Culture

Our Identity Crisis 0
- Culture
- November 14, 2018
According to a recent report in The New York Times, Health and Human Services Department officials have been circulating a proposal to define sex. Their memo says, “Sex means a person’s status as male or female based on immutable biological traits identifiable by or before birth.” They add, “The sex listed on a person’s birth
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The Christian Quote that Everyone Takes out of Context 10
- Culture
- November 13, 2018
“[E]very saint has a past, and every sinner has a future.” A quick Google search for that Oscar Wilde quote will suffice to show just how popular it is. It’s been engraved into jewelry, tattooed onto skin, and posted on Pinterest over picturesque backdrops of mountains or train tracks. The meaning is simple and edifying:
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The Mob at Tucker Carlson’s Home Shows How Idealism Can Lead to Evil 0
- Culture
- November 13, 2018
Last week, angry “Smash Racism DC” Antifa protestors chanted obscenities outside the home of Fox News anchor Tucker Carlson: “Racist scumbag, leave town!” They ominously added, “Tucker Carlson, we will fight. We know where you sleep at night.” The mob broke Carlson’s front door. A video captured one protester saying she wished she had a pipe bomb. Most consider
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Widow Explains Why Assisted Suicide Can Be Harder on the Family Than Natural Death 0
- Culture
- November 13, 2018
The journalist wife of a Sky News journalist has written a memoir chronicling her reaction to her husband’s one-way trip to a Swiss suicide clinic. Deborah Binner is bitterly critical of the decision her spouse Simon made to seek assisted suicide after being stricken with a fast-moving form of motor neurone disease. She writes from
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Why the Great War Matters Today 0
- Culture
- November 12, 2018
1918. The eleventh hour of the eleventh day of the eleventh month. That hour, that day, and that month brought an armistice to the First World War, a conflict that proved just the prelude to the bloodiest century in the history of humankind. November 11, 2018 marks the centennial of that armistice. That war and
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This Former Navy SEAL Has a Veterans Day Message for All Americans 0
- Culture
- November 12, 2018
Rep.-elect Dan Crenshaw of Texas appeared on “Saturday Night Live” to give a message of unity and connection this Veterans Day weekend. Crenshaw, a retired lieutenant commander and now Republican congressman-elect for Texas’ 2nd Congressional District, was thrown into the spotlight the weekend prior to Election Day when “SNL” cast member Pete Davidson mocked him for the wounds
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