Entertainment

BookTok and the Destruction of Literature 20
- Culture, Entertainment, Featured, Literature, Uncategorized
- May 7, 2025
The decline in reading in America is a troubling fact, so a social media trend that encourages people to frequent bookstores and read well into the night should be a welcome one, right? Yet “BookTok,” a TikTok term that refers to a community of mostly women who read dark, sexually-explicit fantasy novels, is anything but
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What Netflix’s Hit Show ‘Adolescence’ Gets Wrong About Toxic Masculinity 22
- Culture, Entertainment, Family, Featured, Uncategorized, Western Civilization
- April 25, 2025
If you keep up with the intersection of politics and pop culture like I do, you can’t have missed hearing about a recent British drama that was the most-watched show on Netflix worldwide, and that became a surprising flashpoint of controversy. Podcasters, politicians and pundits from National Public Radio to the Daily Wire have weighed
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Meghan Markle and the Quest to Build a Welcoming Home 41
- Culture, Entertainment, Family, Featured
- March 6, 2025
In an age when Americans are increasingly polarized, there’s something fascinating about the way Meghan Markle – the ex-actress, British duchess, and now Cali-girl extraordinaire – seems to unite us. No matter what poor Markle does, she always seems to leave many Americans with the idea that she’s a clueless pseudo-elite, eager to tell us
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Show Some Class, Cut the Crass 14
- Culture, Entertainment, Family, Featured, Uncategorized
- February 27, 2025
The other day, this headline from Elizabeth Nickson’s Substack appeared on a website I visit daily: “’Give Us Back Our Fu**ing Money.’ How Washington Stole Everything.” Breitbart ran the following headline the same day: “Kyle Busch Threatens Opposing Driver: ‘I’m Gonna Wreck His A**!’” As reported in the article, that was the mildest of the NASCAR driver’s profanities.
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It’s Time for Amish Wisdom to Trump AI 6
- Culture, Entertainment, Featured, Science, Uncategorized, Western Civilization
- February 25, 2025
Recently my Microsoft 365 subscription updated itself to include the Artificial Intelligence (AI) assistant Copilot, which I now can’t seem to remove from my PC. It insistently offers to take over every time I try to write an email or a Word document. I don’t need or want AI to write my emails and articles
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Do You Want a Revolution? Sing.2
- Culture, Entertainment, Featured, Uncategorized
- February 10, 2025
On April 17, 2007, the day after 32 people were killed in the Virginia Tech mass shooting, thousands of students stood in the center of campus for a candlelight vigil. Two trumpeters played “Taps,” while a few of those gathered sang “Amazing Grace.” Apart from that, the crowd was silent. In the aftermath of the tragedy,
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