Culture

Tearing Down the Greats and the ‘Democratic Spirit’0
- Culture
- June 19, 2020
Imagine a white male carrying an American flag, wearing a Trump t-shirt, and accessorizing with a MAGA hat. Now imagine him looking at a wall of pictures memorializing various black individuals killed by police – and imagine him doing so within Seattle’s newly established autonomous zone, CHOP. If you think that sounds like a recipe
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You Can’t Learn From a History That’s Been Deleted 0
- Culture
- June 19, 2020
The “memory hole” is one of the most haunting images in George Orwell’s dystopian novel Nineteen Eighty-Four. Used by government workers at the Ministry of Truth, this chute in the wall enabled Oceania’s one-party government to edit history at will and incinerate all evidence of their propagandistic deeds: “Every record has been destroyed or falsified,
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Adam Smith’s Three Moral Principles for Navigating Our National Crisis 0
- Culture
- June 18, 2020
America is on fire. Protestors are burning flags. Rioters are burning cars. And people are metaphorically burning bridges, rendering it impossible to speak across the chasm of political difference. It’s time to pause in burning down our national house. As the Talking Heads warn in their iconic song, “Watch out. You might get what you
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Kangaroo Court Nation 0
- Culture
- June 18, 2020
The premise behind much of the protesting we hear in our time from women, African Americans, gays, and other groups granted the special status of being in the minority (how that applies to women, who make up more than half of the population, is hard to see), is that they are to be believed when
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Leaving Richmond Because of Racism 0
- Culture
- June 17, 2020
For most of his life, my friend John, 60, has lived near Richmond, Virginia. Much of that time his home was about 75 yards from the city limits, but for the last few years he has rented an apartment in Henrico County, still less than two miles from the city. He attended a private school
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OSU Coach Censured for Choice of News Channel 0
- Culture
- June 17, 2020
Mike Gundy, the head coach of Oklahoma State University’s football team, is in hot water. His crime? Wearing a One America News Network (OAN) branded t-shirt while out fishing. This sparked the ire of Gundy’s star running back Chuba Hubbard. In response to the photo of Gundy’s fishing haul, Hubbard tweeted, “I will not stand for this..
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