Culture

C.S Lewis Explains the Best Way to Handle Change 0
- Culture
- October 1, 2018
With college just a few months ahead of me, I can’t wait for the “best years of my life” that everyone talks about to finally begin. Not to be dramatic, but if college doesn’t live up to the wild expectations that you, society, has ingrained in me, I’m ditching and holding you personally responsible
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Prosecution of Woman Who Rescued Animals Amid NC Hurricane Shows No Good Deed Goes Unpunished 0
- Culture
- October 1, 2018
During Hurricane Florence, a North Carolina woman, Tammie Hedges,graciously took more than two dozen animals into a warehouse that she is converting into an animal shelter. Using supplies purchased with private donations, Hedges offered the space—as part of her nonprofit, no-kill animal shelter, Crazy’s Claws N’ Paws—for animals to stay in while their owners evacuated. Hedges and
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Epitaph for a Dying Culture 0
- Culture
- October 1, 2018
The Kavanaugh confirmation hearings and their endless sequelae have ended up as an epitaph for a spent culture for which its remedies are felt to be worse than its diseases. Think 338 B.C., A.D. 476, 1453, or 1939. The coordinated effort to destroy Brett Kavanaugh’s nomination to the U.S. Supreme Court required the systematic refutation
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Why Atheists Are Not as Rational as Some Like to Think 0
- Culture
- September 28, 2018
Many atheists think that their atheism is the product of rational thinking. They use arguments such as “I don’t believe in God, I believe in science” to explain that evidence and logic, rather than supernatural belief and dogma, underpin their thinking. But just because you believe in evidence-based, scientific research – which is subject to
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Five Things I Noticed About America After Living Abroad 3
- Culture
- September 28, 2018
Last week, I set foot on American soil for the first time in nearly two-and-a-half years. I have lived abroad for most of the past decade, but I’d never been away from my homeland for so long. I’m an American citizen and I love my country dearly. However, thanks to my marriage to a non-American,
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A Former English Professor Explains Why She Homeschools Her Children 0
- Culture
- September 27, 2018
Twenty years ago, Rosaria Champagne Butterfield was an up-and-coming professor of English literature at Syracuse University. While specializing in Critical Theory, she also headed up Syracuse’s Center for Women’s Studies. Through various events, however, Ms. Butterfield left her position at Syracuse and eventually began homeschooling her own children, all of whom are adopted. Given her
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