Culture

The Root of Our Troubles 0
- Culture
- August 30, 2019
(This story was originally published by Intellectual Takeout on January 28, 2019.) Like you, I’m horrified by the exponential growth in social chaos and totalitarian impulses ravaging our country. It seems as though nothing makes sense, there isn’t a unifying cause tying together the upheaval of American culture. Of course, that’s the nature of chaos,
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Income Inequality Is Not the Enemy 0
- Culture
- August 29, 2019
It’s easy to fall into the trap of comparisons. For myself, it can be very hard to not look at how my friends or acquaintances are doing and not feel that I’m running behind. Houses, cars, paychecks, life state – the temptation to grouse over what I think I don’t have is very strong. Money
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Biologically Male D1 Runner Switches to Women’s Team for Senior Year 0
- Culture
- August 29, 2019
A biologically male runner in the NCAA’s top division is competing in women’s cross country this fall. June Eastwood, who identifies as a transgender woman, will represent the University of Montana at a cross country meet Saturday. Eastwood competed on the men’s track and cross country teams through May 2018, the Bozeman Daily Chronicle reported. “I
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Australian Doctors Are Bullying Parents of Transgender Children 0
- Culture
- August 29, 2019
Parental disenfranchisement in the face of transgender juggernaut has come to Australia. In a recent article in The Weekend Australian (paywall), Bernard Lane provides a terrifying picture of parents’ despair at seeing their children swallowed up by a trans-friendly medical bureaucracy. “Parents feel new gender was a foregone agenda” relates the experience of two couples whose adolescent daughters have
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How to Make the Thrill of Love Return in Marriage 0
- Culture
- August 28, 2019
Social media causes a lot of problems. We all use it. Yet we all love to hate it. Now it’s causing yet another unforeseen problem, The Wall Street Journal reports, namely in the realm of divorce. We’ve all seen a couple’s blossoming love in images shared on social media. But wait a few years, add
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The Difference Between Classical and Traditional Education 6
- Culture
- August 27, 2019
Several years ago I got into a conversation about classical education in which my conversation partner asked, “Isn’t that the kind of education that all those overachieving homeschoolers are into?” I had to laugh. Yes, classical education has that reputation. But the high-achieving nature of classical education hasn’t deterred interest. In fact, classical curricula are proliferating
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