Culture

DOGE and the Synergy of All Things 12
- Culture, Featured, Politics, Religion
- March 26, 2025
“It was a wicked and wild wind/Blew down the doors to let me in,” goes the Coldplay song “Viva la Vida.” Released in 2008, it includes the reflections of a deposed king as he looks back on his reign, including the time mentioned above, the moment that he took power. The line always interested me
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Craftsmanship, One Secret to Boosting American Happiness?4
- Culture, Featured, Uncategorized
- March 25, 2025
Gallup just released its World Happiness Report and found – for the second year in a row – that the U.S. did not make the list of the top 20 happiest nations. Not many of us will be surprised by that result. In fact, we may even raise our hands and admit, “Yes, that’s me,
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The Kids Are Alright – An Old Guy’s Take on Young Adults 10
- Culture, Family, Featured, Religion, Uncategorized
- March 24, 2025
I’m the old guy. Threescore and ten years, that traditional marker for old age, disappeared from my rearview mirror a while ago. The U.S. Census Bureau defines young adults as those between the ages of 18 and 34. These are the men and women who will soon command our politics, our economy, and our culture.
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Why ‘Popcorn Books’ Are Good for You 16
- Culture, Featured, Literature, Uncategorized
- March 21, 2025
If literature were a food pyramid, a ranking of vitamins and nutrients for the mind and soul, the classics would be the equivalent of steak, eggs, and fish, books high in intellectual protein like Leo Tolstoy’s “War and Peace,” Sigrid Undset’s “Kristin Lavransdatter,” and F. Scott Fitzgerald’s “The Great Gatsby.” Next would come the fruit
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Raising Courageous Kids in an Indecent World 19
- Culture, Education, Family, Featured, Philosophy, Politics, Uncategorized
- March 19, 2025
Not long ago, President Donald Trump signed The Protection of Women and Girls in Sports Act. Surrounded by a bunch of sweet and excited young girls, the action was heralded with fanfare, proclaiming that common sense had returned to America and that the young females among us would no longer be threatened by predators in
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Rehabbing This Old House of the American Republic 31
- Culture, Featured, Uncategorized, Western Civilization
- March 17, 2025
At the February 2025 Alliance for Responsible Citizenship (ARC) conference in London, writer and speaker Douglas Murray called on the 4,000 attendees to replace deconstructionist post-modernism with an age of reconstruction. “The Deconstructionists,” he said, “knew something about how to take things apart, but like children with bicycles had no idea how to put them
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