Culture

Why Our Bookstores Never Participated in Banned Books Week 5
- Culture, Literature
- October 3, 2023
Banned Books Week, October 1–7, is here again. Bookstores and libraries across the country will feature displays of what they call banned books. Some mainstream news outlets will offer editorials and articles denouncing censorship in places like school and public libraries. We’ll doubtless hear this year’s theme and slogan, “Let Freedom Read,” repeated from these
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Global Daycare Is Not the Answer 0
- Culture, Family, International
- October 3, 2023
It could be argued that society is in pretty sad shape. Children, in particular, are suffering from a host of problems, including anxiety, obesity, aggression, ADHD, and depression, at the highest rates in history. The new US Strategy on Global Women’s Economic Security is not going to help matters much. In fact, it could make things a
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Canadian School Book Ban: High School Removes All Pre-2008 Books 3
- Culture, Education, Literature
- October 2, 2023
Book banning has become a serious topic of debate throughout the United States and Canada over the past few years, with many left-leaning individuals and organizations calling foul against conservatives who do not believe children should be reading sexually explicit material in the classroom. And while this debate will probably not be resolved anytime soon,
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Making Space for Silence 4
- Culture
- September 28, 2023
In our lives of technology, distraction, and immediacy, silence is often lost. Our minds and bodies need some quiet time, some space to rest. Without this, we become burned-out, stressed, and exhausted. But our lives are busy, and we have responsibilities, jobs, and families. How do we daily make room for silence? Here are some
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Public Spaces in Decline: A Metric of Societal Health 2
- Culture
- September 28, 2023
Former Trump official William Wolfe recently lamented the neglect steadily encroaching his local grocery store. “Let me tell you: I’ve never seen stores in such bad shape as they are now,” he wrote. “No one staffing the main check out lines, massive line for the self check outs, stores messy, items unstocked. … It’s like
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How Not To Be a Barbarian 3
- Culture
- September 26, 2023
The Barbarian hopes—and that is the very mark of him—that he can have his cake and eat it too. He will consume what civilization has slowly produced after generations of selection and effort, but he will not be at the pains to replace such goods, nor indeed has he a comprehension of the virtue that
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