Culture

A Walk on the Dark Side 0
- Culture
- September 2, 2020
Abandon hope all ye who enter here. Dante Alighieri coined the above phrase in his Divine Comedy, an inscription hung by the poet above the gates of hell. Today “Abandon hope all ye who enter here” might serve as the perfect slogan for that band of anarchists, Marxists, thugs, and all-round loonies running amuck in
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Why the State Seeks to Abolish Both Tradition and History 2
- Culture
- September 1, 2020
In the opening monologue of the much-beloved musical Fiddler on the Roof, Tevye the milkman compares life for the Jewish inhabitants of the village Anatevka to the balancing act required of a fiddler scratching out a tune on a rooftop. According to Tevya’s famous allegory, the people of Anatevka are able to keep their balance
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Debunking NPR’s Bizarre ‘In Defense of Looting’ Interview 0
- Culture
- September 1, 2020
Most listeners tune into NPR to catch up on the news on their commute home in the afternoon. But, increasingly, the state-run media outlet’s audience is instead being treated to far-left political arguments – sympathetically aired and left unchallenged. On August 27, the public radio station aired an interview with the author of the book In Defense
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‘Ammonite’ May Be the Least Feminist Movie of 2020 0
- Culture
- August 31, 2020
Hollywood’s first treatment of the pioneering paleontologist Mary Anning invented an entirely fictious lesbian love story, taking the focus away from her compelling narrative as a self-taught genius forced to operate on the outskirts of British geology due to her gender. As a result, Ammonite may be the least feminist movie that comes out this year. Known
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University Shouldn’t Punish Me for Not Addressing Male Student as ‘Ms.’0
- Culture
- August 31, 2020
Returning from a sabbatical in my 21st year at Ohio’s Shawnee State University, I resumed teaching my regular political philosophy course. Taking questions in one such class at the end of my first day back, I acknowledged a male student with a “Yes, sir?” (It’s my practice to address my students in this way and
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Our Problem Is American Apophenia 0
- Culture
- August 28, 2020
A reader of my articles sent me the following two words along with the cryptic suggestion that, given our times and my sensibilities, I might make use of them in a column. Having no idea at all what either word meant, I looked them up online and unearthed these definitions: Apophenia (/æpoʊˈfiːniə/) is the tendency to mistakenly
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