Blog 3 Columns

The West Is Suffering from ‘Metaphysical Boredom’0
- Culture
- August 3, 2017
There are growing fears about the future of Western Civilization. It’s becoming clearer to the American and European public that most of its schools, churches, and media outlets do not care a lick for preserving the intellectual treasures and moral principles of their culture’s past, and are even inculcating a disdain for all things Western.
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Millennial Dog Moms Now Refusing to Vaccinate 0
- Culture
- August 3, 2017
Every now and then, I come across an article that causes me to have a “Wait, is this satire?” moment. Those moments have always ended with a laugh and the realization that yes, said article is indeed a joke. Until today, that is. The article that caught my attention was produced by Slate and entitled
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Louis Armstrong Lived the American Dream—And Never Apologized For It 0
- Culture
- August 3, 2017
Jazz musician Louis Armstrong claimed he was born on the Fourth of July. Although subsequent research has shown that he was actually born on August 4, Armstrong is no less an American icon, a performer who reconciled people through the joy of his music. What is not so widely known is that this great entertainer
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6 Brilliant Authors Who Died Penniless 0
- Culture
- August 3, 2017
The many authors we hail today as cultural and literary geniuses are often assumed to have been recognized as such during their lifetimes, living successful – at least financially successful – lives. However, that assumption is often not the case. The five authors below were not as popular during their lives as they are now
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Why Kids Today Show Adults So Little Respect 1
- Culture
- August 2, 2017
In a recent article for The Washington Post, author Meredith Hale shares some rather humiliating experiences she recently endured at the hands of her daughter’s 8-year-old friends. The first was being ordered to eat an old, crusty fragment of bagel picked up from the floor. The second was being intentionally slapped in the rear. Hale
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Why it Was Moral for Trotsky to Kill the Tsar’s Children—But Immoral for Stalin to Kill His 0
- Economics
- August 2, 2017
Few today would disagree that we live in a morally confused age. Most of us have a sense of right and wrong. But if pressed to explain why we believe what we do, I suspect you’d encounter a great many blanks stares and incoherent responses. Much of this is attributable to the rise of emotivism,
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What’s Next for Venezuela?0
- August 2, 2017
Yesterday’s fraudulent and illegitimate vote to install a constituent assembly in Venezuela is the definitive step towards consolidating a de jure dictatorship in that country. The constituent assembly will enjoy supra-constitutional powers, which means that its prerogatives go beyond writing a new constitution and include, inter alia, dissolving and removing all existing institutions—including those controlled by the opposition or held
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The Moral Imagination of Disney’s ‘Beauty and the Beast’0
- Culture
- August 2, 2017
Several nights ago, I reluctantly watched Disney’s 2017 live version of Beauty and the Beast. I must admit three things before I get into the heart of this essay. First, I’ve never been anti-Disney. I know many conservatives think Disney is the end of civilization, but I’ve never seen it that way. Like comic-book superheroes, Disney,
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How Government Regulation Caused the Financial Crisis 0
- Economics
- August 2, 2017
Note: Last week I asked why conservative Christian outlets are increasingly promoting socialist ideas and policies. My friend Jake Meador weighed in to help provide some perspective on this trend. Jake himself is the editor of an online Christian magazine—Mere Orthodoxy—that would be described as traditionalist conservative. While he is not a socialist, he admits he
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The West Is Suffering from ‘Metaphysical Boredom’0