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- Featured, Culture, Education, Entertainment, Family, Literature, Western Civilization
- October 24, 2025

Something has gone wrong with the way we work. A recent survey by Wondr Health found that most American workers suffer from “time poverty.” Psychologist Mark Travers defines “time poverty” as “experiencing a lack of sufficient time to fulfill responsibilities, pursue interests or engage in activities that contribute to one’s well-being due to various demands on [one’s] time.”
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Are you an oikophile or an oikophobe? Conservative philosopher Roger Scruton (1944-2020) coined these two words from the Greek oikos, meaning household, home, or place. But Scruton broadened this meaning to include culture. Accordingly, oikophiles are those who love their homes and the culture passed down through generations. Oikophobes may love their private homes, but disdain, or even
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U.S. Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. is teaming up with U.S. Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth to start what they’re calling the “Pete and Bobby Challenge.” Anyone who accepts the challenge must complete 50 pull-ups and 100 push-ups in under five minutes. Whether or not the challenge really gains steam and “makes America
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For every version that rolls out, “Jesus Christ Superstar” merits accusations of blasphemy. The latest version, performed in early August at the Hollywood Bowl, is no exception. But this blasphemous rock opera should also receive criticism for its artistic failure. Not surprisingly, it gets resounding praise instead, lauded for its uneven, wild, challenging nature. “It’s
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There’s not a cloud to be seen as I drive with my seven-year-old son – apart from the five unnatural lines left behind by planes in a grid pattern, that is. “Why do people want to control the weather?” my son ponders aloud, looking up at the unnatural lines. Weeks prior, we saw similar trails
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Can it be true? Can a blue jeans advertisement perform like a magician’s top hat, producing irony, racism, sex appeal, body positivity, Nazism, and eugenics all at the same time? Apparently so. Recently, American Eagle jeans featured actress Sydney Sweeney in an ad that caused some heads to explode among our ever vigilant supervisors of
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