Culture

Farmer and Former Factory Worker Finds Overnight Fame with Viral Country Ballad 5
- Culture, Entertainment
- August 18, 2023
Last week, Oliver Anthony was a blue-collar worker from Farmville, Virginia, living on a 90-acre farm with his three dogs, a man unknown to the world. Today, his song “Rich Men North of Richmond” is at the top of the global music charts. A backyard recording of his “blue collar anthem,” as it’s been dubbed,
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Liberalism Is Broken and Canada Proves It 1
- Culture, Philosophy, Politics
- August 17, 2023
Liberalism is broken. This is a big kick-sand-in-my-face claim. And extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence. Canada’s embrace of euthanasia supplies that evidence. Let’s unpack this. First, what is “liberalism”? Its meaning shifts depending on whether one is speaking of economics or politics or ethics. Edmund Fawcett’s excellent Liberalism: The Life of an Idea, surveys scores of
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Stop the Grandstanding in Women’s Soccer 9
- Culture
- August 16, 2023
Upon learning that the U.S. Women’s National Team (USWNT) was knocked out of the Women’s World Cup after a 5-4 loss to Sweden, I was not very sympathetic toward the team. It was particularly fitting that Megan Rapinoe, the team’s sour-faced forward and chief political activist, missed an important goal kick near the end of
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Ne-Yo and the Struggle Session That Went Off-Script 5
- Culture, Entertainment
- August 11, 2023
“Struggle sessions” were a form of public humiliation and ideological re-education used during Maoist China. They involved mass gatherings where counterrevolutionaries and other enemies of the Communist Party were subjected to criticism, verbal abuse, and physical humiliation. The aim of a struggle session was to force the dissenter to confess their supposed wrongdoings and embrace
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What Al Sharpton Could Learn About Education From Madison and Jefferson 2
- Education, Culture
- August 11, 2023
Last week, Rev. Al Sharpton caused some titters to erupt across the internet by his commentary on the Trump indictment over the Jan. 6th issue. “One day our children’s children will read American history,” Sharpton said, “and can you imagine our reading that James Madison or Thomas Jefferson tried to overthrow the government so they could
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If Only Jason Aldean Were a Rapper 2
- Culture, Entertainment
- August 10, 2023
You may remember when the press assured us the 2020 summer riots were “peaceful protests.” Now the same media outlets want us to believe that a country song criticizing such violent behavior is “promoting violence.” Jason Aldean’s latest single “Try That in a Small Town” has dominated news headlines. No shrinking violet when it comes
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