According to a recent Wall Street Journal article, many successful young people feel old. The pressures of life weigh heavily upon them as their chaotic lifestyles take their toll. Middle Age in their Thirties? “‘Young people are feeling older and feeling pressure a lot sooner in their lives,’ says Tirrell De Gannes, a licensed clinical … Read more
In 1873, President Ulysses S. Grant tasked Colonel B. S. Alexander from the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers with assessing California’s water supply. Eventually, some 1,200 dams were built to manage what is both vital for California’s farming and the state’s most elusive resource. However, managing water was only part of the equation that made … Read more
After months of soul-searching, Democratic Party strategist James Carville wrote a New York Times op-ed about how he was wrong in predicting the results of the 2024 presidential election. He honestly thought Kamala Harris would win the contest and, like all in his party, was devastated by the final results. Order Today: Return to Order: … Read more
The pleasure of drinking alcohol is deeply engraved in our culture. Whether used for festive toasts or quiet evening reflections, enjoying a bottle of wine enriches our lives, culture and relationships. However, wine and alcohol have their enemies. Some claim that even moderate drinking may be potentially carcinogenic. The government has recently joined these voices, … Read more
The environmentalists used to pretend that theirs was a vital grass-roots movement. However, today, the pseudo-popular movement is an arm of a massive bureaucracy full of contradictions. One such contradiction is the promotion of “degrowth” as a means of sustainability. Order Today: Return to Order: From a Frenzied Economy to an Organic Christian Society—Where We’ve … Read more
We live in a regime where things feel unsafe. People subconsciously sense insecurity when going to places, lest they fall victim to violence or attack. It is a kind of local terrorism where rogue individuals act out their macabre fantasies and ideologies in ordinary places, whether at a political rally, a New Year’s celebration or … Read more
A political myth states that once the Supreme Court has spoken, the issue is definitively settled. Especially when referring to liberal projects, these pronouncements are about as close to secular infallibility as it gets. This was the case of Roe v. Wade. For decades, liberals insisted upon calling the unsettling decision “settled law.” It could … Read more
A new figure is appearing on the political horizon that does not bode well for the conservative movement in America. That figure is the cultural Christian. For decades, culture and Christians have been associated with the Culture War centered on the hot-button issues of abortion, marriage and other moral topics. Christianity provided the dynamic component … Read more
On December 12, 2024, The New York Times published a piece titled “It’s Time to Talk About Pornography, Scholars Say.” It cited a sobering 2023 survey showing that almost three-quarters of American adolescents under seventeen have viewed pornographic materials. Much of the piece talked about the harmful, misleading and unrealistic nature of indecent literature, photographs … Read more
The United Kingdom’s Labour Party government is presenting a bill to abolish the hereditary lords from the upper chamber of Parliament. Hereditary lords are those House of Lords’ members who inherit the right to sit in the upper House based on services rendered to the realm. Many storied families have retained this right for generations. … Read more
