Culture

An Old Guy Takes Some Lessons From ‘An Old-Fashioned Girl’0
- Culture, Family, Featured, History, Literature, MomThink
- July 16, 2026
Why does someone past the Psalmist’s “threescore years and ten” find himself entranced by a 150-year-old novel aimed at adolescents, namely, Louisa May Alcott’s “An Old-Fashioned Girl”? The credit or blame – take your pick – for this infatuation lands on a friend whose passion is for older fiction aimed at young readers, like the
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Grappling With Disappointment and Despair 1
- Culture, Featured, Philosophy
- July 15, 2026
No life lacks disappointment. From the mundane (our favorite sports team loses yet again) to the life-shattering (an unexpected spot on an MRI scan), disappointments punctuate our existence. In politics, religion, finances, relationships, health, we’re forced repeatedly to confront the failure of hopes, the crumbling of visions. “We all break a little when we fall,”
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Your Child Doesn’t Need To Be Entertained 0
- Culture, Family, Featured, MomThink
- July 15, 2026
One constant of my growing-up years was my family’s afternoon “quiet time.” My siblings and I would each be given a separate space in which to play – our room, usually, or a designated spot in the house – and we would amuse ourselves quietly for an hour or two. I loved the days when
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Thank God I’m American 0
- Culture, Featured, Politics, Western Civilization
- July 14, 2026
With the 250th anniversary of our country behind us, I’ve been left with a lot of patriotism. It can be easy to focus on the negatives, but when we fix our gaze on gratitude, the solution to this pessimism is all the more evident. The American Way My small-town home is filled with good people,
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Stay Sane and Save the Republic 1
- Culture, Education, Featured, History, Politics, Western Civilization
- July 13, 2026
I’ve marveled before about how statements of the past can read like today’s headlines, especially those like the following taken from the front flap of Martin L. Gross’ 1997 “The End of Sanity”: “At the University of Pennsylvania, separate dorms have been set up for minorities in the name of racial harmony….” “An apprehended mugger
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How Women Can Help Men Navigate the Dating World 0
- Culture, Family, Featured
- July 13, 2026
Online dating is the most common way couples meet today. One graph circulating on X shows that over 60% of today’s couples meet online. At 13%, meeting through friends is a distant second. As recently as 2000, online was the least common place for couples to meet, with in-person social settings such as bars, workplaces, churches, and
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