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Will we be looked at as a people who fell short, lost their way, and wasted and wore away their cultural heritage? Will future peoples look at an American penny the way I look at my Roman coins?

For nearly 80 years, conservatives have warned about the ideological capture of American higher education. And yet, each successive generation of conservative leaders continues to attend the same establishment schools, only to denounce them upon graduation.

Is it even possible to pass along neutral principles to children, devoid of bias or personal viewpoints? Hardly.

Satan isn’t hiding out in the things that already make us uneasy. He’s working in the places where we’ve stopped asking questions.

Whatever readers think of my letter’s philosophy, style, or advice, my hope is that you’ll write similar letters to your own offspring, your word-gift of life lessons and encouragement intended to inspire them in good times and bad.  

In the end, pessimism shouldn’t prevent us from gratitude for the myriad ways that society is quietly improving in important ways. 

“The Pitt” shows nuance and depth in its realistic presentations of traumatic medical treatment. Fortunately, it also succinctly and accurately provides a foundational concept in the ethical application of those treatments.

What do our sweats, ripped jeans, and skimpy shorts and shirts say about us? Do they signal that we are a “product” that is clean, neat, alert, responsible, and quality material worthy of advancement … or do they signal that we are dumpy slobs, more interested in lazing through life and getting by with minimal effort?

Life is an adventure. Embrace that idea, and we become more fully human. And if enough of us become more fully human, we’ll see an explosion in the birthrate.  

Waters’ solution to the dilemma of the modern woman is neither to become a shrinking violet or a masculine girl-boss. Her solution is unapologetic in its traditionalism, encouraging women to seek out a biblical vision of womanhood that will leave them strong in their own femininity. 

At some point, irony stopped being a tool with which to diagnose the culture and became the personality of our culture. It crept into our conversations, our art, our politics, and eventually into the way we talk to those we love.

If evil cannot exist without good, then evil cannot be eternal. It also cannot be all-powerful nor the foundation for existence itself. Only Goodness is eternal, all-powerful, and the foundation of existence: what Christians know as “God.”

Let’s keep politics in perspective and leave craxy to the craxies.

As someone who has never used AI and avoids its output whenever possible, I feel like I have superpowers. I can actually read a book and understand it. I can remember a state capital without asking ChatGPT. I can sit in one spot and slave over a poem or essay without asking a robot to do it for me.

Where prudence prompts intentional motion in life, skepticism is a hamster wheel of pointless running until discouragement wins out.

A steady diet of twaddle, in an individual’s life or in that of a culture, does shape consumption and therefore souls. It is not the existence of twaddle but rather its ubiquity that sets our culture on a path towards porn and other dark ventures.  

The tradwife trend runs counter to the feminist vision by offering an alternate aesthetic that is even more attractive, yet far more rooted in reality.

There are many non-religious benefits to reading the Bible cover-to-cover that many fail to realize, benefits which the American founders readily acknowledge in their writings.

If you want to become truly beautiful, then quit thinking so much about yourself and devote your attention to others.

By our little efforts at hospitality, perhaps we can atone a little for that gigantic injustice, the inhospitality of the cosmos when its Creator wished to be its guest.

The work of motherhood is nearly always selfless, but it is only thankless if communities, churches, and husbands don’t give the encouragement mothers need.

What parents should seek to mint for their children is a coin featuring liberty on one side and responsibility on the other. Give that piece of silver to the kids, and you’ll have given them a fortune.  

The reality is, those who throw around such names do so at the expense of their own reputations, for name-calling is usually a sign that a person can’t hold their own in a factual debate or argument.

The world has always run amok. The wise person is simply the one who stops being shocked by it.

Find some fiction you love and admire, young men, and you’ll have more than a book. You’ll have a friend for life. 

But even though everyone has an opinion about who is “good” and who is “evil,” most of us probably wouldn’t be able to define “goodness.”

The inhabitant of the integrated city lives a more integrated and therefore a more human life. Such is the power of architecture and design. Urban design should foster this kind of authentic living, not inhibit it.