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Spiders build webs to capture their prey. The profit-seeking spiders behind our digital world have constructed their web from algorithms rather than silk, but the idea is the same and we are the prey.  

“Great as are the glories of the public school system, it has paid for them heavily in the deadly complacency and stupid uniformity which has been produced from one end of the country to the other."

A few years ago, you couldn't get Disney to flinch on DEI. Now, the new CEO is a theme-parks guy who built his career on giving people a good time, not a good lecture. The market did what the critics couldn't.

“Young Washington” had to clear a pretty low bar to be worth the movie ticket price, yet it managed to wildly clear it.

Virtue coupled with responsibility for oneself and for others is the message of “An Old-Fashioned Girl.” It’s also the formula, as the founders told us, for a good life and a healthy republic.

It’s more than possible that society’s current emphasis on “sensory activities” or planning constant entertainment for children is only serving to inhibit their creativity and overwhelm their parents.

You know you have lived if you have been disappointed. You’ve felt the tearing of the heart-fibers as you’re pulled between what you desired and what took place. You rose up, then fell, but at least you reached.

When we stop loving America, we’ll stop fighting for it.

The study of how we can know things at all is called epistemology, and the fundamental way a person makes sense of the world is through the mind. The mind uses logic to work.

Reading the American founders makes us aware of the significant roles played by self-control and virtue in a republic and its citizenry.

Master the art of the graceful rejection. Open your mind to the possibility that romance could appear in the most unlikely of places. If you’re tired of men only approaching you in pre-approved romantic settings such as dating apps, become more approachable. 

The Amish serve as living icons that human beings still have the ability to refuse to be mastered by what passes for technological progress.

One of the most compelling reasons to read poetry is the way it sharpens our attention to realities that most of us miss.

The secular culture which has dominated the public arena since World War II is beginning to crack, allowing green shoots of Christianity to push through that concrete of conformity. Here are a few examples. 

I feel that the AI question is going to sort itself out the same way every other workplace technology has. We once had whole buildings full of people filling out physical spreadsheets, but those days are virtually all gone. There’s always skepticism around emerging technologies, but eventually they are embraced.

The man who chooses to have a child in spite of struggle, pain, loss, tragedy, injustice, evil, and all the rest offers a testament to a kind of cosmic optimism, an optimism that sometimes flies in the face of appearances. He affirms, “I say yes to the world and to life, with my whole being, come what may.”

Some want to “Make America Great Again,” but to accomplish that worthy goal we must first of all make America virtuous again. 

Throughout our 250 years, America has truly been blessed with brilliant speeches, writings, and orations that move and inspire us. Today is the ideal day to recall some of America’s inspiring words.

Hollywood can’t make a good movie anymore. This is partially because of its own preoccupation with wokeness, which comes at the expense of artful excellence, but it’s also partially a lack of storytelling genius. 

Without a doubt, there is a darkness creeping over the West. But the messages delivered by many speakers and writers fighting for renewal remind us that we’re called to be points of light illuminating and dispelling that darkness.

Religious parents should be ready to platform their faith as the pinnacle of their family life, and their children will follow.

I’m convinced that what moved World Cup visitors had nothing to do with our politics. It was the texture of the place, the friendliness, the abundance, the willingness of strangers to put themselves out for one another. We are so used to it that we forget it isn't the standard everywhere.

Our contemporary age almost seems to chaff at the idea of doing something in which your emotions are not invested. How can you do something out of duty and still “be yourself”?

Books such as “Think and Grow Rich” offer a sobering reminder of the subtle pervasiveness of anti-Christian occult practices and philosophy within mainstream culture.

While the personalization of finding one’s purpose may be a more recent phenomenon, the ancient writings of the philosopher Aristotle and his insights into human nature, human action, and human happiness may help shed light on this issue.

There’s a little bit of heaven in every day if we make room for it.

We would do well to remember the lesson learned by a Prussian aristocrat as he drilled the American army into existence. We've never been a people who accept “oughts” without a good “why.”