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Where All the Men Have Gone – and How to Bring All the Men Back
- Culture, Family, Featured, Uncategorized, Western Civilization
- July 9, 2025
Going to class rarely makes me feel tense, but this time—sitting in an upper-level writing ethics course—I was scared to speak up. My class was discussing cultural appropriation: whether it was right for majority-race authors to take on minority-race perspectives in their work. My classmates were almost universally against the idea, saying that a person
READ MOREOn this All Hallows’ Eve, it’s a good time to reflect on classic works of gothic fiction, such as Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein and the relevant warnings they often contain. In addition to providing us with some delightful shivers, Frankenstein also has some serious philosophical points to make that we would do well to consider. As
READ MOREIn 2015, blogger Amanda Russo posted a humorous piece “Why Halloween Is Actually A Pretty Weird Holiday.” As Russo says, on Halloween we encourage our kids to take candy from strangers. We threaten our neighbors with “Trick or Treat.” We spend a chunk of change buying and giving away sugary treats, often to people we
READ MOREIn Walker Percy’s National Book Award–winning novel The Moviegoer, the protagonist, a restless and dislocated stock broker, Binx Bolling, sets out on a search. It’s the eve of his 30th birthday, and his trips to the movies and flings with his various secretaries have failed to satisfy him. Adrift in a world where tradition is
READ MOREI know—even if you’re interested in expanding your understanding of religion, it’s intimidating to pick up a hefty tome like the Bible and start from scratch. It’s complex, it’s confusing, and what’s more, it’s ancient. But digging through concordances and theological treatises isn’t the only way. Sometimes the simplest (and most manageable) way to learn
READ MOREHoward Phillips Lovecraft is, it seems, as popular as ever. “The indie Lovecraftian game Dredge is getting a live-action movie adaptation,” reports Screen Rant. And that’s just one recent example of the horror pioneer’s enduring influence. In this light, it’s worth asking what Lovecraft’s writing promoted ideologically, and to judge what portions of his political thought are
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