Culture

Education Is Not About Your ‘Lived Reality’0
- Culture
- November 20, 2019
Three years ago, I was smeared before all the students, professors, and staff members of Providence College, where I had taught since 1990. That was some 5,000 people. The authors of the smear were the president of the college, whose final term expires next spring, and the vice president, who will be taking over for
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Bring Back the Family Dinner 0
- Culture
- November 20, 2019
Growing up, my parents put a premium on ensuring we had family dinners together almost every night. These dinners were times to check in on how we kids were doing in school, talk about problems, discuss sports, books, friends, and, starting in high school, politics as well. Although high school sports did cut down on
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The Secular Religion of Socialism 0
- Culture
- November 19, 2019
It’s the end of the world as we know it and we don’t feel fine. We see it in the “how dare you” of Greta Thunberg and in Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez’s lament over colonialism, climate change, and the impact on her future children. It shows up in the condemnation of national sovereignty movements by Pope Francis,
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Triggered: An Experiment 0
- Culture
- November 19, 2019
“When I hear the word culture, I reach for my revolver.” Tonight, for no reason in particular, that line drifted up from the rubbish pit of my brain, that junk yard containing such bits and pieces of poetry learned in elementary school, admonitions from my mother, swimming pool songs from high school, and old Mustang
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Painting Tinseltown Red 0
- Culture
- November 18, 2019
“Guerilla street artist” and “Republican” are two identities not often associated with one another. Yet arguably the most subversive street artist today claims both of those labels while operating in the belly of cultural Marxism, the City of Angels. Just last week, the citizens of Los Angeles awoke to find these posters plastered on bus
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The Origins of the Thought Police – and Why They Scare Us 0
- Culture
- November 18, 2019
There are a lot of unpleasant things in George Orwell’s dystopian novel 1984. Spying screens. Torture and propaganda. Victory Gin and Victory Coffee always sounded particularly dreadful. And there is Winston Smith’s varicose ulcer, apparently a symbol of his humanity (or something), which always seems to be “throbbing.” Gross. None of this sounds very enjoyable,
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