My friends are out of work. One of my friends had to terminate hundreds of her employees and give them their last paycheck. Politicians turned the flu into a political weapon. Now, small business owners face bankruptcy if they stay…
Tag: culture
Cultural and Moral Instability
Man does not live on bread alone; man is, as the ancients knew, a social animal. However, the great revelation of Christian anthropology is that man is also a cultural animal. The word culture is rooted in the Latin word…
Let’s Burn Another Witch to Stop Armed Murder!
There was a time when children cried so we burned witches. Today, we have some 23 thousand gun control regulations. We pass new regulations each time a celebrity gets shot or some white kids get attacked. We’ve burned that witch…
Criminality Seen in Other Animals
This news story is over 10 years old. In short, a captive dolphin was rewarded for cleaning up its pool. The trainers would give the dolphin a fish if the dolphin turned in a piece of trash that blew into…
Family Bonds
Alexis de Tocqueville once wrote that an American will build a house in which to pass his old age and sell it before the roof is on; he will plant a garden and abandon it just as the trees are…
Cultural Amnesia
“Not to know what happened before you were born is to remain forever a child.” Cicero Today’s students are know-nothings. Their minds are largely empty, devoid of any substantial knowledge that should be the fruits of their education. They are…
The Smell of Death Surrounds Us
The smell of death surrounds us. No one knows why people commit mass murder, or why deaths of despair are on the rise. In our secular culture, death seems to have no reason – that is until we look more…
Liberal Culture & Totalitarian Democracy
“Liberalism. . .tends to release energy rather than accumulate it, to relax rather than to fortify. It is a movement not so much defined by its end, as by its starting point; away from rather than toward, something definite. Our…