Culture

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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‘Woke’ Tour Guides Now Mangle History at Monticello 12
- Culture, Education, History, Politics
- July 15, 2022
The evil that men do lives after them; The good is oft interred with their bones; So let it be with Caesar. Substitute “Jefferson” for “Caesar” in Marc Anthony’s funeral speech, and you have a tidy summation of the guided “woke” tours at Thomas Jefferson’s home, Monticello. On July 5th—the day after our nation once
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Steve Wenger, Vaccine Survivor 4
- Science, Culture, Politics
- July 15, 2022
Working as a telecom construction project manager on a Navajo reservation in Arizona, Steve Wenger was reluctant to get the COVID-19 vaccine. But the reservation was hit hard by COVID, and its residents put a lot of pressure on him to get the jab. So, in May 2021, Wenger, now 56, got the Johnson &
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Bored No More: What Escaping Government Schools Can Do for Our Kids 8
- Education, Culture
- July 14, 2022
It continually amazes me to see the proliferation of good coming out of the COVID-19 pandemic, particularly regarding its effects on the education system and the students in it. Yes, the attempt to somehow transfer the traditional classroom to an online environment was a disaster that left many students bored … but another story has
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A Candle in the Darkness, a Call to Enlist Against Tyranny 10
- Culture, History
- July 13, 2022
Staying upbeat these days sometimes requires the strength of a Samson, the mind-set of a Millennialist, the heart of a Pollyanna, and a bottle of New Amsterdam Vodka. I lacked all of these weapons one recent evening. I’ve taken a leave of absence from alcohol, and the other attributes were as remote from me as
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No Place Like Home to Help Freedom Grow 6
- Culture, Economics, Family, Philosophy, Western Civilization
- July 12, 2022
While having dinner with a Chinese couple several years ago, I listened as they described their visiting parents’ response to the American landscape. Having recently arrived from China, the parents’ amazement about the Dakotas was particularly amusing. “So much space!” was the loose translation. “They could build so many apartments!” I laughed heartily at the
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