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Comrades in Arms: Friendship and Tough Times 1
- Culture, Family
- February 17, 2023
Feeling depressed by the state of the nation? Sucked under by the daily torrent of negative news? Powerless in the grip of forces greater than yourself? Join the crowd. In October 2022, the American Psychological Association (APA) released data showing that 70 percent of adults don’t believe their government cares about their well-being and that
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Friday Comic: Calculated Moves 0
- Entertainment
- February 17, 2023
“Calculated Moves.” Credit: OwenComics (store). Twitter: @owenbroadcast. Instagram: @owenbroadcast. ITO Save this article to favorites
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The Good Catastrophe: Why Everyone Should Read Great Literature 4
- Literature
- February 16, 2023
When I first attended a Shakespeare play, I have to admit that for the first few scenes I was pretty lost. Shakespeare’s English is of a much older and more formal style than ours, so sometimes experiencing his work is almost like hearing another language. Confused and concerned that the play wasn’t going to make
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The Death and Resurrection of Bilbo Baggins 1
- Literature, Religion
- February 16, 2023
In a hole in the ground there lived a hobbit…. The opening sentence of The Hobbit is one of the most famous first sentences in all of literature. Simple and short, like its subject, it ignites the imagination the moment we read it. What on earth, and in its comfortable hole in the earth, is a hobbit?
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Informed Consent and the Pill 5
- Family, Science
- February 15, 2023
Like many women, when I was given the birds and bees talk, I was told about hormonal birth control pills as a common method of contraception. Indeed, 14 percent of women take the pill. There’s plenty of controversy to be had around this drug. And to be clear, this is not an anti-contraception article; I
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Why the Attack on the Family Is Doomed 0
- Politics, Family
- February 15, 2023
Writer, speaker, wife, and mother-of-five Kimberly Ells tells the story of the Hadjok family living under communist rule in Hungary before their escape over the Austrian border in The Invincible Family. By day, the two children, Vera and Johan, attended a compulsory state school, which indoctrinated them and all the other students in the tenets
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