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What Unites Americans in 2024 0
- Culture, Featured
- February 13, 2024
There’s plenty of division to go around in 2024. But a new Pew Research report on how Americans view major institutions offers some insights into where Americans agree—and where the biggest divides are. Titled “From Businesses and Banks to Colleges and Churches: Americans’ Views of U.S. Institutions,” the report summarized the views of over 5,000
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The Meaning of Ash Wednesday 0
- Culture, Religion
- February 12, 2024
Ash Wednesday is—oddly perhaps—a day I have long associated with bushfires, better known in the American hemisphere as wildfires. I come from the Adelaide Hills in South Australia, where on Ash Wednesday in 1983, catastrophic bushfires, driven by 70-mph winds and fueled by years of drought-ravaged eucalyptus forest, tragically claimed 28 lives. In the neighboring
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Letters of Love: A Special Gift for Valentine’s Day 1
- Culture, Featured
- February 12, 2024
I received my first Valentine’s Day card just two weeks before my second birthday. My mother kept a scrapbook account of my childhood and youth. Today, the pages fall apart at a finger’s touch, but my birth certificate, school report cards, memoranda of various achievements and events, and cards sent to me in celebration of
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Will This Mrs American Beauty Queen With Eight Kids Make Big Families Normal Again?2
- Family
- February 12, 2024
In case you haven’t heard, Hannah and Daniel Neeleman are the genesis of the Instagram sensation “Ballerina Farm.” What makes Ballerina Farm so appealing that it has amassed nearly 9 million followers? Well, there’s lots to like: A Julliard ballerina marries a businessman, and they buy a gorgeous plot of land in a little mountain valley to
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Guilt-Tripping Our Way to Self-Destruction 3
- Culture, Politics
- February 9, 2024
Everywhere we turn, the country looks like it is falling apart. Crime is out of control. Millions of illegal immigrants are pouring across our borders. Our schools are more interested in cultivating gender dysphoria and a proclivity for porn in our children than in educating them. The press routinely censors the truth at the behest
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How Social Media Fuels the Transgender Social Contagion 0
- Culture, Featured
- February 9, 2024
Being a pre-teen or teen girl was hard enough 20 years ago. Now? Girls are inundated with online content drawing their attention and insecurities toward their bodies. Far from only being told they don’t have the right face shape or hair color, girls are now told their very female figure is something to reject. Online
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