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It is a very real struggle for many families in our times of dual-income households and the pressures put upon all of us. For far too many of us, our work is the measure of our worth.

My plans over a long life have surely provoked gales of laughter from the Almighty. But as I rode that river of revision and change, I slowly learned something new: I learned how to make God smile with me rather than laughing at me. 

Mark Zuckerberg thinks you don’t have enough friends, so he's here to help ... with robot friends.

The modern idea of a “capstone marriage” is a detrimental concept, both to forming and maintaining marriages.

Shaming, when done in the spirit of genuine concern for the state of someone’s very soul and for the state of our society, isn’t about humiliating; it’s about helping to guide people toward the True, the Good, and the Beautiful.

We needn’t agree with opinions and ideas that flow out of the Vatican. Yet given past encyclicals and their relevance to the culture, all Christians and preservationists of Western culture would do well to pay attention when the pope speaks. 

Maybe she had begun to glimpse the truth that life is the greatest performance of all, and that her chosen and unchosen role was to become, alas, more fully herself. 

Let’s encourage mothers as they go through the daily grind, rather than lecturing them on how many children they have or asking when they’re going to get a real job. Because it’s those women who are raising one of the few hopes we have for the future.

Silence, it seems, isn’t always golden after all.

Whether or not Hollywood dies a slow natural death on its own – as it seems to currently be doing – or if it’s killed off by tariffs as many movie executives fear, it has accomplished a lot in terms of influence over the years … for better or for worse.

“BookTok,” a TikTok term that refers to a community of mostly women who read dark, sexually-explicit fantasy novels, is anything but a return to literacy. 

Real dreams, serious dreams, are never free. They come with a tremendous cost.

The trick – which admittedly, I have yet to master myself – is to be always attuned to the danger posed by political obsessiveness, and to refuse to limit yourself to being a purely “political animal.”

Kipling's funny little poem offers us hope that all the vain prattling about critical theory and relative truth will eventually be exposed, and people will return to the truth “That All is not Gold that Glitters, and Two and Two make Four.”

Too many Americans have made politics their god. When we’re tempted to do likewise, we should remember all the other important beliefs, people, and things in our lives.

Many Americans are seeing the need to move away from the secular neutrality we’ve practiced in recent decades and instead plant the flag through spiritual grounding and Christian beliefs. Doing so is not as hard as we make it out to be.

Frankly, raising children in a society where children are deemed a nuisance and parents naive for having them is a lonely task.

Today’s students receive degrees rather than a true education. And unfortunately, a large number of these students are unaware of the difference.

In the ongoing debate over feminism, let’s remember that feminine virtues are not confined to motherhood, nor are they inhibited by it either.

Remembrance is not only about the past. It’s also about the values we carry forward: what we choose to see, what we decide to question, and how we recognize our place in the larger American story.

Whatever your stage in the graduation process, here are three bits of advice from a slow learner to help you along your way, plus a piece of fantastic news you’ll never hear on CNN or FOX.  

"Adolescence" blames the manosphere for the knife crime of a young teen. But is the rise of screens and technology the real culprit?

Powerful individuals like Randi Weingarten like to tell us that teaching diversity and acceptance is the be-all-end-all of education, and that things like American values will only disrupt such lessons. That may be true. But then, such lessons were never the original goal of schooling in America anyway.

Resist the spirit of the age, and you just may raise the leaders of the next generation.

There’s something about a son feeding and watering a chicken that the dad butchers and the mom cooks that’s about more than aesthetic farmhouse photos on Instagram. It’s about each member of the family having a direct stake in the economic collaboration of home life. 

Love him or loathe him, Americans would agree that President Donald Trump delivers bombshell policies and critiques like no one else, yet on April 13th he sent a message to the American people that left me speechless. 

Let the celebration of America's 250th commence - with a remembrance of the Revolution's first battle.