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What if Mueller Questioned Barack Obama?0
- Politics
- May 7, 2018
Imagine if a right-wing version of Robert Mueller, backed by a properly pro-Trump legal team, had sent former President Barack Obama the same sort of questions that Mueller allegedly delivered this week to President Trump. The special counsel might dress them up in legalese, innuendo, and with perjury-trap IEDs, thereby casting suspicion with the mere
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G.K. Chesterton on the Fundamental Difference Between the ‘Average Man’ and the ‘Average Woman’0
- Culture
- May 4, 2018
G.K. Chesterton’s thoughts on the differences between the sexes did not begin and end with the issue of the vote. Far from it. As he saw it, the differences were much more profound and much more mysterious than that. Were these differences rooted in biology or in something else? Was it a matter of nature
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True Generosity Involves More than Just Giving 0
- Culture
- May 4, 2018
Who is the most generous person in the world today? Ask folks in the West, and the most popular answer would probably be Bill Gates, the founder of Microsoft. For good reason, too. According to Business Insider’s 2015 ranking of the 20 most generous people in the world, Gates comes in first, with $27 billion
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Boy Scouts Nix the Word ‘Boy,’ Showing They No Longer Believe in Masculinity 0
- Culture
- May 4, 2018
It seems the Boy Scouts of America would prefer not to exist. On Wednesday, the Boy Scouts announced that their signature program known simply as the “Boy Scouts”—which serves ages 10 to 17—will no longer bear the word “boy.” Beginning in February, it will be known as Scouts BSA. This change comes only months after
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Incel: The Death Spiral of Identity Politics 0
- May 4, 2018
The incel movement (short for “involuntarily celibate”) movement has been linked to a recent mass killing, mainly of women, in Toronto. On April 23, 25-year-old Alek Minassian drove a van through a suburban business district, killing eight women and two men and injuring 16 others. The spark for the movement – if you can call
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Why Joanna Gaines’ New Book Has Soared to the Top of the Bestseller List 0
- Culture
- May 4, 2018
I’ve never watched a full episode of “Fixer-Upper,” but I do know the program is the product of husband and wife team, Chip and Joanna Gaines. The Gaines’ recently ended their popular show, partially due to desires to focus more on their family, partially because they wanted to focus on other business ventures. One of
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