Culture

Why the Worst Rise to the Top in Politics 0
- Culture
- August 24, 2020
The coronavirus pandemic has hit the state of New York especially hard. Almost 33,000 New Yorkers have died from the virus, more total deaths than any other state in the country. And New York ranks as the second-worst state for deaths when adjusted for population. The Empire State alone accounts for one in five coronavirus
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Countering the Spiritual Darkness Brought by Coronavirus 0
- Culture
- August 21, 2020
Let me first speak plainly: I am not given to self-pity. Like all adults my age, I’ve experienced sadness and heartbreak – deaths, financial setbacks, disappointments – and I’ve wronged and hurt others, but never did I shake a fist at God, life, or fate, and ask “Why me?” Self-pity is not a part of
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Michelle Obama and the Woke Capitalists Destroying America 0
- Culture
- August 20, 2020
On August 17, Michelle Obama delivered a speech to a remote DNC convention from her palatial home in Martha’s Vineyard. Among other grievances that reached the listeners were these: “Stating the simple fact that a black life matters is still met with derision from the nation’s highest office.” Further: “They see our leaders labelling fellow citizens
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Should America Be Guided by ‘Narratives’ or Truth?0
- Culture
- August 20, 2020
In a recent interview, Attorney General William Barr said of the dominant news media: They are projecting a narrative. When the word ‘narrative’ came into currency, I knew we were in trouble, because the word narrative suggests that there’s no objective truth. There’s no real story of what happened, it’s just everyone has their own
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Poly-Parenting: Is This The Brave New World We Want?0
- Culture
- August 20, 2020
In her recent New York Times article, “The Poly-Parent Households Are Coming,” Professor Debora L. Spar of Harvard Business School seems eager to welcome what she paints as the inevitable arrival of poly-parenting – babies biotechnologically conceived by any number of parent donors of every combination of biological sex. All this and more is facilitated by coming
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Dark Clouds and Silver Linings: Hope in Our Age of Anxiety 0
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- August 19, 2020
Recently a friend who works as an editor for a large homeschool company told me his supervisors had temporarily assigned him to the admissions department. “In June,” he explained, “our enrollments were up 35 percent, in July they were up 100 percent over the previous July, and now it’s mid-August and we’ve already broken that
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