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  • Walker Percy’s Diagnosis of American Depression Is Still True

    Walker Percy’s Diagnosis of American Depression Is Still True0

    One of Walker Percy’s central insights into the human condition was that most of the last century’s disastrous ideological movements stemmed from mistaken theories of the self. The most politically problematic of these flow from philosophical materialism. Materialism is the unacknowledged public philosophy of an increasing part of the American population, particularly those who identify as

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  • Why the Hero of “It’s a Wonderful Life” Isn’t George Bailey

    Why the Hero of “It’s a Wonderful Life” Isn’t George Bailey0

    I think I’m not the only person that cries every time I watch “It’s a Wonderful Life.” The movie pulls our heart strings because we can all relate to George Bailey: man has dreams to see the world and do big things, but is instead given a meager life of service. Many reduce the film’s

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  • Santa’s Healthy Tips: Throw Away the Pudding and Eat the Sixpence

    Santa’s Healthy Tips: Throw Away the Pudding and Eat the Sixpence0

    British researchers have claimed success for their tips and techniques to minimize weight gain over Christmas. In a scheme worthy of Ebenezer Scrooge, says the Telegraph, they have issued “a list of the exercise needed to work off festive treats in the hope that revelers will think twice about over-indulging this Christmas.” The team at

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  • The Victorian Story-Teller who Made Christmas Scary

    The Victorian Story-Teller who Made Christmas Scary0

    Following the death of President George H.W. Bush, the resident conservative at The New York Times, Ross Douthat, penned an article bemoaning the end of America’s WASP elite. Douthat argued that our current rulers, although more meritocratic, are a very poor substitute for the cold and old gentry of New England and Virginia. His article created a minor firestorm

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  • Forget Mary Poppins: Three Reasons Real-Life Nannies Are Ruining Childhood

    Forget Mary Poppins: Three Reasons Real-Life Nannies Are Ruining Childhood0

    Unless you’ve been living under a rock, you must have heard that Disney is releasing a new Mary Poppins movie. Just in time for the holiday season, Mary Poppins Returns continues the story of the nanny who is “practically perfect in every way.” She swoops into the home of the Banks family and sorts out

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  • Yet the Whos Sang Merrily

    Yet the Whos Sang Merrily0

    Last Christmas Eve, I was in the ER. My husband was deployed, and I’d been fighting a nasty illness for weeks. Things took a turn for the worse on Christmas Eve, and so my dad drove me to the hospital around 11 o’clock that evening. “This isn’t how Christmas is supposed to be,” I remember

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