About halfway through Frank Furedi’s The War Against the Past, the reader is presented with a selection of words deemed unacceptable by the Local Government Association of England in its Inclusive Language Guide. The words include mum, dad, homeless, second . . . . Continue Reading »
Southerners have a way of burying their actual thoughts under a welter of pleasantries. So it is perhaps worth asking what lies beneath this apparently straightforward morality tale by Russell Moore, the editor-in-chief of Christianity Today. As Moore presents it, Losing Our . . . . Continue Reading »
Christopher Rufo joins the podcast to discuss his new book America’s Cultural Revolution. Continue Reading »
The loss of modesty seems to have fueled nothing but the further sexualization and objectification of the female body. Continue Reading »
American evangelicalism is deeply divided. Some evangelicals have embraced the secular turn toward social justice activism, particularly around race and immigration, accusing others of failing to reckon with the church’s racist past. Others charge evangelical elites with going “woke” and . . . . Continue Reading »
Richard Rodgers and Oscar Hammerstein II, who comprised the most consequential partnership in the history of American musical theater, were brought together by chance. It happened in the early 1940s, when each on his own cottoned to the idea of adapting the play Green Grow the Lilacs into . . . . Continue Reading »
Have you watched the new Netflix drama everyone’s talking about? It’s riveting: It tells the story of Jacob Cohen, a brilliant professor of English literature at an Ivy League university who grows tired of his community’s dogmatic narrow-mindedness. Sick of being unable to express his ideas . . . . Continue Reading »
The road from the polymathic Edward A. Said to today’s leftism is one marked by intellectual decline. Continue Reading »
Meriwether is a sign that there are still a handful of influential people who are not prepared to abandon reality just yet. Continue Reading »
I thank God for Jonathan Sacks and commend him to the God of the spirits of all flesh. Continue Reading »
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