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- July 1, 2025
The best way to make headlines is to swim upstream against conventional wisdom. Increasingly, however, going against conventional wisdom seems to mean a return to traditional ideas. Such is the case with actress Kirsten Dunst. According to a recent interview in Net-A-Porter fashion magazine, Dunst isn’t necessarily on board with the “find-a-feminist-boyfriend” trend. Instead, Ms.
READ MOREEach year, Oxford Dictionaries selects one “Word of the Year” that “best reflect[s] the ethos, mood, and preoccupations” of a given year. Yesterday, Oxford announced that its selection for 2015 wasn’t a word; it was an emoji. More specifically, this emoji: Oxford justified its selection by pointing out that “Emojis are no longer the preserve of
READ MOREIn his Essay on the Development of Christian Doctrine, John Henry Newman famously listed 7 tests (“notes”) of a truly living and developing idea. His third test was the “Power of Assimilation,” which he described as follows: “[D]octrines and views which relate to man are not placed in a void, but in the crowded world,
READ MOREIn comparable terms, the entire population of the United States has watched DJ Snake’s and Lil Jon’s “Turn Down for What” music video on YouTube. In case you missed it, a man seems to have some sort of erectile dysfunction that causes him to hump everything in sight with such amazing power that he even
READ MOREIt’s undeniable that today’s education system has problems. Evidences of declining academics and behavior are everywhere in the schools. But coming face to face with this reality leaves us with a big question: what do we do to right the ship? Furthermore, what does good education look like? Author and educator David Hicks provides an
READ MOREThe PC culture that now dominates American schools is often over-the-top, silly, and uninteresting. And, according to author Theodore Dalrymple, that’s exactly the point. In a 2005 interview he made the following comparison between communist propaganda and the new politically correct culture: “Political correctness is communist propaganda writ small. In my study of
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