Culture

1984 in 2024: Orwell Was Right 1
- Culture, Literature
- June 12, 2024
Americans still read George Orwell’s “Nineteen Eighty-Four,” 75 years after it was first published on June 8, 1949. At the time, the year 1984 was far in the future; now it’s 40 years in the past. Yet our present feels more than ever like Orwell’s dystopia. The novel is set on Airstrip One, a totalitarian
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Lincoln’s 1838 Warning: The Threat to Liberty Comes From Inside the House 3
- Culture, History
- June 11, 2024
In 1838, 28-year-old Abraham Lincoln delivered a Lyceum lecture, The Perpetuation of Our Political Institutions. The Lyceum lectures were part of a voluntary adult education movement. Lincoln was a new lawyer and member of the Illinois House of Representatives. It had been just over 60 years since the start of the American Revolution. Yet, Lincoln
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Atlas Shrugs Twice: Individualism Among Incompetency and Injustice 1
- Culture, Politics
- June 10, 2024
One fateful day in March 2020, the incompetent men shut down the world with lockdowns. It was the opposite of the premise in Atlas Shrugged. Who is John Galt? Who cares? The incompetent people could stop the motor of the world too. Atlas shrugs either by disappearing competence, or by an overwhelming mass of incompetence too
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Sports and the Need for Heroism 1
- Culture, Entertainment, Featured
- June 7, 2024
I’ll be the first to acknowledge the corruption that has entered into modern sports, especially at the professional level. We witness overpaid athletes, self-aggrandizement, the cult of the body, political agendas, and obsession with money and the ephemeral admiration of the masses that passes like a firework: a blaze of glory and then darkness. The
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What ’70s Kids Did That Today’s Kids Don’t 2
- Family, Culture, MomThink
- June 7, 2024
Louise Bates Ames is one of the psychologists who popularized the idea of child development milestones. In the late ’70s, she wrote a series of books outlining what kids are capable of at different ages. The one you may have heard about is “Your Six-Year-Old: Loving and Defiant.” That’s thanks to Chicago blogger Christie Whitley,
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‘Shōgun’ Is Awesome—and Shows Why the Second Amendment Is So Important 1
- Culture, Entertainment
- June 6, 2024
My wife and I are in the process of finishing Shōgun, the new FX miniseries on Hulu based on James Clavell’s 1975 book. Shōgun was one of the first books that truly captivated me. I read it for the first time when I was 13 years old, and couldn’t put it down. Set in the early 17th century, Shōgun tells
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