Culture

The Strangest Thing About ‘Stranger Things’2
- Education, Culture, Entertainment, Family
- August 5, 2022
If you watch Stranger Things with your kids, there’s a good chance they spend some of the time crying. Not because the monsters are so scary, but because the kids are so free. It’s like monkeys at the zoo watching a Jane Goodall documentary. In pretty much every episode, Will, Max, Dustin, Lucas, El, and
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Four Elements of a Good History Curriculum 5
- Education, Culture, History, Politics, Western Civilization
- August 4, 2022
Protesting parents showing up at school-board meetings is one of the new scenes in our cultural landscape in recent months. COVID policies and gender propaganda are big on the list of things parents oppose, but the teaching of critical race theory (CRT) is another issue that raises their hackles. CRT disturbs many parents because it
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Don’t Confuse Sesame Place with Jim Crow 0
- Culture, History, Politics
- August 4, 2022
“Daddy, why do white people treat colored people so mean?” asked Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.’s five-year-old son six decades ago. A Baltimore family recently filed a $25 million class action racial discrimination lawsuit against Sesame Place, a Muppets-themed amusement park outside Philadelphia. A video showed a Muppet character named Rosita high-fiving white kids while
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Taking Poetry to Heart Is a Lifetime Gift 2
- Education, Culture, Literature
- August 3, 2022
In the spring of 2014, I served as prompter for a local homeschool poetry fest in Asheville, North Carolina. From pre-K students to high school seniors, students marched onto stage and recited verse to an audience composed of family and friends. The little ones trebled out nursery rhymes, middle-schoolers delivered impressive reams of rhymes—Shel Silverstein’s
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Murder Rate Rises Due to Short Sentences Sought by Progressive Prosecutors 4
- Culture, Politics
- August 1, 2022
Baltimore’s homicide rate has risen since 2014. Over 200 people have been killed in Baltimore in just the first seven months of this year, about as many as died in all of the year 2014, even though Baltimore’s population has shrunk a lot since 2014. Murders have risen there because prosecutors haven’t been seeking long
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Word Salads No More 5
- Education, Culture, Western Civilization
- July 29, 2022
Church was crowded, and I ended up, as I often do, sitting near the back. Just as Mass began, I glanced over my shoulder, as I also often do, to see whether some elderly person or pregnant mom might need a seat. (Saint John’s is jammed full of young families and children.) I spend a
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