Culture

Making Men the Old-Fashioned Way 1
- Culture, Family
- September 18, 2023
Lots of politicians running for higher office write books—or have them ghost-written. There they tell readers, which means prospective voters, what they’ve done and what they intend to do. Most of these are mere chest-pufferies that probably find few readers. Josh Hawley’s Manhood: The Masculine Virtues America Needs is different. Here the Missouri senator lays
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Radical Education and Intersectionality: Who Is Bell Hooks?2
- Education, Culture, Philosophy
- September 15, 2023
Many of us are well aware of the indoctrination in today’s classrooms. Whether it’s sexually explicit materials or woke ideology in the classroom, each day seems to bring a new round of insanity. But when it comes to radical ideas in education today, the root of the problem goes back decades. In the 20th century,
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20 Historical Hobbies for $20 or Less 3
- Culture
- September 15, 2023
New hobbies can seem intimidating and—worse—expensive. The internet offers complicated lists and costly supplies for even the most basic of skills. We might feel that we can’t invest too much into a hobby—who knows if we’ll be good at it anyway? In reality, many hobbies—particularly those that rely more on building a skill than on
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The Last Bastion: In a World Gone Loco, Your Home and Community Are Your Citadels 1
- Family, Culture
- September 12, 2023
“Peace—that was the other name for home,” wrote American novelist Kathleen Norris. During the past few years, America has gone round the bend, addled by a never-ending tsunami of sound-bites, bad news, and disastrous events: the pandemic, the Afghanistan fiasco, the talk of nuclear war, the battles over race and sex in our schools, the
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What Can You Actually Do About Child Trafficking?6
- Culture
- September 7, 2023
As Sound of Freedom booms across the nation, a spotlight shines on child trafficking. Perhaps we hear a call to fight this sadistic crime. Yet standing against such a large-scale and horrific problem, we can feel powerless or unimportant. What impact can we really have? The truth is our capacity for impact is great. There
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The Loss of Local Living: Implications for Economics and Culture 3
- Culture, Economics
- September 6, 2023
What makes a good city? In his Politics, Aristotle says that one key characteristic of a good city is self-sufficiency. Aquinas, following Aristotle, writes in De Regno: Now there are two ways in which an abundance of foodstuffs can be supplied to a city. The first we have already mentioned, where the soil is so
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