics, Education, Featured, Uncategorized
- August 21, 2025
A few years ago, I interviewed a married couple for an article, who, although only in their mid-20s, already owned a thriving business. This couple had met in a high school welding class – a fact which prompted the husband to joke that “sparks flew.” Humor aside, I was intrigued to hear that a welding class
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