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Three Tips for Helping Weary Kids Through the Pandemic 0
- Family
- August 28, 2020
Is the coronavirus crisis ever going to end? It is the question we are all asking – particularly the youngest members of our society. While the science shows the virus itself is not very dangerous to children, the emotional damage they are suffering from the shutdowns is potentially enormous. Their lives have been turned upside down. In
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Our Problem Is American Apophenia 0
- Culture
- August 28, 2020
A reader of my articles sent me the following two words along with the cryptic suggestion that, given our times and my sensibilities, I might make use of them in a column. Having no idea at all what either word meant, I looked them up online and unearthed these definitions: Apophenia (/æpoʊˈfiːniə/) is the tendency to mistakenly
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Retreat Is Not an Option 0
- Culture
- August 27, 2020
In 2018, Rod Dreher published The Benedict Option: A Strategy for Christians Living in a Post-Christian World. In it, he argued that Christians needed to recognize that this is a post-Christian society, and that they should withdraw as much as possible from it and build up private Christian communities. His inspiration for this concept is
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Small Signs of Hope That Lockdowns Could Soon End 0
- Politics
- August 27, 2020
For so many months, it’s been nonstop bad news on business closures, arts trashed, museum shuttering, unemployment, missed surgeries and diagnostics, plus rising loneliness, drug overdoses, depression, and suicide. Every day has been as dark or darker than the previous one. And yet here we are with a political class, all over the world, refusing
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Gallup Poll: Homeschooling Rate Doubles 0
- Education
- August 27, 2020
Results of a new Gallup poll released this week may give us the sharpest look yet at how the COVID-19 pandemic has disrupted American education and what may lie ahead. According to the poll, parents’ overall satisfaction with their child’s education dropped 10 percent over last year, while at the same time the number of
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Eyes Wide Open: Seeing Liberty 0
- Culture
- August 27, 2020
In Lost In The Cosmos: The Last Self-Help Book, Walker Percy raises a number of philosophical questions regarding the self and why we know so little about ourselves. He also invites readers to participate in a number of “Thought Experiments.” In a chapter on “Why the Self is the only Object in the Cosmos which Gets Bored,”
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