Culture

You Married the ‘Wrong One’ – Now What?0
- Culture
- March 22, 2018
Kate Emory married “the wrong man”, and she thinks she’s not alone. A recent survey “revealed that a third of married Britons have regrets about their marriage, 1.4 million admit that they married the wrong person, while more than 1.2 million are only staying in it for the children and would soon tick every single box.”
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Leo Tolstoy Believed Life Was Meaningless. This Changed His Mind.0
- Culture
- March 22, 2018
A person, 50 years old, is in full blown mid-life crisis. Even with fame, fortune, and a loving family, life is meaningless. This was Leo Tolstoy. Having written War and Peace and Anna Karenina, he was one of the most celebrated authors in the history of mankind. Yet, Leo Tolstoy found himself immersed in despair.
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Professional Matchmaking is on the Rise. Why?0
- Culture
- March 21, 2018
The other day, Pew Research compiled a bunch of statistics on various life aspects and used them to compare recent generations to each other. Not surprisingly, millennials are vastly different than those in their parents’ or grandparents’ generations. This is particularly true in the marriage category. As Pew explains, “When members of the Silent Generation
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8 Times Law-Abiding Citizens Saved Lives With an AR-15 0
- Culture
- March 21, 2018
“Why would any law-abiding citizen need an AR-15?” This question has been a favorite talking point of gun control activists in recent months, grating the ears of many lawful owners of the popular semi-automatic rifle. Never mind that rifles of any kind account for only a fraction of gun deaths every year, or that some
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Romanticism Is Killing Marriage. Is it Time to Rethink Some Things?0
- Culture
- March 21, 2018
Today, arranged marriages are almost unheard of in the U.S. and Europe, though it remains a fairly common practice in many Eastern countries, including India, China, and Japan. To the modern mind, the very notion of an arranged marriage is somewhat antithetical to both our ideological values (individual choice) and romantic concepts (“true love”). For
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A History of Loneliness 0
- Culture
- March 21, 2018
Is loneliness our modern malaise? Former U.S. Surgeon General Vivek Murthy says the most common pathology he saw during his years of service “was not heart disease or diabetes; it was loneliness.” Chronic loneliness, some say, is like “smoking 15 cigarettes a day.” It “kills more people than obesity.” Because loneliness is now considered a
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