Culture

Protecting the Magic of Childhood 53
- Culture
- March 1, 2022
A couple of years ago, some friends and I were discussing the lottery. “When people ask me if I ever buy tickets, I tell them I already won the lottery,” one man said. “I was born in the middle of the 20th century in the United States of America.” Roughly 70 years after that mid-20th
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A Principled Way of Addressing Trans Athletics 0
- Culture
- February 28, 2022
Swimmer Lia Thomas swept her individual races at the recent Ivy League Swimming and Diving Championships, breaking numerous records in the process. Thomas is now headed to the NCAA Championships in mid-March, albeit with much controversy, for Thomas’s recent identification transition from a man to a woman is perceived by many, teammates included, as an
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Trucking With Joe Biden 2
- Culture
- February 25, 2022
The big rigs are hitting the road as I write these words. A thousand trucks departed from California late in February on their way to Washington, D.C., The Daily Mail reports. Others from around the country will join that convoy. If their schedule goes as planned, they’ll arrive in the
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Where Have All the Great Men Gone? (Not to Harvard)0
- Culture
- February 24, 2022
The other day, Harvard senior Julie Hartman wrote a brief tale in the Wall Street Journal about what has been happening on that revered campus since COVID landed its microscopic self on American shores. She and her classmates have been denied the norms of campus life, treated instead to mask-wearing, social distancing, and endless COVID
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Our Failing Students Are Crippled for Life 0
- Culture
- February 17, 2022
Thirty-odd years ago, I taught adult basic education two nights a week in a minimum-security prison in Hazelwood, North Carolina. The men in my classes had committed a variety of crimes. The majority were incarcerated for drug-related felonies, mostly possession and dealing. One major dealer from Charlotte was rumored to
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Why So Many Families Are Uprooting and Fleeing to Freer States 0
- Culture
- February 17, 2022
Emily Burns had every intention of staying in Massachusetts. A longtime Boston resident, she, her husband, and three children left the city to settle in the upscale suburb of Newton in January 2020. What followed were two years of ongoing disruption and frustration. Prolonged school closures and continued coronavirus policies such as mask mandates angered
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