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What We Lose With Our Attention Spans 0
- Culture, Featured
- September 12, 2024
Shakespeare’s plays were considered popular entertainment when he first wrote and staged them in the late 16th and early 17th centuries. Often today, the name Shakespeare carries certain high-brow or elitist connotations, but in his own time, Shakespeare wrote for everyone, from the aristocrats of Elizabeth’s court to the tradesmen who took an afternoon off
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Church ‘Marketing’? Sales Tactics Might Diminish Christianity.0
- Culture, Featured, Religion
- September 12, 2024
The New Conference of the Old German Baptist Brethren, a conservative church denomination with 37 congregations nationwide, is struggling to retain its congregants. Young members, especially, are questioning denominational standards, sometimes moving away from their childhood community. The church’s intensely conservative principles seem to play a strong part in driving younger members away. Though church
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What We Misunderstand About the Nazis 5
- Culture, Featured, History
- September 12, 2024
In his insightful essay “We Misunderstood the Nazis” in The Free Press, Matti Friedman argues that the way we learn about the Holocaust has done little to prevent its reoccurrence. Thanks to billion-dollar investments in museums, documentaries, and school curricula, Westerners know all about the “logistics” of National Socialism: Zyklon B, death marches, cruel torture.
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The Psychological Drivers of Radicalism 0
- Culture, Featured
- September 11, 2024
We are living through a meaning crisis. In the UK, a comprehensive survey found that 80 percent of British people think their lives are meaningless. According to CDC data, 10 percent of U.S. students attempted suicide in 2021. As traditional sources of meaning—faith, family, and vocation—fade, nihilism is rising to take their place. At the
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What Role Genes Play in Culture 1
- Culture, Featured, Science
- September 11, 2024
Are all disparities between ethnic groups due to prejudice? From black track athletes to many Americans’ hesitation around spicy food, according to many intellectuals, the disparity is caused by racism. But is this rational—or even biologically accurate? Everyone agrees that there is lots of cultural variety between ethnic groups. What is rarely mentioned is that
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