Culture

Want a Life of Adventure, Drama, and Comedy? Have Kids.5
- Culture, Family, Western Civilization
- July 21, 2022
Only “61 percent of the able workforce is currently officially employed,” Victor Davis Hanson writes in a recent Epoch Times article. “In just 14 years,” he notes further, “the fertility rate has crashed to 1.64 from 2.12—meaning that both citizens and resident aliens in America aren’t replacing themselves.” That replacement rate without immigration is approximately
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Are We Living Under a Kakistocracy: Government by the Worst?5
- Politics, Culture, Religion, Western Civilization
- July 21, 2022
In 1787, as Benjamin Franklin left the final session of the Constitutional Convention, he was asked what form of government the delegates had given America. “A Republic,” he answered, “if you can keep it.” Spoiler alert: we didn’t. In 1963, Leonard Read warned Americans that “our once-upon-a-time Republic” was degenerating into something else; “we are headed into
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Turning Pain Into a Blessing 2
- Culture, Religion
- July 20, 2022
When my editor offered the opportunity to write some stories on folks whose health was adversely affected by the COVID-19 vaccine, I jumped at the chance. The assignment may sound depressing to some, but I knew it was important to write the stories of a group of people who’ve been marginalized and ignored. What I
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We’re Overdue for a Reality Check 1
- Culture, Politics
- July 19, 2022
“Denial,” goes an old Alcoholics Anonymous word-pun, “isn’t just a river in Egypt.” Agreed. My online dictionary defines denial as “the action of declaring something to be untrue, a statement that something is not true.” A classic example of that definition recently happened in Los Angeles. Likely boosted by a media looking for headlines, officials
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Northern Arizona University to Require Four Diversity Courses to Graduate 1
- Culture, Education, Politics
- July 19, 2022
Schools are making it harder to focus on academic subjects such as economics, history, math, and science, by forcing students to waste time taking classes that indoctrinate them in left-wing ideology, such as “critical theory” or critical race theory. The College Fix reports on a recent example. Northern Arizona University will soon require students to
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Why Country Bumpkins Will Win the Day 9
- Culture, Politics, Western Civilization
- July 18, 2022
My neighbors hunt. These so-called “country bumpkins” can survive in the forest, hills, lakes, and rivers here in Indiana. They understand the world of nature, its vicissitudes and barbarism. Appreciating its transcendent beauty and cadences, they also accept its fierce cruelties. These country bumpkins do not worship nature. Rather, they seek reconciliation with it, desiring that their loved ones
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