Culture

The Counter-Repudiation That’s on the Way 8
- Culture, Politics, Western Civilization
- August 17, 2022
Philosopher, writer, and teacher Roger Scruton labeled our age “the culture of repudiation” in his 1998 book An Intelligent Person’s Guide to Modern Culture. Though I am oversimplifying here, his basic premise was that academics and other influential writers and thinkers had given up defending, much less advancing, Western thought and culture. Many, in fact,
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Beware of Big Bathroom Brother 2
- Education, Culture, Politics
- August 17, 2022
Nine years ago, I warned readers about “eyelock biometric readers” adopted by Florida schools to track them on buses. Under the guise of fighting guns and vaping, countless schools this year are now installing surveillance sensors in bathrooms that can spy and record students’ alleged “aggression” and red-flag “spoken key words.” Eight years ago, I
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Woke Silliness at Its Worst: A Non-binary Joan of Arc 1
- Culture, Entertainment, History, International, Literature
- August 17, 2022
A new play about Joan of Arc, I, Joan, opens in London next week. After all the plays, poetry, novels, and biographies published since she was burned at the stake in 1431, it’s difficult to imagine that anything fresh can be said about the Maid of Orleans, However, the Globe Theatre, a successor to Shakespeare’s theatre,
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Southern-Fried Hebrew: Surprises and Lessons From a DNA Test 2
- Family, Culture, Religion
- August 16, 2022
My name is Dr. Bob Dunn, and I come from Atlanta, the land of Chick-Fil-a, Coca Cola, and Braves baseball. I grew up in an evangelical Christian home and my family was from traditional British Isle stock and had been in the South since before America’s Founding. Or so I thought. One day my wife
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Riding the Underground with Winston Churchill 4
- Culture, History, Politics, Uncategorized, Western Civilization
- August 15, 2022
Five minutes and 47 seconds. That’s the length of the scene when Prime Minister Winston Churchill avails himself of the Underground, also called the Tube, in the film Darkest Hour (2017), a brief and fictitious cinematic interlude, yes, but one bulging with messages for us today. On boarding the carriage, as the English call it,
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Standing on Principles, Protecting Our Children 4
- Education, Culture, Family, Politics
- August 12, 2022
We’ve heard a lot about parents demanding the removal of inappropriate books from schools lately—particularly those depicting sex acts between minors and promoting hatred of police—a trend which will likely escalate as we get into the school year. And as that trend escalates, attacks on these same parents for being “intolerant” will likely escalate as
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