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‘Toy Story 5’ Serves Up Pointlessness Over Nostalgia 0
- Entertainment, Family, Featured, Uncategorized
- July 6, 2026
Hollywood can’t make a good movie anymore. This is partially because of its own preoccupation with wokeness, which comes at the expense of artful excellence, but it’s also partially a lack of storytelling genius. The only movies people get really excited to watch these days are smut (“Wuthering Heights,” “The Housemaid”), viral sensations (“It Ends
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Vice and Virtue in the American Republic 0
- Culture, Featured, Uncategorized, Western Civilization
- July 6, 2026
Recently I watched my two-and-a-half-year-old granddaughter at play. She toddled up and down the side porch, stopping to eat a bite of the apple slice her mother had given her, fingering some Play-Mobile figurines, pausing to gaze out across the small side yard. She’s a bright kid with a large vocabulary, compliments of her seven
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The American Tendency to Put ‘Why’ Before ‘Ought’0
- Featured, Uncategorized
- June 29, 2026
It’s sort of odd that Americans remember Valley Forge. Given its high profile, one might think it was the site of a major battle. Yet it wasn’t. We may think we remember it because of the hardships troops faced in the winter encampment. In truth, while disease was rampant, it is likely that no one
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How Solitude Builds Human Connection 0
- Entertainment, Philosophy, Religion, Uncategorized, Western Civilization
- May 15, 2026
“If we are unable to be alone, we will be more lonely,” writes Sherry Turkle in “Reclaiming Conversation.” This paradoxical statement strikes us as odd at first glance, but it contains a germ of great wisdom. Our capacity to remain peacefully introspective – at least sometimes – helps us be more truly present and available
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Cicero’s 5 Steps to a Good Conversation 0
- Uncategorized, Culture, Featured, History, Philosophy, Western Civilization
- May 13, 2026
We’ve all been there. We’re hanging out with friends, mingling after church, or attending a networking event, yet despite our best efforts, conversation falls flat. This can happen for many reasons, but generally, the two primary issues are either that our conversation partners drop the ball, or that we ourselves can’t think of anything to
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The Quiet Damage of Gossip 0
- Culture, Featured, Religion, Uncategorized
- April 13, 2026
Something has made itself completely at home in American culture. It doesn’t look dangerous. It doesn’t usually feel malicious. Most of the time, it seems like normal conversation. And we’ve all participated in it more than we’d like to admit. It’s gossip. If I’m being charitable, I don’t believe most people gossip out of cruelty.
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