Western Civilization

Sydney Sweeney’s Jeans and the Pursuit of Happiness 32
- Culture, Entertainment, Featured, Politics, Uncategorized, Western Civilization
- August 4, 2025
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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Make Peace With Boredom 37
- Culture, Entertainment, Featured, Philosophy, Uncategorized, Western Civilization
- July 31, 2025
In the city of Drachten in the Netherlands a four-way intersection sits in the middle of a town square. Cars, trucks, buses, and bicycles all weave between one other as they navigate the road. A middle-aged Dutchman walks casually into the intersection, talking with a friend. He turns around, walking backwards. He closes his eyes.
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To Have Kids … or Not?21
- Culture, Family, Featured, MomThink, Uncategorized, Western Civilization
- July 28, 2025
Let’s clear up some confusion often conveyed by the media. A headline for an article borrowed from The Epoch Times reads, “US Birth Rate Hits All-Time Low.” The headline for the actual article on The Epoch Times more accurately reads, “Births in US Increase as Fertility Rate Drops.” People often confuse birth rates with fertility rates. The Encyclopedia Britannica
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1,000 Good Books to (Slowly) Consider 50
- Education, Featured, History, Literature, Uncategorized, Western Civilization
- July 14, 2025
I’m a sucker for books about books and book lists. On my shelves are titles like Gladys and Mark Hunt’s “Honey for a Child’s Heart: The Imaginative Use of Books in Family Life”; George and Karen Grant’s “Shelf Life”; and James Mustich’s “1,000 Books to Read Before You Die.” Give me a cup of coffee,
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Where All the Men Have Gone – and How to Bring All the Men Back 31
- Culture, Family, Featured, Uncategorized, Western Civilization
- July 9, 2025
In a recent “New York Times” article titled, “Men, Where Have You Gone? Please Come Back,” Rachel Drucker laments what she calls “a collective shift” in men, a “slow vanishing of presence.” So many single men, she writes, aren’t “sitting across from someone on a Saturday night, trying to connect.” Instead, they “have retreated from
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Jordan Peterson’s Contorted Wrestling With God 21
- Featured, Philosophy, Religion, Uncategorized, Western Civilization
- June 20, 2025
Over the last 10 years, psychologist, author, and online influencer Jordan Peterson has won renown and sparked controversy. His Roman candle ascent to fame began in 2016 when he posted the three-video series, “Professor Against Political Correctness,” followed by his book, “12 Rules for Life,” which has sold more than 10 million copies worldwide. Peterson’s rules include
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