Culture

The Myth of the Pagan Origins of Easter (Jesus of Nazareth’s Resurrection)3
- Culture, Featured, Religion
- March 29, 2024
You may not get any chocolate bunnies this Easter, but you’re bound to stumble across an article or meme suggesting that the story of Jesus Christ’s resurrection from the dead is just a reincarnation of some pagan myth. Whether it’s Ishtar, Osiris, or Attis, these claims are tantalizing but devoid of scholarly content–much like the
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Why I Refuse Automated Digital Services, Streaming, and Subscriptions 0
- Culture
- March 28, 2024
Netflix has about 260 million subscribers around the world. Disney+ boasts 111.3 million subscribers, and Amazon Prime has millions of viewers to match. Across such platforms, Americans spend, on average, over three hours a day—or over 21 hours a week—streaming online content. At the same time, over 60 percent of adults in America use digital
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What Ireland Can Teach the World About the Importance of Family 3
- Culture, Family, Featured, International, MomThink
- March 27, 2024
Earlier this month, Irish voters delivered a stunning ballot-box upset by voting down two anti-family measures that had been heavily promoted by the ruling center-right government and enjoyed widespread support in the media and among the chattering class. Conducted via a double referendum, the two proposals sought to alter Ireland’s constitution to diminish the value
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Wendell Berry: What We Lose When Small-Town America Collapses (And How to Recover It)4
- Culture, Literature
- March 26, 2024
What does America risk losing with the loss of small, rural communities? Writer and farmer Wendell Berry has spent much of his writing career contemplating this question. One way he has approached it is through his novels and short stories, and his fictional town of Port William, Kentucky, typifies all that is best about small-town
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Science in a World Built for Alchemy 0
- Science, Culture
- March 25, 2024
I like to think of myself as a logician. A rational, critical thinker ready to discard any idea when new information presents itself. Behind the facade though, there was always a passing interest in the arts. Literature in particular, but I still remember the first time I sat in a room with an orchestra playing.
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How Our Culture of Artificiality Is Destroying Objective Reality 3
- Culture, Featured, Philosophy
- March 22, 2024
I believe it is possible to have common sense “educated” out of you, whether by formal schooling, by one’s culture, or both. When I was studying literature in college, professors would deride any literary interpretation that smelled of an “essentialist” view of morality, gender, race, or reality. What they meant by this fancy term (which
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