Culture

Throwing Victimhood in the Trash 0
- Culture
- September 10, 2021
We can trace our American penchant for victimhood back decades. Consider the 1957 musical “West Side Story,” which features two New York City gangs, the Sharks and the Jets, warring with each other. At one point, some of the Jets sing “Gee, Officer Krupke,” in which they mock the reasons given by the courts, psychologists,
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Abortion: Not Just for Women Anymore 0
- Culture
- September 8, 2021
Like childbearing, abortion isn’t just for women anymore. That is the message coming from the LGBT community and what were once thought of as women’s rights groups in response to Texas Senate Bill 8, the new Texas anti-abortion law. These culturally powerful groups are using the new law to promote current gender ideology, which views
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Haircuts and Hosiery: Do Your Bit to Fight the Delta Variant 0
- Culture
- September 3, 2021
(Note that what follows is entirely satire, including the quotes from a CDC spokesman, which are invented.) Unnoticed by some in the present upheavals caused by the delta variant of COVID-19 was a quiet announcement from the Center for Disease Control linking the virus and human hair. “Numerous tests have
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Raising Children to Be More Than Peppa Parrots 0
- Culture
- September 2, 2021
Peppa Pig, a British children’s cartoon, has taken America by storm, so much so that children are absorbing the British accent its characters feature, a recent article in The Wall Street Journal explains. Parents are reporting that they’ve become “Mummy,” Santa has morphed into “Father Christmas” for whom children must make mince pies, and mature
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Keeping an Eye on Grandpa, the Terrorist 0
- Culture
- August 26, 2021
I’ve just learned I may be a terrorist. On Aug. 13, the Secretary of Homeland Security issued a statement warning about an increase in domestic and foreign terrorism. At the end of the document’s summary were these words: “Such threats are also exacerbated by impacts of the ongoing global pandemic, including grievances over public health
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Surviving Suffering in a World of Pain 0
- Culture
- August 23, 2021
Becoming Elisabeth Elliot, by Ellen Vaughn (B&H Books; 320 pp., $24.99). This is the official biography of the wife of famed missionary martyr Jim Elliot, who was killed along with four other missionaries while attempting to bring the Gospel to a group of savage natives in the South American jungle during the mid-1950s. Elliot was launched
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