Culture

A Gift to the World: Seeking Not Our Own 4
- Culture, Politics
- October 21, 2022
A teacher who was also a poet once explained to me the meaning of a “found poem.” It’s a poem that takes its words and lines from sources outside the poet: newspaper headlines, advertisements, the outdoor message boards found in front of churches, an overheard conversation, even graffiti. Just this morning, I came across a
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Meeting Triumph and Disaster With the Ideal Man 9
- Culture, Religion
- October 20, 2022
Admittedly, I’ve never been a huge poetry fan. But in recent years, I’ve come to appreciate it, especially when the poems speak to the very things I’m dealing with. In these cases, poetry gives me strength and courage to walk the difficult road. One of the poems that has hit me in the gut this
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A Counterpunch to the Assault on Manliness 9
- Family, Culture
- October 19, 2022
On a mid-October visit with my daughter and her family, my son-in-law began recounting stories from a former construction job. He spoke of end-of-day contests—monkey-bar style races, for example, in which construction workers would race across the trusses of a building using hammers instead of the hands, which lasted until one guy slipped and concussed
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Raising Girls to Be Real Women 4
- Family, Culture, Literature
- October 18, 2022
I recently wrote an article providing some forgotten tips on how to raise boys to be real men. But boys aren’t the only sex that we need help raising. Boys are getting sucked into the feminist vortex of our culture, but that vortex also is swallowing girls at perhaps an even greater frequency. So how do we raise
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Why So Many Elites Can’t Stand Elon Musk 3
- Culture, Politics
- October 17, 2022
Elon Musk’s Twitter-acquisition saga saw new developments last week as Musk reaffirmed his original offer to buy the company for $54.20 per share, a price that puts the company’s value at a whopping $44 billion. After the original deal was settled in April, Musk tried to back out in July, alleging Twitter was misrepresenting the
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Climbing Out of the Grievance Pit 4
- Culture, History
- October 14, 2022
Sometimes one gets great insight from the oddest places. This happened to me the other day when a headline about Meghan, the Duchess of Sussex, caught my eye. As we all know, Meghan had a massive fallout with the British royal family, moving to the U.S. with her husband Prince Harry to allegedly live private
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