Culture

G.K. Chesterton and the Fad of Transgenderism 3
- Culture
- November 10, 2022
Since I was once a teacher, permit me to open this piece with a multiple-choice question. Here it is: The outbreak of transgenderism today is primarily an example of the impact of what? A) an ideology B) medical experts C) a confusion D) a dogma E) all of the above F) none of the above.
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“Anti-Democracy” Just Means “Something the Regime Doesn’t Like.”5
- Politics, Culture
- November 9, 2022
“Democracy” is the new “revolutionary.” In the old Marxist regimes, anything that displeased the ruling communist regime was said to be contrary to “the revolution.” For example, in the Soviet Union, national leaders spoke regularly of how the nation was in the process of “a revolutionary transformation” toward a future idealized communist society. Many years
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Republican House Majority Would Be a Victory for Free Speech 1
- Politics, Culture
- November 9, 2022
Remember President Joe Biden’s Disinformation Governance Board? It was so ridiculed that the administration quickly scaled it back and then shut it down. But beware, Biden is resorting to more secretive methods — a vast censorship operation in collusion with Silicon Valley — to tighten the screws on what Americans can say. It’s all justified
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Imago Dei: Missing in Action 5
- Culture
- November 7, 2022
My brother-in-law is dying. He’s well aware of this fact, as he was diagnosed months ago with an incurable lung disease. He spends a good deal of time sleeping these days, loses his breath after walking up a few steps, and uses an oxygen machine to supplement the air his lungs can’t supply. Bob’s a
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The School of Friendship 2
- Culture, Family
- November 7, 2022
Two Saturdays ago, I had a magical experience. I returned to my late mother’s hometown for a memorial service for one of her best friends—one of three she had known from the time she was five—and exchanged stories at graveside and then at a nearby restaurant with the two survivors about the group’s eight decades
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Useful Idiots on the Right: The Never Trumpers 7
- Politics, Culture
- November 7, 2022
It’s been over five years now since Donald Trump surprised many by winning the 2016 presidential election. Yet in many ways, the hate for him—especially in his own party—has never seemed stronger. One could perhaps have excused Republicans for detesting him back in 2016. He was, after all, an unknown quantity, an outsider of questionable
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