Culture

‘How to Handle a Woman’4
- Family, Culture
- February 2, 2023
Now, there’s a title that will wake the woke, particularly females, and send them roaring my way with brickbats and scalping knives. That word “handle” in particular splashes kerosene on the fires of rage, implying as it does some sort of manipulator. Yet “How to Handle a Woman” is the name of a song in
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Marie Kondo and the Clutter That Sparks Joy 3
- Family, Culture
- February 2, 2023
When I was eight years old, a little girl moved in across the street. Since Katie* was an only child and the daughter of two working parents, she spent a fair amount of time at my house, imagining and playing up a storm. One day, several years into our friendship, I happened to be over
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Should Women Settle for Mr. Good Enough?8
- Family, Culture
- January 30, 2023
Recently, a male friend who has asked me out several times sent me a Facebook message about psychotherapist Lori Gottlieb’s best-selling book Marry Him: The Case for Settling for Mr. Good Enough. He thought I might find it interesting, and whether or not this was a ploy to make me regret shooting him down remains
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Ivan Provorov Stands Fast in His Faith 4
- Religion, Culture
- January 25, 2023
Last Tuesday night, the Philadelphia Flyers, a hockey team, participated in an LGBTQ+ Pride Night event. The team—with one exception—donned rainbow-colored jerseys as they warmed up before the game. Defenseman Ivan Provorov opted out. “I respect everybody, and I respect everybody’s choices,” he told reporters. “My choice is to stay true to myself and my
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Even in Our Age of Ugly, Beauty Will Survive 2
- Culture, Philosophy
- January 24, 2023
“Beauty,” wrote philosopher Roger Scruton, “is vanishing from our world because we live as though it did not matter.” Whatever we may think of Scruton’s observation, it seems clear our ideas of beauty are at best confused, at worst degraded, and always subjective. “Beauty is in the eye of the beholder” is, of course, in
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Is All Change Progress? Progressives Think So.9
- Culture
- January 19, 2023
There seems to be a pervasive sentiment in society today that paints progress as an intellectual process which perpetually increases human fulfillment, success, and joy. All change is progress, and all progress is good, so goes the idea. This idea provides the basis for progressivism and encourages development, new ideas, and a rejection of tradition
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