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  • Is Halloween a Christian Holiday?

    Is Halloween a Christian Holiday?11

    Conventional wisdom holds that Halloween is essentially a secular and pagan holiday, the result of the Christian Church appropriating an ancient Celtic harvest festival. But one strain of critical opinion tends to the view that the holiday was thoroughly Christian from the start. In the church calendar, Halloween (All Hallows’ Eve) is the beginning of

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  • A Soupy Saga: Climate Activists Target van Gogh Paintings

    A Soupy Saga: Climate Activists Target van Gogh Paintings1

    Three climate activists poured Heinz soup all over van Gogh’s Sunflowers paintings at the National Gallery of London last month. The stunt came an hour after two other climate activists, Phoebe Plummer and Anna Holland, were sentenced to time in jail for throwing tomato soup on a van Gogh painting at the same gallery in

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  • Fact-Checking Trans Misinformation

    Fact-Checking Trans Misinformation0

    Trans activists insist that no children – no people under 18, that is – receive gender-affirming surgery. There is “little to no utilization of gender-affirming surgeries by transgender and gender-diverse (TGD) minors in the U.S.”– JAMA Network Open, 2024 “Gender-affirming surgeries for minors are exceptionally rare, and are almost always performed for cisgender — not transgender — youth.” – Them, 2024 Gender-affirming

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  • Building an America We Are Proud Of

    Building an America We Are Proud Of1

    R.C. Sherriff, the late English writer, had a talent for depicting the mundane in a way that celebrated life. His writing, characterized by an understated style, provides a deep understanding of human nature. In his 1931 novel, The Fortnight In September, he tells the story of a lower-middle-class family taking their annual holiday at a

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  • Does Diversity Training Accomplish Anything? Evidence Says No.

    Does Diversity Training Accomplish Anything? Evidence Says No.3

    Diversity trainings have become a much beloved ritual for corporations and universities across America. I say “much beloved” because if such trainings were not beloved by somebody, it would be hard to explain their pervasive presence in our institutions. But whatever elite and enlightened groups might find these training sessions appealing, the evidence shows that

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  • Know Thy Geezer: Hang Out With Your Local Old-Timer and Reap the Rewards

    Know Thy Geezer: Hang Out With Your Local Old-Timer and Reap the Rewards4

    Sitting in his chair atop his porch, Mike “A-Sunday” Acendy is watching and maybe also observing things in his lifelong neighborhood of Lawrenceville. At almost 90 years old, Mike A-Sunday, as old-timers know him, is one of the oldest residents. Half-Irish, half-Italian, he lives in the home in which he was born and raised, and

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