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The Myth of Productivity in a Culture Addicted to Motion 0
- Culture, Featured, Health
- January 23, 2026
We’re obsessed with motion. Calendars fill up faster than we can keep track. Notifications never stop. We celebrate people who work insane hours like exhaustion is some kind of badge of honor. Somewhere along the way, just moving became how we measure success. But motion isn’t progress. Being busy is not equal to being productive.
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Are We Too Smart for Our Own Good?0
- Culture, Education, Featured
- January 22, 2026
When I was a kid in Boonville, N.C., I’d occasionally hear a grownup say, “He ain’t got a lick of sense,” meaning someone had just done something really stupid. I’d also hear, “That old boy’s too smart for his own good,” meaning someone with an overabundance of brains unchecked by common sense can bring himself
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MLK Day: The Last Bastion of Boomer Wokism 0
- Culture, Featured, Politics
- January 21, 2026
Martin Luther King Jr.’s famous speech at the Lincoln Memorial during the March on Washington in 1963 sounds innocent enough. Indeed, it sounds so uncontroversial that many conservatives and conservative groups are fond of quoting it as a gotcha against the farthest fringes of recent woke race theory. “I have a dream that my four
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The Shrinking Truth Horizon 0
- Culture, Featured, Philosophy
- January 21, 2026
In a recent article for Plough, Paul Kingsnorth posed the following question: “How long will it be, after all, before AI manipulation means that we cannot trust anything we read, see, or hear online? Months? A year?” Already, AI can generate text, audio, and video that can only barely be distinguished from human-produced content. “Deep fakes” abound.
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‘Socialization’ Depends on Who’s Doing the Socializing 0
- Culture, Education, Family, Featured
- January 20, 2026
I was conversing with an 80-year-old neighbor recently who taught and coached for decades in public schools in New York City and here in Virginia. When I mentioned having taught seminars in literature, history, and Latin to homeschoolers, he instantly brought up socialization, a word I’ve heard linked to homeschoolers since my wife and I
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Pronatalism Without Morals Disintegrates in Real Time 0
- Culture, Family, Featured
- January 20, 2026
Elon Musk, a vocal champion of large families, is now in a custody battle with the most recent mother of his children. Musk is no stranger to such battles. He is estranged from his transgender-identified son who publicly calls him a “pathetic man-child.” He fought a years-long custody battle with one of his wives, the mother of
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