Western Civilization

It’s Time to Reclaim America’s Cultural Literacy 10
- Culture, Education, Featured, Uncategorized, Western Civilization
- March 31, 2025
President Donald Trump signed an executive order recently calling for the dismantling of the Department of Education (ED), a process that will still require an act of Congress, leaving his critics aghast and hyperbolically claiming that he is trying to end education itself in America. In fact, he is trying to rescue it. “The experiment
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DEI for Guys Is Not the Answer to Rebuilding Masculinity 17
- Culture, Education, Family, Featured, Politics, Uncategorized, Western Civilization
- March 27, 2025
Think DEI programs are on their way out the door? Think again. They seem to be alive and well, but not for women and minorities. This time they’re for men and boys. Reeling from their recent massive losses with the male sex, the Democratic Party is seeking to regain ground in this key demographic with
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Rehabbing This Old House of the American Republic 43
- Culture, Featured, Uncategorized, Western Civilization
- March 17, 2025
At the February 2025 Alliance for Responsible Citizenship (ARC) conference in London, writer and speaker Douglas Murray called on the 4,000 attendees to replace deconstructionist post-modernism with an age of reconstruction. “The Deconstructionists,” he said, “knew something about how to take things apart, but like children with bicycles had no idea how to put them
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What Makes for Beauty in Architecture?69
- Culture, Featured, History, Uncategorized, Western Civilization
- March 13, 2025
I spent the first few years of my life in the West End neighborhood of Birmingham, Ala. My mom would routinely pile us kids into the old Ford, and off we would go downtown, observing very old, very beautiful buildings all over the city. These glimpses of structural beauty were deeply stamped upon me –
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Good Life, Good Death 10
- Culture, Featured, Religion, Uncategorized, Western Civilization
- March 11, 2025
Another Ash Wednesday has come and gone. On this day, many Christians attend church, where a priest or a pastor marks their foreheads with a cross made of ashes, saying, “Repent, and believe in the Gospels,” or more traditionally, “Remember that you are dust, and to dust you shall return.” The latter injunction, which derives
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Is Marriage No Longer Worth It for Men?12
- Culture, Family, Featured, Uncategorized, Western Civilization
- March 10, 2025
Recently, I dated a man a few times who, as I quickly learned, was opposed to marriage. He pointed out that the legal binding of a marriage puts the man in a very vulnerable position, one in which if – or he would say when – a divorce occurs, his home, children, and livelihood are
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