Culture

Does America Need a ‘Civic Great Awakening’?0
- Culture
- March 22, 2019
When it comes to the direction of society Americans (surprisingly) agree: things are not getting better. That’s the conclusion one quickly draws from a recent Pew Research report which asks what America will look like in 2050. As the chart below shows, Americans think the country will be less important on a global level, the
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Swimming Upstream in a Turbulent Society 0
- Culture
- March 22, 2019
“Angels can fly because they take themselves lightly.” ~ G.K. Chesterton Recently I read for review Dale Ahlquist’s Knight of The Holy Ghost: A Short History of G.K. Chesterton. Ahlquist, president of The Chesterton Society and one of the world’s experts on all things Chestertonian, packs this slim biography with details about Chesterton’s life, selected quotes—Chesterton
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‘Much Ado about Nothing’: Shakespeare’s Answer to #MeToo 0
- Culture
- March 21, 2019
In one sense, the #MeToo movement seems like an inherently modern event made possible by a perfect storm of social media, sexual revolution, post-Trump outrage, and third-wave feminism. Its accompanying hashtag, #TimesUp, reinforces the idea of timeliness, suggesting that after centuries—if not millennia—of silent suffering under patriarchal oppression, women have finally risen up to hold
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The Ignored Factor in New Zealand’s Mass Shooting 0
- Culture
- March 21, 2019
What turned Brenton Tarrant, the 28-year-old Australian who murdered 50 people at a mosque in Christchurch, New Zealand, last week into a mass killer? We’ll never know for sure. The media has been full of speculation. The suspects include extreme right-wing ideologies, racism, toxic masculinity, resentment of immigrants, first person shooter video games, the internet,
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Five Simple Dating Tips Today’s Young People Have Forgotten 0
- Culture
- March 21, 2019
Professor Kerry Cronin and her famous dating class at Boston College are back in the news. This time it is Elizabeth Bernstein of The Wall Street Journal who unpacks Dr. Cronin’s class, the young Generation Z students who take it, and the reasons why such a course has become oddly necessary. Interestingly, Cronin’s class isn’t
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America Finally Admits Recycling Doesn’t Work 0
- Culture
- March 21, 2019
A couple of years ago, after sending my five-year-old daughter off to school, she came home reciting the same cheerful environmental mantra I was taught in elementary school. “Reduce, reuse, recycle,” she beamed, proud to show off a bit of rote learning. The moral virtue of recycling is rarely questioned in the United States. It
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