Latest in Culture

“Run” vs. “rebuild” is a false dichotomy. To some extent, we can do both. And that will give us the best chance of overall success.

Perhaps a better admonition than “Be true to yourself” and “Do not be true to yourself” is this: Know the Truth and be truthful to yourself and others as a result.

Sometimes evil is just that, evil. “One Battle After Another,” however, shows us that it is just too easy to flatten our enemies and convince ourselves that we are justified in our actions when we are not. 

When the playing field and the rules are stacked against winning, it’s time to take the ball and find another game.

Religion – particularly Christianity – is at the core of society because it puts us in right relationship with God. And when we’re in right relationship with God, everything else falls into place, namely, our relationships with family, work, community, and government.

Don’t believe the statistics. Have more children than you can afford. 

We can best defend and promote truth as if it were steel encased in the velvet of civility. Once we strip that steel of its covering, we risk becoming as debased as our opponents.

A truly living society is one filled with art, beauty, and thriving families.

If we have no great men who can lead and think and create, then what more is left than for the entire society to become automatons, doing exactly what a few of the remaining, powerful elites tell them to do?

Thus, in the service of true free speech, the freedom to proclaim the truths Kirk defended, those who celebrate his death must be summarily and unceremoniously dismissed. It is not censorship. It is public hygiene.

Unfortunately, in pushing viewers to accept change and abandon tradition, Downton Abbey offers no insight into what values might have enduring worth. Instead, it offers a blanket prescription: discard the old, embrace the new.

Sooner or later, all human beings suffer some sort of calamity that knocks them flat. Each time, we have to choose between staying down or getting back on our feet.

The naysayers believe this won’t stick. It’s up to American pastors to prove them wrong. 

In the wake of Kirk’s assassination, many people are looking for ways they can follow in his footsteps, make a difference, and stand up to those who wanted his message silenced. Adopting a sabbath rest seems like one simple way to start. 

“Anne of Green Gables” is a wholesome work, meaning it’s morally healthy for the soul. Few novels written today, outside of Christian literature, would merit that description.

We can look at this poem, be inspired by it, and do our best to pull ourselves up by our bootstraps. But we can never do it perfectly. We can, however, know the One who did do it perfectly.

Perhaps the question isn’t whether "The Paper" will shape culture, but whether we will let it shape us.

We therefore need to live out and defend our faith with courage, as did Charlie Kirk, teach our children truth and goodness, and hold fast to reality against the falsehoods so prevalent today.

Society is learning how dangerous it is to reject the masculine impulse towards protection.

Only the parents who take heed to these “lost tools of learning” and seek to instill them in their children will be able to adequately prepare their children for leadership and success in adulthood.

If more of us prayed that our fellow Americans might grow in mental, physical, and moral health, odds are we’d do the same, and America would indeed be transformed.   

‘Unknown Number’ is a reminder that parents hold unmatched power in the lives of their children.

The question for the individual, no matter the opinions of the dominant intellectuals of our age, is which way is the path of the good life?

We do well to remember the medieval dictum: “never deny, seldom affirm, always distinguish.”

Grateful prayer is much less natural in the ordinary business and enjoyments of life, whether writing or working or walking or attending the opera. It is even more unnatural in the challenges of life, when we are tempted to wish for another life.

An investment in outdoor time pays big dividends in childhood health and development.

For a self-described feminist, whose main political goal in the last 10 years has been to preserve abortion, Swift’s engagement certainly seems like a self-contradiction.