Culture

Gluten-Sensitive Liberals? An Investigation of This Food Fad 0
- Culture
- November 22, 2019
Sitting down for a family feast, do you need to gird yourself for battle in the ongoing sociopolitical culture war? In today’s hyperpartisan United States, common food products have become proxies for conservative and liberal values. Meat-eating Republicans versus quinoa-loving Democrats. Imported-beer liberals versus domestic-beer conservatives. Nothing showcases this proxy war better than the rise
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How to Ensure Productive Thanksgiving Debates 0
- Culture
- November 22, 2019
We all have ideas we defend religiously, especially in a debate with others. There’s the passionate friend who sees capitalist abuses in the homeless man on the street. Or the neighbor who sees any defense of national borders as an assault on international human dignity. Perhaps you’ve even been that person yourself. But most ideas
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The Deep State: The Headless Fourth Branch of Government 1
- Culture
- November 22, 2019
School children learn that there are three branches of government: the legislative, executive, and judicial. In actual practice, however, there are four branches of government. The fourth is what for decades now has been called a “headless fourth branch of government,” the administrative state. As early as 1937, in a “Report of the President’s Committee on Administrative
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“OK Boomer” Is the First Salvo of a Larger Generational Showdown 0
- Culture
- November 21, 2019
According to Smithsonian Magazine, an Assyrian clay tablet from 2800 B.C. bears a gloomy inscription describing how the Assyrian youth were ruining civilization. “Our Earth is degenerate in these later days; there are signs that the world is speedily coming to an end; bribery and corruption are common; children no longer obey their parents,” the
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I Left England Because of Socialized Medicine. My Life Depended on It.0
- Culture
- November 21, 2019
Imagine strapping your infant child into a car seat, only to see his body suddenly jerk forward or backward, arms and legs stiffening, and eyes rolling back in the head. Alarm quickly turns to panic, which turns to frantic weaving through traffic to get to the hospital. Within minutes of arriving, the child is rushed
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Why Do Older Women Criticize Young Mothers?0
- Culture
- November 21, 2019
Intergenerational feuding seems to be inherent to human nature. Older people complain about “kids these days.” Younger people, in turn, believe their elders don’t grasp the realities of modern life. A recent study traced the earliest recorded complaint about the younger generation’s supposed laziness and lack of respect to the year 624 BC. The contemporary iteration of
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