Culture

The Last Bastion: In a World Gone Loco, Your Home and Community Are Your Citadels 1
- Family, Culture
- September 12, 2023
“Peace—that was the other name for home,” wrote American novelist Kathleen Norris. During the past few years, America has gone round the bend, addled by a never-ending tsunami of sound-bites, bad news, and disastrous events: the pandemic, the Afghanistan fiasco, the talk of nuclear war, the battles over race and sex in our schools, the
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What Can You Actually Do About Child Trafficking?6
- Culture
- September 7, 2023
As Sound of Freedom booms across the nation, a spotlight shines on child trafficking. Perhaps we hear a call to fight this sadistic crime. Yet standing against such a large-scale and horrific problem, we can feel powerless or unimportant. What impact can we really have? The truth is our capacity for impact is great. There
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The Loss of Local Living: Implications for Economics and Culture 3
- Culture, Economics
- September 6, 2023
What makes a good city? In his Politics, Aristotle says that one key characteristic of a good city is self-sufficiency. Aquinas, following Aristotle, writes in De Regno: Now there are two ways in which an abundance of foodstuffs can be supplied to a city. The first we have already mentioned, where the soil is so
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A Crisis of Parenting Is the Root Cause of America’s Rapid Secularization 0
- Family, Culture, Religion
- September 6, 2023
Not long ago, I asked a young tradesman to quote on a job. We’ll call him Bruno. We began talking and I mentioned that I was a Catholic. “Religion,” he said, “that’s a good thing.” I asked what his was and he told me that he was a Muslim. “But,” Bruno added. “I wasn’t always
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What Are the News Media for?3
- Culture
- September 5, 2023
What are the news media for? The typical response is that their prime function is dispensing information. They provide us with what we need to know in order to successfully operate in the modern world. Perhaps the media do perform this function, at least partially. Certainly some of what is reported in the daily news
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Old Kindergarten Requirements Suggest Today’s Classrooms Are Too Much, Too Soon 7
- Culture, Education
- September 1, 2023
I received a rather frantic email from a friend when school started last fall. Panicking over the number of parents posting first day of preschool pictures, my friend wondered if she had made a mistake by not sending her four-year-old to school. “When did preschool become so popular?” she asked in dismay. She wasn’t imagining
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