Western Civilization

A Voyage to Nowhere: The Decline of American Culture 0
- Culture, Featured, Literature, Western Civilization
- August 10, 2026
In Paul Clayton’s collection of short stories, “Seeing Sunny Again,” we meet Carl Melcher. It’s the early 1960s, and Carl, who will enter high school in a week or so, has spent the summer hanging out on a beach longing without success to find a girlfriend. On this particular evening, he decides to try his
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How Travel Teaches Humility 0
- Culture, Featured, History, International, Western Civilization
- July 31, 2026
“According to the law of custom, and perhaps of reason,” writes the great historian Edward Gibbon, “foreign travel completes the education of an English gentleman.” Gibbon was writing about the Grand Tour, a tradition among the sons of Britain’s landed gentry and the wealthy classes of Protestant Europe. Before taking up the responsibilities expected of
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Equality’s Envy Problem 0
- Culture, Economics, Featured, Politics, Western Civilization
- July 30, 2026
When the Met Gala committee announced that billionaire Jeff Bezos would co-host the 2026 Gala, activist groups began protesting and several big names refused invitations to the event. New York City’s mayor, democratic socialist Zohran Mamdani, joined the boycott, citing his commitment to creating “affordability” for ordinary New Yorkers (by taxing the richest residents). The irony
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ChatGPT Is the Serpent in the Garden of Eden 0
- Culture, Featured, Science, Western Civilization
- July 28, 2026
A 29-year-old mother committed suicide by walking into oncoming traffic after allegedly being encouraged to do so by ChatGPT, the artificial intelligence chatbot developed by OpenAI. Her family is suing the company, pointing to a dark relationship the troubled woman, Christian Faith Madison, developed with the AI robot. In Madison’s parasocial relationship, as with many others that
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The Arts Are Healthier Than You Think 0
- Culture, Featured, Religion, Western Civilization
- July 27, 2026
In “A Pattern Language,” Christopher Alexander and his co-authors write that, when choosing a building site on a piece of land, most people pick the healthiest, sunniest, most beautiful place they can find – a mountain meadow, a clearing next to a stream. Alexander and his co-authors argue for the opposite. You should build on
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The Case for Great Men 0
- Culture, Featured, Health, Western Civilization
- July 27, 2026
No man is an island, it’s said. On the one hand, I would have to agree. One of the most pernicious intellectual weeds is the myth of the individual, the idea that men arrive in this world as blank slates. Individualism only seems plausible to childless men who have forgotten their parents. Men, in fact,
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