Culture

Identity Politics: Bad for Business, But Good for Management 2
- Economics, Culture
- August 6, 2024
In a market economy, businesses are supposed to pursue profits. Yet in recent years, many big corporations—including Disney, Target, and Bud Light—have become embroiled in costly scandals involving identity politics. As this year’s Pride Month is over, it’s worth asking why so many big businesses take such strong stances on culture war issues, even when
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Does Drinking Dairy Make You Racist? A Milky Mirage of Politicized Academia 3
- Culture, Featured, MomThink, Science
- August 5, 2024
The Daily Mail recently reported that academics at the History of Science Museum in Oxford are going to study the “political nature” of milk. They claim that milk is a “Northern European obsession” that has been forced on other cultures, and the belief that milk is an important part of your diet is a “white
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Are We Living Through an Authority Crisis?6
- Culture, Featured, Politics
- August 2, 2024
The American government has become incredibly powerful, but it’s lost much of its authority. That’s a serious problem: The difference between power and authority is the difference between tyranny and law, mob rule and republicanism, oligarchy and statesmanship. When the dividing line between the two break down, chaos results. For years, Americans have viewed both
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Chronic Absenteeism Is a Problem, But Most Proposed Solutions Miss the Point 1
- Culture, Education, MomThink
- August 1, 2024
Two weeks ago, three unlikely bedfellows joined forces to announce their intention to cut K-12 chronic absenteeism in half by 2029. The right-leaning American Enterprise Institute, the left-leaning Education Trust, and the nonprofit organization Attendance Works revealed their plan in Washington, DC. The coalition hopes to combat chronic absenteeism, defined as students missing 10 percent or more
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Why Karl Marx Hated Jews 1
- Culture, Economics
- July 30, 2024
Let us be wary of the soothing narrative that downplays the seriousness of growing antisemitism. The belief that Jew hate will diminish once the Israel-Hamas war concludes may be misguided. As I go about my daily life, antisemitism is still a thing of the past. Not so on college campuses and in some cities. Like Elon
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Has Hollywood Killed Originality?7
- Culture, Entertainment, Featured
- July 30, 2024
In bygone days, Hollywood was a bastion of original storytelling and imagination. The industry produced new tales that inspired us and transported us into another realm. But those days are long over, and we, the audience, have no choice but to endure the production of stale remakes and banal retellings of old narratives. Hollywood production
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