Western Civilization

Restore the American Garage 18
- Culture, Economics, Education, Family, Featured, Uncategorized, Western Civilization
- June 13, 2025
Twitter likes to vilify the large cookie-cutter suburban home with a garage bigger than the house itself. And surely this is in some way a symbol of a decadent, mobile society with little sense of place or community. But the American garage gets too much flack from even those on the right. The house on
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The LA Riots Are Rooted in the Decline of This One Cultural Element 10
- Culture, Featured, Politics, Religion, Uncategorized, Western Civilization
- June 12, 2025
Summer has barely started and already it’s shaping up to be déjà vu of 2020’s Summer of Love. In case we’ve forgotten, the chaos spreading from the Los Angeles riots to other cities around the nation shows once again that we live in a divided culture, one that pits respect for law and order against
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Are Trad Wives Just a Trend?11
- Culture, Family, Featured, MomThink, Uncategorized, Western Civilization
- June 3, 2025
“The trad wives of Gen Z should talk to the trad wives of Gen Boomer about what happens when you hit 40.” This bit of social commentary on X from substacker Rachel Bitecofer has gone viral this week, sparking debate over the merits of being a “trad wife.” Urban Dictionary defines this bit of internet slang as, “Short for
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Against the Capstone Marriage 21
- Culture, Family, Featured, Uncategorized, Western Civilization
- May 14, 2025
“Don’t get married until your ‘brain is fully developed’ – after 25.” “Don’t get married until you ‘travel the world.’” “Don’t get married until you get a master’s degree, then a PhD, then study abroad.” “Don’t get married until you date around and ‘figure out what you want.’” “Don’t get married until you ‘find
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Bring Back Shaming 21
- Culture, Featured, Literature, Uncategorized, Western Civilization
- May 13, 2025
Author Sarah Wilder published an article on this site last week titled, “BookTok and the Destruction of Literature,” lamenting a TikTok trend among mostly female readers who share an obsessive fascination with sexually explicit fantasy novels. “The decline in reading in America is a troubling fact,” notes Wilder, an avid reader of classic literature, “so a social
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Weighing Papal Words With Wisdom and Discernment 20
- Family, History, Religion, Uncategorized, Western Civilization
- May 12, 2025
Habemus papam! We have a pope! Like other Catholics in the U.S. and around the world, I was stunned that the conclave of cardinals assembled in the Sistine Chapel on May 8 chose American Robert Prevost to become the next pope. For years, we’d heard that no American, at least in the foreseeable future, would
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