Culture

Retooling Pronouns: Let’s Bring Back the Royal ‘We’0
- Culture
- August 21, 2019
Queen Victoria, so the story goes, sometimes resorted to the royal “we.” “We are not amused,” she might remark – one assumes with a sniff – at some slightly off-color story or inopportune remark. But whom did the queen intend by “we?” The spirit of Prince Albert? Other members of the court? The entire British
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Dilemmas of the 21st-Century American Parent 0
- Culture
- August 21, 2019
Standing in the breeze on a warm spring day at the end of another school year, I listen as a pre-Kindergarten child receives a prize at the elementary school’s yearly awards ceremony. Inwardly, I cringe as I hear “ . . . and she wants to be a YouTuber when she grows up.” My attention
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Why ‘Adult Recess’ Is Becoming a Trend 0
- Culture
- August 21, 2019
You’ve heard of adulting school. It’s where those who grew up in body, but not necessarily in responsibility, go to learn the ropes of changing tires, cooking, and doing laundry. But there’s a flip side to this phenomenon. Apparently, many adults have a craving to be a kid again. Enter “adult recess.” “Adults are reliving
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Delusion, Doublespeak, and Duplicity: Why Language Matters 0
- Culture
- August 20, 2019
Language matters. Let’s start with some quotes from one of the masters of the English language: George Orwell. From his Politics and the English Language: “Political language is designed to make lies sound truthful and murder respectable, and to give an appearance of solidity to pure wind.” And again: “But if thought corrupts language, language
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How Bad Is the Dating Scene in American Churches?1
- Culture
- August 20, 2019
“Where are the good Christian men?” That question is being asked by single Christian women across America. Discussions of this issue inevitably elicit a strong response. Everyone has their own theory about why it seems to be so hard for a single Christian girl to find a good husband. But these theories are usually based
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California’s Ethnic Indoctrination Would Dump the Melting Pot 0
- Culture
- August 20, 2019
California’s state legislature is on the verge of mandating an “ethnic studies” course for students to graduate from high school. Why not? Today in California, K-12 public school student enrollment is only 23 percent “White, not Hispanic.” Based on current immigration and fertility statistics, California’s demographics will eventually become America’s demographics. If America were the melting pot it used
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