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June 2024

June 07, 2024

Teaching People That Their Lives Have No Value

Even as societies have become careful not to "trigger" the suicidal but to encourage them...

June 07, 2024

DISCUSSION: “They’d Be Mentally Ill If They Were Happy”

"A lot of people who have depression don’t really have mental illness. They’re having the...

June 05, 2024

The Woke Jihad

A puzzle about the campus protests in support of Hamas and in condemnation of Israel...

May 2024

May 31, 2024

DISCUSSION: God Is Watching

“The notion that God is watching you even when others are not is probably the...

May 10, 2024

The Nihilism Beneath the Surface

In questioning the reasons for their protests given by the anti-Israel demonstrators, Carl Trueman sees...

April 2024

April 30, 2024

From Intersectionality to “It’s All One Thing”

University campuses are exploding with protests not seen since the days of the Vietnam War....

April 22, 2024

Monday Miscellany, 4/22/24

Ronald Reagan--and a Cranach subscriber--saved Israel (over Biden's objections); connection between the church slump and...

April 17, 2024

The Prodigal Generation

Happiness is down and mental health problems are up, especially among young adults under 30,...

April 16, 2024

Beliefs as Status Symbols

"Conspicuous consumption" is the use of luxury possessions to signal to one and all your...

April 15, 2024

Monday Miscellany, 4/15/24

Second jobs; women as closet conservatives; and why does it take so long to build...

April 08, 2024

Monday Miscellany, 4/8/24

Cosmic coincidences and the total eclipse; adult baptisms soaring in France; and more evidence that...

March 2024

March 20, 2024

Humans = Machines

Humanism has given way to "posthumanism," the blending of humans and machines. Robert Lazu Kmita...

March 07, 2024

The Need for Chaos

We've been blogging about different political theories. Here is another one: Political Nihilism. As many...

January 2024

January 12, 2024

“Preference Falsification” and Woke Ideology

Social pressure often makes people pretend to believe and desire things, when actually they don't. ...

January 10, 2024

How “Anti-Racism” Morphed into “Anti-Semitism”

The spectacle of so many progressives calling for the genocide of the Jews is disorienting. ...

December 2023

December 20, 2023

End Times Secularist Style

Christmas has its secularist version. Apparently, Advent, a time for reflecting on the End Times,...

November 2023

November 29, 2023

The Psychology of Political Violence

The brutal attacks by Hamas on Israeli civilians were shocking. Also shocking was the cheering...

November 24, 2023

DISCUSSION: Is a Sense of Change in the Air?

Bari Weiss and Oliver Wiseman have the feeling that a change is in the air....

October 2023

October 19, 2023

Luxury Beliefs

Traditionally, elites signaled their social status by means of their possessions. But today even the...

October 18, 2023

Christianity Is Always a Minority Religion

As church affiliation plummets and American Christians fret about becoming a minority, we would do...

September 2023

September 28, 2023

Why Diversity, Equity, Inclusion Seminars Don’t Work

The approach DEI seminars typically use is first to make participants feel guilty by exposing...

August 2023

August 11, 2023

UFOs

A former high-level intelligence official told a congressional committee that he has classified evidence that...

June 2023

June 29, 2023

Just How Indoctrinated Are Young Adults?

When parents object to the "woke ideology" being taught in schools, educators tend to deny...

June 19, 2023

Monday Miscellany, 6/19/23

Not affirming your kid's gender choice as child abuse, polarization despite agreement, and prospects for...

May 2023

May 17, 2023

The Evil That Considers Itself Good

This is the 50th anniversary of "The Gulag Archipelago," which documented Communist atrocities. Its author,...

March 2023

March 08, 2023

The Truth about Creativity

Creativity today is usually associated with "thinking outside the box," inventing new ideas by throwing...

February 2023

February 16, 2023

In Praise of Boredom

I have always been an apologist for boredom. So I appreciate Matt Labash for arguing...

January 2023

January 31, 2023

And now the “Transabled”

Some people have the desire to be physically disabled--to be blind, deaf, paralyzed, or an...

January 27, 2023

Losing Your Religion & Suicide

Suicides--also known as "deaths of despair"--have long been on the rise. Researchers have found a...

January 19, 2023

On Revenge

Taking revenge is something we might fantasize about, but most of us would never actually...