The Culture

Amen to this! (hat tip: Steffens and Stuart Buck)  Well, sort of. I remember a Bible class recently that was filled with talk about how we need to understand that adolescence is extending beyond the teen years into the mid-20s.  No doubt we do need to understand these trends, but there seemed to be […]

From The Guardian: Relativism has made liberal openness appear weak, empty and repugnant compared with the clarity of dogma[.] …The clash of civilisations is happening not between Islam and the west, as we are often led to believe, but between pragmatic relativism and dogmatic certainty. * * * What was shocking when Nietzsche […]

I hadn’t thought of Cristina Hoff-Sommers in years before mentioning her in a post last week. But today I ran across an article of hers on the idiocy of today’s feminist movement’s blind hatred of America and it’s seeming acceptance of Muslim cruelty to women around the world.

Soon after the 9/11 terrorist attacks, […]

The “breakdown of marriage in the United States threatens America’s future. It is turning us into a nation of separate and unequal families.” That’s the premise of Manhattan Institute marriage and family scholar Kay Hymowitz’s new book, Marriage and Caste in America: Separate and Unequal Families in a Post-Marital Age. She recently took some […]

O.k., I realize that posting once every month or two isn’t exactly the way to maintain a faithful following. What can I say? Sometimes there’s nothing worth writing about and sometimes there is but we don’t have time to do it.

But this item from The Corner caught my eye today and I wanted […]

We awoke this morning to the news that Steve Irwin, founder of Australia Zoo and television personality, has died. Our son has been a huge fan of the “Crocodile Hunter” for several years and one day hopes to go to Australia and to Australia Zoo.

What can you say about this exuberant man? […]

Mona Charen points out that the latest “breakthrough” in stem cell research isn’t actually what is being reported. What I heard on the local radio yesterday is that scientists had discovered a way to remove a single cell from a developing embryo without causing any damage to the embryo. Quoting Robby George:

First, the […]

Mark Steyn, is definitely my favorite Canadian-born, gun-toting, half-Jewish, half-Catholic, confirmed Anglican, practicing Baptist journalist living in New Hampshire. No wonder he extols the virtues of Western pluralism. In this amazing speech, he illustrates why some cultures are better than others, no matter what the multicultural fetishists say:

Two hundred years […]

Read Strongest Dad in the World, from Sports Illustrated, by Rick Reilly:

Eighty-five times he’s pushed his disabled son, Rick, 26.2 miles in marathons. Eight times he’s not only pushed him 26.2 miles in a wheelchair but also towed him 2.4 miles in a dinghy while swimming and pedaled him 112 miles in a […]

Scary? Creepy? Disturbing? Not at all. It’s a feel-good family frolic:

The audience is introduced to Jack Torrance, driving up to the Overlook Hotel in the mountains of Colorado, to be interviewed for the position of caretaker for the winter. The hotel is completely blocked off by winter snows […]