Blog 3 Columns

Why Does Middle America Vote for Trump?0
- Culture
- January 31, 2020
Many mainstream journalists have wondered how social conservatives could bring themselves to support a crass, twice-divorced politician as president. If they would bother covering events like last week’s March for Life, which they rarely do, they might find some enlightenment. For the last 46 years around this time, thousands of people gather at the National
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Truth Is Being Replaced in American Colleges 0
- Culture
- January 31, 2020
In the U.K. college typically lasts just three years. Students apply directly to a discipline – Psychology or Biology – supposedly having received their general education in high school. This process worked in the past, when only a tiny fraction of the eighteen-year-old population went on to college. The American higher education experience has always
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Ninety-Three Vermont Towns Have No Public Schools, But Great Education. How Do They Do It?0
- January 31, 2020
In just a couple of weeks, 50 boys with learning disabilities will take to a stage in Vermont, one after the other, to recite the Gettysburg Address from memory. It’s a daring experiment undertaken each February at the Greenwood School and its population of boys who’ve struggled in public schools. Diagnosed with ADD, dyslexia, and
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Celebrating the New Masculinity of Millennial Dads 0
- Culture
- January 31, 2020
Go to any family-friendly place and you’ll see them. They are men in their late 20s to early 40s, pushing strollers, wearing backpacks full of baby supplies, and sometimes sporting baby carriers with infants tucked inside. Many of them have beards, wear baseball caps, and proudly flaunt their dad bods. They call their kids “buddy”
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A Very British Goodbye 0
- International
- January 31, 2020
Perhaps the penny has dropped. All 50 of them. In just a handful of hours, Great Britain leaves the European Union. Plagues of locusts, pestilence, and lepers wait patiently in the wings. From where I’m sitting, though, all looks rosy. No marauding gangs of mottled malcontents seething in the streets. A distinct lack of killer
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Three Things I Have Learned From Living in Brazil 0
- Culture
- January 30, 2020
I live in Brazil. What image does that conjure up in your mind? Perhaps you think of pristine white beaches and coconut trees. Maybe your first thought is of the amazing soccer talent in this country. Maybe you are imagining a country populated by ridiculously good looking, surgically enhanced people. There’s a kernel of truth
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The Catholic Church and Illegal Immigration 5
- International
- January 30, 2020
At the age of 40, I converted to Catholicism. A friend of mine at the time, also Catholic, told me her rule when entering the confessional booth: “Be brief, be blunt, and be gone.” I’ll be following that advice about brevity and bluntness in this column. Most readers know of the sexual scandals of some
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Poverty Stats Greatly Overstate How Many Americans Are Destitute 0
- Economics
- January 30, 2020
While pressing her agenda to expand means-tested welfare programs, Democratic Congresswoman Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez is claiming that the federal government’s poverty statistics vastly undercount the number of Americans who are “destitute.” In reality, the exact opposite is true because those statistics omit a broad range of government benefits, charity, and unreported income. When these are counted, the poorest fifth of U.S. households consume five
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Modern Feminism’s Hated Enemy: Womanhood 0
- January 30, 2020
Women across the West are under attack. Our enemy is not the infamous “patriarchy,” allegedly scheming to undermine us at every turn. Nor is it pregnancy, with its physical discomforts and emotional tribulations. Even children are blameless here, no matter how much their arrival can shift careers or thwart travel plans. No, the culprit is
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Why Does Middle America Vote for Trump?0