Culture

People Without Meaningful Lives Seek Power Over Others 3
- Culture
- August 26, 2024
One of my more memorable exchanges with a student came in a principles of economics class. Part of the assignment for that week was chapters from Matt Ridley’s The Rational Optimist. Ridley compared the living standards of an average worker today with those of The Sun King, Louis XIV, in 1700. Some of my more ahistorical students
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Successful People Don’t Believe in Conspiracies 4
- Culture, Featured
- August 23, 2024
It seems impossible to deny that powerful forces are conspiring to suppress basic freedoms and impose top-down control over American society. Intelligence agencies team up with Big Tech to censor information, governments are marking political dissidents as “terror threats,” and presidential candidates are hand-picked by party elites. Looking around, I can’t help but feel that
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Soviet Britain and the Future of America 3
- Culture, Featured, International
- August 22, 2024
Editor’s note: Please note that this article contains discussion of crimes such as sexual assault. We believe the stories, while disturbing even when told with minimal detail, deserve mention and honest reporting. In recent weeks, riots have broken out across the U.K., with rival gangs of native Britons and Muslims clashing. The police response has
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Transgender People Do Not Have a Right to Choose Their Bathroom 2
- Culture, Education, Featured
- August 21, 2024
Some college students today face a self-imposed dilemma unknown to our forebears: Which bathroom do I use? One example is Cecil, a student at the University of Alabama who believes that she is a man. Now, Cecil is afraid that Alabama’s laws and regulations may limit the freedom of that bathroom decision-making process. As reported
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The Importance of Learning About Local History and Culture 3
- Culture, Featured, History
- August 20, 2024
A human community, then, if it is to last long, must exert a sort of centripetal force, holding local soil and local memory in place. Practically speaking, human society has no work more important than this. These are the words of farmer and writer Wendell Berry in his essay “The Work of Local Culture.” We
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Gen Z Is More Religious Than You Think 2
- Culture, Featured, Religion
- August 20, 2024
Many Americans believe our world’s becoming more secular. While that’s true, many of today’s fastest-growing religious denominations aren’t progressive—they’re traditional. Here’s what the data show. In the 1990s, 90 percent of Americans identified as Christians on Pew surveys. Today, that number has fallen to about 67 percent. Among young adults, over 40 percent are religiously
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