Culture

What Public Schools Get Wrong About Diversity 0
- Culture
- September 5, 2019
Diversity. It’s one of the buzzwords of this generation. Forget sameness, everyone must be different, while at the same time inclusive. It’s that simple. It sounds like utopia, doesn’t it? A utopia promoted by institutions of all stripes, not the least of which are America’s public schools. But what if our promotion of diversity is
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Why Difficult Video Games Are Best 0
- Culture
- September 4, 2019
I was recently at a brunch that included couples with young children when the hostess pulled out an attractive diversion for the kids: a mini-NES. To her surprise, all the 30-something fathers were just as excited as the kids, and the mass of young and old video game enthusiasts crowded around, offering tips to set
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Batman vs. Modern Art 0
- Culture
- September 4, 2019
The secret’s out. My dual identity has been discovered. By day, I spend my time in the company of serious writers and thinkers, such as Homer, Dante, Shakespeare, and Thomas Aquinas, but by night I sit down with my eleven-year-old daughter to watch episodes of Batman, the 1960s television series starring Adam West and Burt Ward
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Neat Freak No More: Some Thoughts on Housekeeping 2
- Culture
- September 4, 2019
Yesterday morning I walked through the kitchen of the house where I am living and, like the Apostle Paul, the scales fell from my eyes. My scales disappeared when I recognized the kitchen for the untidy pit it had become. For well over an hour I washed the dishes I’d neglected for two days, put
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Incidentally White 0
- Culture
- September 3, 2019
“[T]o speak in general terms of the prototypical Southern conservative we would say first of all that he was not an alienated man.”—M.E. Bradford, “Where We Were Born and Raised” White nationalism has long existed on the borderlands of disaffected conservatism. Among its several denominations is the movement known as identitarianism, which combines the ideology of white nationalism with language
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Silicon Valley Wants to Read Your Mind – That’s a Problem 0
- Culture
- September 3, 2019
Not content with monitoring almost everything you do online, Facebook now wants to read your mind as well. The social media giant recently announced a breakthrough in its plan to create a device that reads people’s brainwaves to allow them to type just by thinking. And Elon Musk wants to go even further. One of
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