“Xi must be in a panic. His primary form of diplomacy is to intimidate others. If you’re going to have the world’s largest economy, if you’re going to be the most populous society, yeah, you can intimidate others. But if your country is rapidly shrinking, and that’s what’s going to happen to China, then no … Read more
The “woke” movement often specializes in rewriting history. Its followers cast themselves as the long-suffering victims of “structural racism” that are often the figments of their overheated imaginations. They commonly forget that their campaigns usually begin in universities. Usually, those universities were founded and paid for by people that the “wokesters” despise. However, these leftists … Read more
In a world where both the Disney Company and the nation’s elementary schools openly discuss “gender orientation,” it had to happen. A popular video game has added “transgender” characters to its available options. Video games succeed by capturing the interests of players. That is not automatically harmful. However, discovering one’s interest in a video game … Read more
One of Satan’s most effective tools is to present vice as a virtue. It is a trick as old as the Garden of Eden, in which the serpent convinced Eve that eating from the forbidden tree would make the first couple “as gods.” (Gen. 3:5.) The same deception is at work in modern life. One … Read more
Modern academia goes out of its way to shield Muslims from any offense. At the same time, it actively praises acts that offend Christians. The relatively conservative National Association of Scholars reported on the plight of Dr. Erika López Prater. Until December 2022, she was an adjunct professor at Hamline University in St. Paul, Minnesota. … Read more
Among the many causes of the failure of education in America today is the refusal to teach fundamental skills. Modern teaching methods especially target three essential skills—memorization, organization, and objectivity. Of course, these skills build upon the primary foundation of morality that no school can entirely provide. Without morality, education often makes “a bad child … Read more
Before the COVID crisis took center stage, public health was one of many aspects of life that usually occupied the background. The public health bureaucracy’s primary task was to collect information that politicians would use—or ignore. However, a recent article from the Daily Caller focuses on how the Centers for Disease Control (CDC) politicizes its … Read more
Many aging and retired people express deep unhappiness in their relationships with children and grandchildren. Cries of Anguish The depth of that unhappiness was recently expressed in a pair of articles by the conservative pundit Dennis Prager. In the first, Mr. Prager describes a nightmare situation. Order Today: Return to Order: From a Frenzied Economy … Read more
It didn’t take long for Stanford University to make national news from a list of words that it issued in late December. Using the overblown rhetoric that universities love, the list was produced by the “Elimination of Harmful Language Initiative.” The coverage seems to dismay the masters of Stanford, who thought they were doing something … Read more
Modernists like to manipulate words, often “spinning” them into meanings that appear simple but are relatively obscure. For example, consider the modern misuse of the terms like “accompaniment,” “social justice,” or even “woke.” Such is not the case with the architectural style known as “brutalism.” The Architecture of Despair Merriam-Webster defines brutal using the words … Read more
