Tagged: Culture
Joe Biden’s ’68 Throwback Special
Joe Biden talked about these formative events to a generation. The problem is that was not only a generation ago, but nearly two generations ago.
Put Away Childish Things
Many of us have stuck with childish pursuits because the adults of the past couple generations failed to properly pass the baton.
We Don’t Really Care Why
I don’t know the answer. I just know we will never find it because we can’t leave our corners.
On Changing The Subject
A place where you can go to get news about sports, sports, sports and not Trump, Trump, Trump.
Comment Rescue: The Underclass
In Avi Woolf’s Kevin Williamson’s Smallest World post, Brother Rufus wrote an insightful and incisive comment:
Kevin Williamson’s Smallest World
A radical libertarian manifesto that deserves to be taken seriously – and rejected. A Review of Kevin Williamson’s “The Smallest Minority: Independent Thinking in the Age of Mob Politics”
Nondenominational: The Lost Tribe of Evangelicals
The death of evangelicalism has been predicted ever since Nietzsche proclaimed that God is dead, yet the resiliency of the evangelical church surprises secular observers.
Dark and Dusty, Painted on the Sky
The dirty history of West Virginians trying to get clean of documentary perceptions.
Trophy Lives
It is epically discouraging to know that no matter how hard you try, someone else is always going to be better.
Fagin, Bigotry, and “Cancel Culture”
Put simply, Fagin is one of the most loathsome and unredeemable creatures I have ever come across in fiction.
Oh, the Humanity
My son cannot understand why anyone cared if the Hindenburg blew up because he is eleven years old and thinks the world is an anime.
Sunday Morning! On Persona and Jennifer Packer
On a great contemporary artist, a Bergman classic, and the cruelty and care of depicting others.
Sunday Morning! Tarkovsky’s “Stalker” (1979)
The director angrily replied that the movie needed to be slower at the beginning so bored audience members would realize they were in the wrong theater and leave early, thus weeding them out.
Forgiveness is Divine
The weirdest thing about forgiveness is that in the end it really isn’t about the person you’re forgiving, it’s about you.
