Culture

The Eco-Gospel According to Saint Greta 0
- Culture
- April 26, 2019
Teenage eco-evangelist Greta Thunberg, who has gone on school-strike to force politicians to ‘panic’ about ‘climate change,’ has addressed the House of Commons and even met the Pope, has proved such a hit among like-minded individuals that she is regarded as a living saint. Environmentalism is fast becoming a religion, and there is even more
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Rumor and Bias, Inaccuracy and Ignorance: The Low State of Journalism 0
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- April 26, 2019
William Tecumseh Sherman, a Civil War general not known for his delicacy of speech, once said, “If I had my choice, I would kill every reporter in the world, but I am sure we would be getting reports from Hell before breakfast.” Like many people today, Sherman detested reporters and journalists. On another occasion, he
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‘8 Mile’ and the Power of Logos 0
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- April 25, 2019
“In the beginning was the Word.” So begins John’s Gospel. In the original Greek, “Word” is logos, a word meaning precise, reasoned speech that brings order out of chaos. Jordan Peterson calls it “the articulated truth.” English poet Samuel Taylor Coleridge calls it “communicative intelligence.” According to Christianity, Jesus, who claimed not just to speak
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Vive La Différence: A Toast to Men and Women 0
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- April 25, 2019
In an online article, “Boys Will Be Boys Except When They Are Girls,” Dr. Brian Joondeph addresses the unfairness of transgender women competing in female sports events. In making his case, he offers some fascinating statistics. Here are some of them: Physical realities of strength and speed don’t come in 60 flavors. Instead, there are only
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Facebook Fascism and the Slippery Slope to Tyranny 0
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- April 25, 2019
Following the recent attack on a mosque in New Zealand by a white supremacist terrorist, I was asked by a national TV network in the UK to appear on a live show to give my perspective as a former white supremacist. (I served two prison sentences for “inciting racial hatred” back in the 1980s.) I
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When Tech Elites Lose Their Religion 0
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- April 25, 2019
Remember the “digital divide”? That’s a media-friendly bit of alliteration, going back to the 1990s, used to describe the unequal distribution of digital access. That is, there were some areas where the Internet and related technologies were scarce — and those areas still exist today. Yet lately we’ve seen the emergence of a second kind of digital
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