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Bring Back Shaming
- Culture, Featured, Literature, Uncategorized, Western Civilization
- May 13, 2025
With the American way of life visibly crumbling, I get a lot of people asking me some form of the question, “But what can I do to save America?” I’ve given various answers to those who ask this, but a new pat answer popped into my mind the other day: Be like Amber de la Motte. If
READ MOREThe spate of recent mass shootings is once again turning us all into experts who wax eloquent on social media. “We can’t have this anymore,” many shout. “It’s time to do something!” “Doing something,” of course, often doubles as code for gun control. But such gun control is right and good, individuals argue, because it
READ MOREAs a young woman in today’s world, I’ve seen how modern conveniences have chipped away at the skills so many used to pride themselves on. I greatly admire the men and women, particularly those among the younger generations, who have taken the time to learn the skills of their forefathers. Certainly, the pioneers didn’t have
READ MOREI consider myself a scholarly expert on the Berenstain Bears. Not because I’ve actually written any scholarly works on the series of books by Stan and Jan Berenstain, but just because I’m an academic and I have read and reread dozens of Berenstain books for more than a decade with first one daughter and now
READ MOREIn my younger years, my mother bought a recording of the musical South Pacific. We kids played it so often that we learned most of the songs by heart. This past week, one of the songs, “Cockeyed Optimist,” as sung by Mitzi Gaynor, kept popping into my head. Here are a few lines: I have
READ MOREIn California, “stranger danger” may be about to acquire a whole new meaning. Forget warning kids. It’s the parents in California who will need to be terrified of strangers if a new bill passes. Snuck into AB 665, legislation ostensibly about extending mental health care to lower-income California youths, is a provision that effectively would
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