Culture

Ora et Labora: Making Work Meaningful 8
- Culture, Education, Featured, Uncategorized
- March 12, 2025
“Be always employed in something useful,” wrote young Benjamin Franklin, promoting the virtue of industriousness and discouraging the wasting of time. “Cut off all unnecessary actions.” Surely, though, he did not intend that we maintain a perpetual busy-ness just for its own sake. After all, as Henry David Thoreau pointed out, “It is not enough
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Good Life, Good Death 11
- Culture, Featured, Religion, Uncategorized, Western Civilization
- March 11, 2025
Another Ash Wednesday has come and gone. On this day, many Christians attend church, where a priest or a pastor marks their foreheads with a cross made of ashes, saying, “Repent, and believe in the Gospels,” or more traditionally, “Remember that you are dust, and to dust you shall return.” The latter injunction, which derives
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Is Marriage No Longer Worth It for Men?15
- Culture, Family, Featured, Uncategorized, Western Civilization
- March 10, 2025
Recently, I dated a man a few times who, as I quickly learned, was opposed to marriage. He pointed out that the legal binding of a marriage puts the man in a very vulnerable position, one in which if – or he would say when – a divorce occurs, his home, children, and livelihood are
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Charity Begins at Home: The Case of Mrs. Jellyby vs. JD Vance 4
- Culture, Family, Featured, Politics, Religion, Uncategorized
- March 7, 2025
In Charles Dickens’ “Bleak House,” we encounter Mrs. Jellyby, a fanatical, crusading philanthropist who by correspondence and personal contacts hopes to bring education and trade to a remote part of Africa. Mrs. Jellyby spends much of her time dictating letters and memorandum to a “jaded and unhealthy-looking” girl who “seemed to have no article of
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Meghan Markle and the Quest to Build a Welcoming Home 41
- Culture, Entertainment, Family, Featured
- March 6, 2025
In an age when Americans are increasingly polarized, there’s something fascinating about the way Meghan Markle – the ex-actress, British duchess, and now Cali-girl extraordinaire – seems to unite us. No matter what poor Markle does, she always seems to leave many Americans with the idea that she’s a clueless pseudo-elite, eager to tell us
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Is Christianity Making a Comeback?5
- Culture, Featured, Religion, Uncategorized
- March 4, 2025
It’s not news to report that Christianity in America has been in alarming decline for many years – even more dramatically so in Europe, a realm which once was known as Christendom. But a new Pew Research Center poll offers a heartening glimmer of hope and change. The decline of Christian America is indicative of
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