Culture

Jordan Peterson and the Unknown God 0
- Culture
- December 7, 2018
“All the Athenians and strangers which were there spent their time in nothing else, but either to tell, or to hear some new thing.”—Acts 17:21 To some, Jordan Peterson is a breath of fresh air. To others, a guru. Many find him and his ideas to be dangerous. Still others see him as a sign of
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The Brilliant Reason This School Decided to ‘Cancel’ Christmas 0
- Culture
- December 7, 2018
It seems there’s always some Grinch that wants to ruin Christmas every year. This year the Grinch award seemed ready to go to a British school in Yorkshire whose teachers told students that Christmas celebrations would be banned from its halls. According to The Guardian, that decree meant “‘no cards, no parties, no gifts and
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Maybe You’re A Witch 0
- Culture
- December 6, 2018
Those who seek to control and to destroy like to play with words. The great Athenian sculptor Phidias was persecuted by those who whimsically used the words “embezzlement” and “impiety.” Joan d’Arc was burnt and Galileo prosecuted via an eternally elastic concept of “heresy.” The witch hysteria relied on a protean concept of “evidence.” The
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Moralitis: The Cultural Virus That Keeps Reason at Bay 0
- Culture
- December 6, 2018
Common sense has a bad name. Among the educated middle class, it has connotations with the backwardness of provincial folk, reverence to tradition, and outmoded mores on gender and cultural diversity. That so many people continue to think in this way is no validation, because the intelligentsia derides the very notion of ‘normal’. Our culture
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Pediatricians Offer 3 Simple Guidelines for Toy-Buying Parents 0
- Culture
- December 6, 2018
We’ve all seen it happen. Pick out the toy you only dreamed about as a child, wrap it up, watch a little tot open it, and… see him start playing with the box. It’s an old cliché that’s so true it’s laughable. So how can we avoid such a scenario and ensure that the children
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Jane Austen Forever!0
- Culture
- December 5, 2018
I’ve been reading Jane Austen’s Pride and Prejudice to my ten-year-old daughter. I admit it was immediately motivated by my desire to watch with her the BBC mini-series, which the book was clearly written in order for them to produce one day. There’s a rule here that they have to do the book before they do the
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