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December 2025

December 05, 2025

DISCUSS: Heritage Americans?

Many conservatives are now promoting the notion of "Heritage Americans," descendants of Americans who have...

December 04, 2025

Prospects for War

What do you think are the prospects for war? Not a limited "police action" in...

December 02, 2025

Thanksgiving Leftovers

Some of you are probably still eating Thanksgiving leftovers (my favorite part of the Thanksgiving...

November 2025

November 20, 2025

Intersectionality vs. Your Particular Beliefs

A defining dogma of woke ideology is intersectionality, which means in practice that someone who...

September 2025

September 11, 2025

The End of Free Market Capitalism in the USA?

A conservative economist laments, "The free-market capitalism that saw this nation prosper like no other...

September 10, 2025

Americans Are Stuck in Place

American citizens used to be highly mobile, criss-crossing the country to pursue better jobs and...

August 2025

August 18, 2025

Monday Miscellany, 8/18/25

The 20 jobs that are safest from AI. Why traffic to the big porn sites...

July 2025

July 04, 2025

Theses on Love of Country

This year we celebrate the 4th of July in a climate of controversy over patriotism....

July 04, 2025

DISCUSS: What Do You Love about Your Country?

What are some things you love about your country?

June 2025

June 06, 2025

DISCUSS: Trump’s “One Big Beautiful Bill”

What do you think of President Trump's spending bill? What provisions would you axe? What...

May 2025

May 22, 2025

Entering the Post-Progressive Era

A UK political scientist argues that progressivism is over. This is not just a matter...

May 16, 2025

DISCUSS: What Makes America Great?

"The hat reads, 'Make America Great Again," observes Jay Nordlinger. "Leaving aside the question of...

May 13, 2025

The American Pope

The conclave of cardinals elected a new pope to rule the Roman Catholic Church, and...

April 2025

April 24, 2025

The Every-Hundred-Years Revival

Great Britain has had the reputation as one of the most secularized nations in the...

April 10, 2025

The Nones Are Actually Declining

A brand new study found that 24% of Americans were "Nones" in 2023. But one...

April 02, 2025

How Community Is Lost & Regained

To a large degree, we have lost our sense of community. MacIntyre's model--creed, story, practices--can...

March 2025

March 14, 2025

DISCUSS: Other Countries’ Dependence on the USA

To what extent do you think the United States should be responsible for the defense...

March 11, 2025

The Religious Decline Has Stopped

Pew Research has released its 2023-24 Religious Landscape Survey (RLS), a detailed study of the...

March 07, 2025

Going Too Far

Peggy Noonan says that the reason progressives crashed and burned is because they kept going...

February 2025

February 21, 2025

The Four Strands of America’s Christian Revival

Spencer Klavan describes four strains of American Christianity that date from colonial times and that...

February 10, 2025

Shock and Awe Miscellany, 2/10/25

Do we really want Gaza? How can tariffs help our economy? Slashing the government.

January 2025

January 31, 2025

DISCUSS: America’s Golden Age

In his inaugural address, President Trump proclaimed, "the golden age of America begins right now." Whatever...

January 17, 2025

DISCUSS: Greenland

Should the United States try to acquire Greenland?

January 15, 2025

Trump’s Impact on Popular Culture

Donald Trump's political victory seems to be accompanied by a larger "vibe shift" in American...

December 2024

December 30, 2024

End of the Year Miscellany, 12/30/24

The most popular Bible verses of 2024. The decline in church attendance has stopped. And...

December 20, 2024

The Vibe Shift

Social observers and trend-trackers are sensing a new cultural "vibe" ("the mood of a place, situation, person, etc. and...

December 11, 2024

The End of the “American Century”?

After World War II, the United States of America dominated the world, spreading its democracy,...

November 2024

November 13, 2024

Elections as God’s Judgment

Michael Brendan Dougherty is not a fundamentalist preacher but a sober mainstream conservative pundit. He...

November 12, 2024

Why Democrats Lost the Election

The Democrats were confident that they would sweep Donald Trump away. Instead, they suffered a...

November 06, 2024

Election Post-Mortem

The other media are hesitating to call the election, but the Cranach media network is...