Culture

Professional Poker: A Last Refuge of the Gentleman 0
- Culture
- March 9, 2022
Feminists are waging war against men. And they are winning. Yet in this war, there are still a few voices who speak about how to be a gentleman in a hostile world. Chronicles writer Stephen Baskerville does just this in his excellent book, A Gentleman’s Guide to Manners, Sex, and Ruling the World. Being a
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Boats Against the Current: Taking Hopeless Times and Making Them Otherwise 0
- Culture
- March 8, 2022
“The test of a first-rate intelligence is the ability to hold two opposed ideas in mind at the same time, and still retain the ability to function,” F. Scott Fitzgerald wrote in his 1936 essay, “The Crack-Up.” Given that test, I’m afraid I would flunk hands-down. Here are some contradictory
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A Change in Sex Ed? Count Me In 1
- Culture
- March 4, 2022
As some readers may know, I’m an old guy, born during the middle of the Korean War. Which makes me a time machine. Listen to me, and I can whisk you back to the late 1960s, when in high school we took biology and health classes. In biology we probably
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Training Faithful Foot Soldiers in the War Against the Elite 0
- Culture
- March 3, 2022
A friend of mine recently bemoaned the fact that people only ever tell her how difficult parenting is. Since she is expecting her first child, such “friendly advice” isn’t the most encouraging thing to hear. Unfortunately, discouraging words about raising children aren’t all that out of the ordinary, a fact writer Lucy Huber addresses in
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The World Wants to Be Deceived 1
- Culture
- March 2, 2022
In October 2021, Facebook changed its brand name to Meta. “We believe the metaverse will be the successor to the mobile internet,” CEO Mark Zuckerberg said in a speech announcing the change. “We’ll be able to feel present—like we’re right here with people no matter how far apart we actually are.” Never mind that this
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NYT Publishes Slanderous Video About the Death of Trayvon Martin 0
- Culture
- March 1, 2022
On the 10th anniversary of the death of Trayvon Martin, the New York Times has published a video about this tragedy that slanders individuals, sows racial resentments, and impugns the people of the United States en masse. In addition to employing a series of highly deceptive half-truths, the video edits a police recording to make
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