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What the Teleprompter Tells Us About Truth, Trump and Speech 0
- Entertainment
- February 3, 2017
We watch them giving speeches. Their delivery is enthusiastic, fiery, full of pathos. They pause at length, as if to think. They continue talking. They are applauded for their eloquence and their sincerity. Yet, on either side of their podium, we spy a set of transparent boards, on which a text is screened for the
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Is Today’s Chaos Actually the Fruit of ‘Equality’?0
- Culture
- February 3, 2017
‘Tis the season when every big organization and company in town rolls out the main message it wants to convey to Americans on Super Bowl Sunday. This year is no exception, particularly for the Audi car company. According to reports, the Audi commercial of a father and his car-racing daughter sends a strong message of
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Everything’s Political—Even Your Food Choices 0
- Culture
- February 2, 2017
Last month, National Geographic declared, with the help of an exploitive picture of a pink-clad transgender child, that America is in the midst of a gender revolution. Everything, it seems, is now being looked at through the lens of gender, including our choices about what to eat. According to a recent article in the Washington
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Raising Honest Kids in a Post-Truth World 0
- Culture
- February 2, 2017
All kids have a sometimes-fluid relationship with the truth. I have often wished that I had the skills of an FBI profiler, especially when faced with the smiling cherubs in front of me who certainly look like they have been up to something, even as they insist they have not. Kids can lie like an
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Why This City Is America’s Murder Capital 0
- Culture
- February 2, 2017
Sean Kennedy at RealClear Investigations wrote an interesting short feature breaking down crime in America. There are a couple good nuggets in the piece. First, can you guess the city with the highest murder rate in the U.S.? I suspect most people couldn’t—even if they were given five guesses. (I know I wouldn’t have.) Via
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The Religious Origins of Groundhog Day 0
- History
- February 2, 2017
Americans know today, February 2, as Groundhog Day, when Punxsutawney Phil is brought out of his tree-trunk in Northwestern Pennsylvania to determine how much longer winter will last. For Christians, it’s also the Feast of Candlemas. Most people assume that Groundhog Day and Candlemas are not connected, but in fact—as I recently discovered—they are! The
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