Culture

Reading Gatekeepers – the Parental Responsibility Experts Want You to Forget 5
- Culture, Education, Family, Featured, MomThink, Politics, Uncategorized, Western Civilization
- April 8, 2025
I came across a twofold piece of good news the other day: 1) There is still something about which Americans are almost in complete agreement; 2) People want their children to become avid readers. This information stems from the chart below, gleaned from a recent NPR article which reported that a whopping 98% of respondents
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Learn the Past or Lose the Future 20
- Culture, Education, Family, Featured, Uncategorized
- April 7, 2025
With the 250th birthday party of our Declaration of Independence slated for July 4, 2026, federal, state, and local governments, as well as private organizations, are laying plans for the celebration. America 250, for instance, already has the birthday cake in the oven and candles and party hats at the ready, with several activities either underway
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The Women Dancing Alone on the Road to Miserable 5
- Culture, Family, Featured, Uncategorized
- April 4, 2025
“Why are Liberal Women so Unhappy?” Lucian Conway asks in a recent article. To answer, he begins by reviewing polls revealing the far greater rates of depression and dissatisfaction among liberal women versus their conservative counterparts. Conway also touches on studies demonstrating that young left-wing females also suffer more psychological problems. This issue is larger than
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The 3 Simple Components to Raising an Intelligent Child 1
- Culture, Education, Family, Featured, Uncategorized
- April 2, 2025
A friend of mine recently told me that his daughter got an F on her college paper. “Please don’t tell me she used AI to write it,” I said in disbelief. “Well, no, she didn’t … but everyone else in the class did,” he replied, going on to say that the instructor accidentally lumped his
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April Is National Poetry Month, and We’re All Invited to the Party 6
- Culture, Education, Featured, Literature, Uncategorized
- April 1, 2025
“April is the cruelest month,” begins T. S. Eliot’s poem, “The Waste Land.” Literal-minded folks living in Minnesota in January or Alabama in August might get a few chuckles from that line. Cruelty and chuckles aside, April is also National Poetry Month (NPM). Initiated in 1996 by the Academy of American Poets, “National Poetry Month
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It’s Time to Reclaim America’s Cultural Literacy 7
- Culture, Education, Featured, Uncategorized, Western Civilization
- March 31, 2025
President Donald Trump signed an executive order recently calling for the dismantling of the Department of Education (ED), a process that will still require an act of Congress, leaving his critics aghast and hyperbolically claiming that he is trying to end education itself in America. In fact, he is trying to rescue it. “The experiment
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