Culture

Principles Are the Antidote to Politics 0
- Culture, Politics
- September 27, 2024
Only four percent “of US adults say the political system is working extremely or very well.” Sixty-five percent say we “always or often feel exhausted when thinking about politics.” Yet, we keep doubling down, thinking that more attention on politics will somehow fix what ails society. In 2020, candidates spent over $14 billion seeking the presidency. This was
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Break Out of Bad Therapy: Gen Z’s Road to Resilience 0
- Family, Culture, Science
- September 26, 2024
In 2018, 1,200 Yale undergraduates crowded into one of the University’s largest venues, Battell Chapel, ready to listen and learn. But the students sitting in the glow of the chapel’s stained-glass windows, who comprised almost a quarter of Yale’s undergraduate population, were not there for a church service. They were there for the most popular
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The Key Ingredient We’re Missing: Integration 1
- Culture, Featured
- September 25, 2024
The same thing that makes for a beautiful piece of music makes for a healthy society: harmony. In a beautiful musical composition (such as the alt-folk album Appaloosa Bones that I’m listening to as I write), the notes of each chord harmonize with one another, as do the notes of the melody, and a unifying
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Fulton Sheen and the Power of Speech 2
- Culture, Featured, Religion
- September 24, 2024
It is the early days of television in one of the studios of TV network pioneer DuMont. There is a live audience gathered before a mock study, and all is quiet. The cameras start to roll. A door at the back of the set opens and out walks a remarkable figure. He is dressed in
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Life, Death, and Joy in Autumn 6
- Culture, Featured, MomThink
- September 23, 2024
“It sounds fantastic to say that one can be enamored of a season, but that is something like what happened.” —C.S. Lewis, Surprised by Joy Whenever I listen to people describing Autumn, there are differing opinions but similar observations. Some dread the season because it means the ending of the vibrant summer, others because it
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At the Mercy of Palliative Care 2
- Culture
- September 23, 2024
I stood in the elevator waiting for it to reach its destination and reflected on the tumultuous journey leading to my father being admitted to palliative care. Although we all die, the recent weeks brought this reality sharply into focus. Death is everyone’s final destination, but it is almost taboo to discuss. Indeed, most people
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