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I’ve marveled before about how statements of the past can read like today’s headlines, especially those like the following taken from the front flap of Martin L. Gross’ 1997 “The End of Sanity”: “At the University of Pennsylvania, separate dorms have been set up for minorities in the name of racial harmony.” “An apprehended mugger
Online dating is the most common way couples meet today. One graph circulating on X shows that over 60 of today’s couples meet online. At 13, meeting through friends is a distant second. As recently as 2000, online was the least common place for couples to meet, with in-person social settings such as bars, workplaces, churches, and
In August 1945, the United States unleashed the power of the atom and leveled two Japanese cities. This new technology, the atomic bomb, brought an end to World War II, while simultaneously kicking off an arms race that would last nearly 50 years. The Soviet Union could not allow the U.S. to maintain its monopoly
In the summer of 2023, I fell in love with poetry. I was living overseas, struggling to navigate a job teaching English and a new life in a third-world country. Amidst the external and internal chaos, Saturdays were a reprieve. I’d mount my moped, drive to a nearby coffeehouse, and spend several hours reading and
In a recent article, Annie Holmquist maps out the twisting path leading eventually from liberalism to communism. She points to Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn’s 1978 Harvard Address in which he declared, “Liberalism was inevitably pushed aside by radicalism, radicalism had to surrender to socialism, and socialism could not stand up to communism.” To avoid this slide, she urges a
I’ve been working as a copywriter for several years now, so I’ve watched the conversation about AI in the workplace go from theoretical to practical concern. There’s real anxiety there. Many worry that if they use AI to help with their work, they’re abandoning their craft. While I understand this fear, I also think it entirely
In 2023, a group of individuals and organizations, with the most prominent at the time being psychologist, speaker, and writer Jordan Peterson, founded the Alliance for Responsible Citizenship (ARC). The intention of this group was to counter the decline of Western civilization and put forward a positive agenda for the future. “We reject the inevitability
My daughter has intensely blue eyes, bright, cerulean, sky, and turquoise all mixed and glittering in mesmerizing orbs. Life, light, and laughter shimmer there, along with the hints of her own kind of wisdom. Where did this depth come from? Where this character, this soul? She is both mine and not mine. No human achievement
