Culture

Barbarians At The Banquet 0
- Culture
- October 18, 2018
A reader shared this with me, and gave me permission to post it, on the condition that I edit it to prevent others from identifying this school or group. Which I have done: So I was in a long-established, semi-scholarly fraternal organization at an elite American university. I thoroughly enjoyed my time in it, because
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Why Women With Large Families Are Not Stupid 0
- Culture
- October 18, 2018
Have you ever heard the saying, “Don’t mess with Mama,” or even the snarky quip, “If Mama Ain’t Happy, Ain’t Nobody Happy”? If so, it would appear you are ahead of French president Emmanuel Macron. He recently exhibited his ignorance about poking Mama Bear by stating the following at the Gates Foundation Goalkeepers Summit: “I
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Academics Claim Their Non-PC Transgender Research is Being Censored 0
- Culture
- October 17, 2018
Academic publishing is being viewed with increasing skepticism the last several years. This skepticism, of course, is not helped with academic papers about the whiteness of pumpkins, oppressed squirrels, and dog rape, the latter being a hoax to prove that academic publishing has indeed gone off the deep end. If such unique, rather irrelevant topics
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Transgender Bathrooms and the Sexual Assault of Little Girls 0
- Culture
- October 17, 2018
News from our perfectly sane culture: Jazz Jennings turned a dream she had since age 2 into a reality this past June. The I Am Jazz star, who was born male but identifies as female, reflected on her gender confirmation surgery during an interview with ABC News that was filmed nine weeks after the life-changing operation which she called “the
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How to Prepare for Bad News? Good literature and art.0
- Culture
- October 16, 2018
Everyone knows there are good and bad ways to react to bad news, setbacks, sorrows, even tragedy. We can despair or rage; or we can remain calm and persevere, even as we weep bitter tears. But compared with other difficult undertakings in life, reacting to bad news and tragedies can be more vexing because it’s
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A Morning with Big Brother 0
- Culture
- October 16, 2018
I have long since broken the habit of watching television. We don’t have TV in the house and I relish all the good things that fill the time that would otherwise have been wasted in watching it: Conversation; unhurried dinners at the table with my wife and children; conversation; reading books with my daughter; reading
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