Culture

How to Maintain a Partisan Friendship During an Election Year 0
- Culture
- September 3, 2020
Throughout literary history, without concern for era or genre, there have been a slew of authors who happen to strike up long-lived friendships with fellow writers. Tolkien and Lewis, Emerson and Louisa May Alcott, and Twain and Ulysses S. Grant comprise a few exemplary pairs of writer-friends. However, one relationship among literary giants is often
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DC Mayor Embraces Report Calling for Removal of Washington Monument 0
- Culture
- September 2, 2020
Washington, D.C., Mayor Muriel Bowser said Tuesday she looks forward to advancing the recommendations made in a report that urged her to remove, relocate, or contextualize the Washington Monument because of its “disqualifying” history. District of Columbia Facilities and Commemorative Expressions (DCFACES) said in a report Monday that it was tasked with evaluating whether statues
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Just an Average Person Turning the World Right Side Up 0
- Culture
- September 2, 2020
A friend of mine was recently venting woes to me in the midst of his bad day. Grumpily recounting his attempt to cool off by walking to a nearby store to buy a soda he said, “I got halfway there and I realized, ‘I don’t have my mask!’” His frustration over this last straw was
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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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