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What’s So Bad About Uncle Tom?

I’ve often wondered these several decades of my political awareness why the term “Uncl...

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The Value of Traditional Marriage Seen in Its Demise

I’ll never forget an interview I heard with the current Secretary of Education Arne Dunc...

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“Altamont Augie”: The 60s Counter Culture Come Alive

My first book of the New Year turned out to be a very good one, a first novel  by Richard...

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America 1815-1848, Who Knew!

If you are a fan of American history, or a typically educated American, I’d wager that t...

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Happy New Year from King Solomon!

What better way to get a little perspective on the New Year than from a 3,000 year old sho...

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Les Misérables Didn’t Make Me Totally Miserable!

You see, I’m not a big fan of musicals. Yes, I guess you could say, I’ll admit it, I�...

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Where is the 21st Century Horatio Alger?

I’m sure for you generation X, Y and Zers, the name Horatio Alger, a strange one to your...

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Another Blow to Malthus and His Progeny

Growing up in the 1970s I learned that the earth was a fragile thing, that resources were ...

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One Response to Sandy Hook and the Problem of Evil

Since Friday there have been a million and one response to the evil experienced against th...

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Chivalry Is Not Dead

There was a time back in the day, as they say, when treating women with respect by opening...

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Labels: What Are They Good For?

There is a strain among certain traditionalist conservatives to eschew the use of labels. ...

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Ace Aces It!

Those of us at The American Culture often comment on the monopoly modern liberals, i.e. pr...

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I Vote for Sandra Fluke for Time’s Person of the Year!

Every year, as we all know, Time Magazine honors someone as its “Person of the Year,” ...

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TNT’s “Leverage” Almost Jumps the Proverbial Shark

I’m not ready to give up on Timothy Hutton and the gang just yet, but the big business, ...

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Mark Twain Wouldn’t Have Liked Nanny State Modern Liberals Either

The Wall Street Journal has a “Notable & Quotable” piece in its Op Ed section ever...

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It’s the Social Conservatives’ Fault!

So goes the line from many corners of the political and cultural realm: it was the social ...

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Conservative Money Needs to Make Its Way Into The Culture

As we know, and as I’ve said here ad nauseum, the battle for the soul of America is the ...

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Democracy and the Redefinition of Marriage

As we know, last Tuesday’s election didn’t exactly go the way conservatives and other ...

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From A Broken Record: It’s the Culture, Stupid!

To conservatives it seems inconceivable that Americans bought into the Democrat/Obama narr...

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The Secular March of History up Against Human Nature

To the hurrahs of atheists everywhere reports of the decline of religion in America was fa...

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The Welfare State’s Cultural Consensus – Mutually Reinforcing Dysfunction

In a piece last weekend George Will writes about the seeds of America’s dysfunction, whi...

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The Illiberalism of Modern Liberalism

I hate to get all culture-war on you, but when liberty is at stake I don’t see a way aro...

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What Value Reviews?

Recently I heard about Mark Helprin’s new novel, “In Sunlight and in Shadow.” I’ve...

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An animated tour of the invisible

It really is insane just how little we human beings know. This entertaining video of how m...

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SNL mocks Obama defending his record on the economy

Now how in the world did this get past the Democrat media censors! You have to wonder how ...

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SNL Mocks Obama Campaign’s ‘ForAll’ pledge

Oh, they didn’t? Well, this weekend’s show hasn’t happened yet, so maybe one of the ...

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Spanish Language Network Shames America’s Mainstream Media

With Barack Obama’s track record almost four years into his presidency, you would think ...

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Does NPR Have a Liberal Bias?

To the liberal/progressive such a question is evidence of conservative hysteria based on t...

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Remembrances from Christopher Hitchens’ Wife

I came across this homage to Christopher Hitchens by his wife, Carol Blue, and thought it ...

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The Re-definition of Marriage and Historical Inevitability

I believe what marriage has been for all of recorded history, a societal institution that ...

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Failure of Predicted Environmental Apocalypse Discredits Extremists

I received the latest copy of Wired magazine last week, and the cover immediately caught m...

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Apologia for Disaster: Making ‘The Wire’ an Argument for Big Government and Wealth Redistribution

The Wire, HBO’s grim drama about life in a dysfunctional city of Baltimore, has become s...

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Ideological Purity and the Presidential Election: It’s the Culture, Stupid

I get frustrated when I see articles like the following: “40 Points That Prove That Bara...