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June 2018

June 18, 2018

To Uphold The Law Is Mercy

My wife and I sometimes settle in to watch a little television. This often involves...

April 2018

April 10, 2018

Modern Loneliness Is Like Nothing That Has Come Before

Paris Je T’aime is a good movie overall, but the best part is the end....

January 2018

January 30, 2018

A Praiseworthy Program

Popular culture both reflects and advances the crumbling of our culture at-large. Most pop culture artifacts...

January 24, 2018

The Future Will be Even Lonelier

The modern way of living extracts payment for all its wonders in the form of...

January 22, 2018

Nihilism is the Foundation of Our Culture

Lately, I can’t stop thinking about nothing. More and more, I am convinced the key...

January 18, 2018

A Different Life Is Possible

We take so much for granted. We assume the way things are is the best...

January 16, 2018

The Solution to Our Sexual Misconduct Problem is Chastity

Behind our ongoing rush of sexual misconduct allegations is a crisis of ideals. We cannot...

June 2017

June 08, 2017

Three Practices for Cultivating Outcome Independence

You're nervous, I get it. You want things to work out. Somehow, you think that...

May 2017

May 15, 2017

What We Don’t Know Will Kill Us

Perhaps unsurprisingly, many people react poorly to my saying America is doomed. Their anger and...

May 08, 2017

Why Millennials Act That Way

It’s that time now when school years end, and that means it’s time for commencement...

April 2017

April 24, 2017

How Spring Break Destroyed America

Sometime in the 1990’s when other college kids were off on Spring Break, I was...

April 14, 2017

Evangelical Christian Culture Devalues Men: An Example

You may not know who Russell Moore is, but you should. He is president of...

April 11, 2017

About that Man Dragged Off the Plane

So, a man got kicked off an airplane and the incident sparked an uproar. Let's...

April 07, 2017

Traditionalists Must Oppose Military Action

Traditionalists and modernists differ in that traditionalists don’t believe the world can be perfected. We...

March 2017

March 29, 2017

We Are Mostly Blind to the Suffering of the World

My wife’s phone rang a couple of times last night. First, it was the pastor...

March 23, 2017

A Brief Defense of Sleep

My dog had to go on medication a couple of weeks ago. It makes her...

February 2017

February 22, 2017

American Culture is an Anti-Culture

As a child in Sunday school, I learned a song that went: “Be careful, little...

February 15, 2017

Value and the Burden of Neediness

NOTE: Understanding the process by which people assess and create value is crucial to living...

February 08, 2017

Life is Just One Problem After Another

One recent morning, not long before the alarm went off, the bed where my wife...

December 2016

December 12, 2016

On the Necessity of Romance

More and more, I think about romance. Mostly, I notice its absence. By romance, I...

November 2016

November 02, 2016

How to Get Woke

I'm not a big one for slang. Maybe I was when I was younger. I...

October 2016

October 28, 2016

The Stories a Desperate People Tell

One reason they call it popular culture is that its popular, really, really popular. The...

October 25, 2016

Things Are Just As Fragile As You Fear

For the least several years, I have taken the time to binge watch each season...

October 04, 2016

Improving our Self-Improvement: Thoughts on a Post by Mark Baxter

Our is an age hostile to wisdom, and that hostility makes itself seen in two...

September 2016

September 15, 2016

Churches that Reject Tradition, Reject Men

It shouldn’t surprise you to hear that one of the dumbest things I ever saw...

September 01, 2016

How to Talk to Boys: A Response to Danielle Campoamor

The attack on manhood begins early. Those who want to shame men and turn us...

August 2016

August 25, 2016

Is It Okay for Men to Cry?

The video below made the rounds a few weeks back. The reason is obvious once...

August 22, 2016

Why You Are So Insecure and What to Do About It

It doesn’t take too long when you meet some people to know something is off....

August 11, 2016

Nice Guys, Bad Girls and God: Some Thoughts on a Post by Mark Braivo

Women sometimes do terrible things, and Mark Braivo recently posted a story of one such...

August 04, 2016

Men Everywhere Have Been Trained to Lose

Not long ago, my wife and I took our daughters to see a performance of...