Boston’s MLK Statue Is a Woke Embarrassment
A $10 million fail unworthy of its subject.
Culture
Children of the Snake
Epstein’s victims are a metaphor for all of us.
Advent
Our word advent comes from the Latin, and it’s made up of two parts. But what you may not realize is its connection to adventure.
Memory
We are subject to time, yet there is this God-given difference between us and all other creatures: we transcend time by memory.
Leftists Have Become the Toothless Rednecks in ‘Deliverance’
The end of the aspirational sectors of culture—highbrow, middlebrow, and lowbrow—has come, with a kind of ubiquitous, bland, liberal populism to replace it.
Amusing Ourselves to Death
A latter-day prophet predicted the triumph of trivia.
The Sin of Margaret Atwood
Is it any wonder two generations of young women are genuinely fearful that the dystopian world of Gilead is upon us?
Recollecting the ‘Permanent Things’ in My Back Pages
Sometimes familiarity breeds not contempt but comfort, especially when one accepts the eternal verity:
“Ashes to ashes, dust to dust.”
“Ashes to ashes, dust to dust.”
The Endless Summer
For conservatives, the early to mid 1960s may represent the last time America was the way it should be and therefore could be—Again.
Haunter of Old Places
You can love more devotedly, you can choose a worthier object of your love, but you cannot improve upon the thing itself.
Our ‘High Noon’ Has Come
We learn by our mistakes. But if we deny them, we learn nothing.
Can Western Cultural Literacy Make a Comeback?
Culture should not merely be passive entertainment, but an active (and often edifying) journey toward a better understanding of what it means to be human.
Sing, America!
Must everyone cease to sing, because the village atheist is hoarse?
Where It Begins
Destroying the books has always been a key to destroying a culture. We must save our own culture before we save anyone else’s.
Notre-Dame de Paris and the Spiritual Rooms for Our Souls
Are we breathing life into the exterior and interior spaces of our world, or are we mindlessly passing through the burdensome mediocrity of our alienating times?
Pushing Through the Decadence
The forces of decadence that Jacques Barzun described are formidably potent. But decadence is no more inevitable than progress.
Resisting the Totalitarian Power of Politicization
The child who reads and cherishes The Lord of the Rings will have more of substance to say about how we should live than will the child brought up on political doggerel.
Washington D.C. Replaces Columbus Day with ‘Indigenous Peoples’ Day’
The nation’s capital has passed a bill to rename the history holiday Columbus Day as “Indigenous Peoples’ Day,” ABC reports. The legislation, named the “Indigenous […]
Canceling the Joker
The truth is the critics just don’t want the Joker to be a disenfranchised white guy. If the villain was a woman or belonged to a racial minority, the film would be celebrated.
The Cruel Joke of Hollywood’s Sanctimony is Seen in Reaction to ‘Joker’
Whether “Joker” is good art or not, few know at this point. But one thing is sure: whether it’s a flop or it outearns “The Avengers,” it’s still just a movie.