Politics

The Trump-Musk Dustup and the Decline of Civility 16
- Culture, Featured, Politics, Uncategorized
- June 11, 2025
The recent Trump-Musk altercation has brought bucketloads of commentary from both the left and the right. Their public feud has paved the way for everyone to leap into this phone-generated fracas of snark, one-liners, and denunciation. They gather round this brawl like kids at a schoolyard fight, with some shouting encouragement, others laughing as punches
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Happy ‘Normal People Month’14
- Culture, Entertainment, Family, Featured, Politics, Uncategorized
- June 5, 2025
For some, June marks the first month of full-blown summer, with all its attendant pool parties, blooming flowers, cookouts, and ice cream. But for progressives, June is the time to remind everyone that you’re a very good person who supports all manner of sexual degeneracy. There’s a fundamental dividing line between these two types of
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Tariffs, Hollywood, and Three Lies We’ve Come to Accept 23
- Culture, Entertainment, Family, Featured, Politics, Uncategorized, Western Civilization
- May 8, 2025
President Donald Trump unleashed another unorthodox idea the other day by floating the concept of tariffs on movies not made in America. Those in the movie industry “are downright apoplectic,” CNN reported, concerned that such an initiative will tank their business. I’m not sure what to make of this idea yet, as I can see
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Making Dreams Come True Is More Than Wishing Upon a Star 25
- Culture, Education, Featured, Philosophy, Politics, Uncategorized
- May 6, 2025
Years ago, a newlywed couple spent a couple nights at the bed-and-breakfast my wife and I operated. Talking with us in the kitchen one afternoon, the husband declared that he intended to be a millionaire by the time he was 30. He was then working in some sort of direct sales outfit in which promotion
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There’s More to Life Than Politics 34
- Culture, Featured, Politics, Uncategorized
- May 5, 2025
“Man,” philosopher Aristotle declared long ago, “is a political animal.” Perhaps too political. A dozen years ago, when Sonny Bunch was the managing editor of “The Washington Free Beacon,” he expressed his frustration with people who are so consumed by politics that they have become incapable of separating it from other aspects of their lives,
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Learning How to Avoid the Mental Illness of Politics 18
- Featured, Politics, Uncategorized
- May 2, 2025
Dr. Thomas Insel is a psychiatrist and neuroscientist who served as Director of the National Institute of Mental Health from 2002-2015. In December 2023 he noted that since the Covid pandemic 38% more Americans were receiving some type of mental health care. “We are facing three distinct crises, which partially overlap,” Insel contends. The first is a
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