Culture

How Our Culture of Artificiality Is Destroying Objective Reality 3
- Culture, Featured, Philosophy
- March 22, 2024
I believe it is possible to have common sense “educated” out of you, whether by formal schooling, by one’s culture, or both. When I was studying literature in college, professors would deride any literary interpretation that smelled of an “essentialist” view of morality, gender, race, or reality. What they meant by this fancy term (which
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On the ‘Times’ Machine: A Trip Into ‘The New York Times’ Past 1
- Culture, Featured, History
- March 21, 2024
For my birthday this year, one of my sons gave me an unexpected gift. The brown box, rectangular and less than 2 inches wide, contained another slightly smaller box, black and classy, which in turn contained a complete and original copy of the Thursday, March 1, 1951, New York Times, the newspaper from the day
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Who Is Dividing Americans? And Why?5
- Featured, Culture, Politics
- March 20, 2024
In a podcast interview with Jordan Peterson, country musician and internet sensation Oliver Anthony expressed puzzlement over the divided state of America. “We’ve gotten to a point where it’s easier for us to try find differences and faults in each other instead of similarities,” he began, before offering a corrective: “We all hold much more
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This New Book Reveals How to Escape Our Demographic Doomsday 2
- Family, Culture, MomThink
- March 19, 2024
Anyone who keeps up with demographics knows that birth rates in many countries around the world have now fallen below replacement levels. To maintain a population requires a minimum of 2.1 babies being born per female. But the birth rate in the European Union is today 1.53, in Japan 1.26, and in South Korea only
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Why Dressing Traditionally Matters 10
- Culture, MomThink
- March 18, 2024
It doesn’t take a fashion designer’s sense to notice the decline of American clothing in the last few decades. The neat suits and dresses of yesteryear have been replaced with stretchy athleisure, the hats and coats vanished in favor of sweatshirts and leggings. Quite honestly, I don’t think fashion and clothing is all that important.
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‘The Abolition of Man’: How C.S. Lewis’ Prophecy Is Being Fulfilled 1
- Culture, Featured, Literature
- March 14, 2024
For years now, our culture has waged war over the question of what it means to be a man. To that battlefield, some online pundits have brought the heavy artillery of C.S. Lewis’s 1943 book, The Abolition of Man: “We make men without chests and expect of them virtue and enterprise. We laugh at honor
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