Culture

Denied a Diploma for Calling Jesus Christ ‘The Way’?11
- Culture, Education, Featured, Religion
- June 5, 2024
Meet Micah Price, the high school senior from Campbell County, Kentucky, who late last month was almost denied his diploma for giving Jesus Christ a shout-out during an off-script commencement speech. Footage of Micah’s speech began circulating on social media last week. “Class, before another word leaves my mouth, I must give the honor, the
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The Uglification of Children Is a Sign of Something Sinister 2
- Family, Culture, MomThink
- June 5, 2024
I saw a teenaged girl at the store recently. She was hardly recognisable as a teenaged girl because of the extreme facial piercings, the Halloween-inspired make-up, the outlandish hairdo, and the dark and foreboding clothes. She looked truly frightening. Several days ago, I saw a different teenaged girl walking home from the bus stop. She
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Something Rotten in Denmark: Israel, ‘Hamlet,’ and the Current Crisis 15
- Culture, Featured, International, Literature
- June 4, 2024
As someone with a background in foreign affairs and English literature, I realized recently that the Israeli-Palestinian conflict is the Hamlet of territorial disputes. While Hamlet is often considered the exemplar of Shakespeare’s corpus, the Israeli-Palestinian conflict is often regarded as the exemplar of land disputes. Like Hamlet, the conflict has garnered much attention over the
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Falling in Love Across the Political Divide 6
- Culture
- June 3, 2024
Growing up in a conservative family in California, I was used to being the odd one out. But that didn’t calm my nerves when the beautiful woman I’d asked to dinner started questioning my beliefs. “So, you’re pretty much a conservative,” she said, eyebrows raised in surprise. “Does that extend to abortion?” I got a
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Christianity, Capitalism, and Colonialism – Nothing To Be Ashamed Of 2
- Culture, Economics, Featured, Religion, Western Civilization
- June 3, 2024
We’ve all heard the rhetorical attacks on Western Civilization—often centered on Christianity, capitalism, or colonialism, and often on all three. Among radical leftists, the consensus is that these elements are evil, but given that each is currently or historically integral to civilization as we know it, it’s worth examining the data to determine whether they
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Is the Pope Right About the Human Heart Being ‘Fundamentally Good’?9
- Culture, Featured, Religion
- May 31, 2024
Is the Pope Catholic? This humorous rhetorical device has long been used to answer a question with an emphatic “yes!” But after comments made by Pope Francis during a recent 60 Minutes interview, a lot of people are now asking the question for real. “We are all fundamentally good,” Pope Francis told Norah O’Donnell during
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