politics
Should A “Good Muslim” Be President of the United States?

Finally liberals and some conservatives agree on something. Ben Carson is a bigot! Typ...

books
New Book by Alexandra York: “The Innocent”

Alexandra York is an author whose work we are proud to promote at The American Culture...

theamericanculture
Planned Parenthood vs. Reality

Now that we know Planned Parenthood has a bustling trade in fetal body parts, you wonder h...

theamericanculture
The Onion, Pro-Life?

What is this world coming to when The Onion can mock the abortion industry without any see...

manners-and-morals
Credit Pop Culture for Gay Marriage

The title of a piece in the LA Times after the gay marriage ruling: "Years before court ru...

politics-and-policy
A Libertarian Argument for Getting Government Out of “Defining” Marriage Worth Considering

I've never been convinced by the libertarian argument to get government out of the marriag...

culture-and-economics
Corporate and Liberal Hypocrisy on Display in Response to Charleston Shooting

Yes, I know we're surprised. David French, one of the most articulate culture warriors on ...

uncategorized
Gay Marriage as Trojan Horse

Jonathan Last at The Weekly Standard has the best explanation I've seen yet of  what real...

uncategorized
Progressive Burgers? I Don’t Think So

It seems that McDonald's Wants to Rebrand as a ‘Progressive Burger Company.’ From the ...

humor-2
Modern Progressivism is a Killjoy

On June 12, 1987 Ronald Reagan, in a speech in West Berlin, told Mikhail Gorbachev, the Ge...

sports
Tiger Woods: The Making of a Man

This past Saturday there were two historic events in sport. One captured the thrill of v...

sports
Is Today the Day for a Triple Crown?

Back before baseball, basketball and football became national pastimes there was boxing ...

uncategorized
“The Spirit of Jewish Conservatism”—A Five-Part Symposium

Jewish conservatism might appear to be an oxymoron, but in the age of Barack Obama it is b...

television
It’s the Age of “Aquarius” on NBC

For those of you going through "Mad Men" withdrawals now that the series has ended, and ar...

uncategorized
Do Conservatives Really Suck at Pop Culture?

I don't generally like to use the "S" word, but according to Chicks on the Right, they rea...

movies
The Avengers and Cultural Hope

My 13 year old Marvel loving son and I saw the latest Avengers blockbuster recently. I'd r...

sports
Tom Brady Is Not So Golden Now

I confess that I hate Tom Brady. Ever since the snot nosed kid beat my St. Louis (previous...

manners-and-morals
The Cycle of Poverty and the Culture of Poverty

Since Baltimore and its discontents broke upon the national scene a couple weeks ago, th...

civilsociety
Baltimore Riots: The Epic Fail of Modern Liberalism

After more than a hundred years of progressivism, it has come to this: public officials ...

television
Paranormal Drives Much Popular Entertainment Today, As Audiences Search for Meaning

For an overwhelmingly secular society, an awful lot of today's popular entertainment is de...

manners-and-morals
Review: ‘Do You Believe?’ Christians Can Make Great Movies?

Bible-themed and Christian movies have hit the multiplexes in a big way in the last year. ...

books
Why We Miss ‘Calvin and Hobbes’

No, this doesn't refer to a theologian and a philosopher, but a six-year-old curmudgeon an...

books
Fifty Shades of What?

By now we know that a movie based on a bestselling book series about kinky sex dominated t...

popularstories
Obama’s Prayer Breakfast Outrage Provides New Moral Clarity

For all his failings as a national leader, President Obama has been a great gift to moral...

music
Dylan Lauds Tradition, Popular Music Predecessors

Bob Dylan is a legend, an American treasure, and obviously an American original. On Friday...

culture-and-economics
George Will: Ever-Expanding Welfare State Is Causing Deep, Lasting Harm

Most people would probably agree that giving someone something for nothing does not promo...

movies
Rush Celebrates Its 40th with North American Tour

You know the adjective old applies when a band you followed as a kid celebrates its 40th a...

television
‘Breaking Bad’ to Live on in ‘Better Call Saul’

For Breaking Bad fans, this has to be good news: one of the show's most memorable charact...

culture-and-economics
Contest Promotes Small-Town Revitalization

Small towns in the United States don't get much media attention unless something very go...

people
Woody Allen, Amazon Ink Deal for New Streaming Series

My favorite theologian, Woody Allen, is coming to twenty-first century TV. From this morni...

manners-and-morals
Klavan: The Culture Is a-Changin’

One of my favorite cultural commentators is the inimitable Andrew Klavan, an award-winning...

books
‘No Place’ Is a Bad Place—Le Guin’s Timeless Message of ‘The Lathe of Heaven’

The word utopia literally means "no place" in the original Greek. Thomas More named his f...

culture-and-economics
Family Issues Provide Common Cause for Fiscal and Social Conservatives

Practically since the beginning of the modern conservative movement (roughly from the 1950...