Culture

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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Chloe’s Story: Puberty Blockers at 13, a Double Mastectomy at 15 1
- Culture, Politics, Science
- July 29, 2022
The California State Assembly has been studying a bill, SB 107, to declare the state a sanctuary for minors who have been denied transgender-affirming medicine and surgery elsewhere. SB 107 would permit insurance companies, physicians, and contractors to disregard subpoenas about child custody if the child is being medically treated for gender dysphoria. It would also
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First Things First, Then Politics 1
- Religion, Culture, Politics, Western Civilization
- July 28, 2022
I was a bit jarred by a recent American Greatness article about how Republicans are bleeding white college graduates to those on the progressive left. I should’ve known this stuff is happening—I’ve seen it firsthand with those I love. The article raised a lot of good questions, particularly how to stem the tide of young
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One More Good Soul Gone to God 2
- Culture, Family, Politics, Science
- July 27, 2022
When he speaks of his son, you can hear the pride and the love in Ernest Ramirez’s voice. “When Junior was seven, I bought a couple of baseball gloves,” he tells me over the phone. “We played lots of catch, and he picked up the game right away. At first, if I threw the ball
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