manners-and-morals
A.C. Green: Iron Virgin

I was born and raised in the Los Angeles area, and also raised a passionate L.A. sport...

books
The Thought-Provoking “Love in the Western World’ by Denis de Rougement

First written in 1938 and revised and enlarged in 1954, Love in the Western World is ...

manners-and-morals
God and the Evidence Agree: Good Old Nuclear Family Still Best

Unless you are wedded, no pun intended, to a left-wing ideological agenda you know int...

manners-and-morals
Throwback Thursday – “A Seasonable Plea for the Liberty of Conscience”

The more things change, the more they stay the same. In the mid-18th century it wasn't jus...

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...

culture101
The Gay Marriage Decision

By a narrow margin, the Supreme Court (SCOTUS) has declared same-sex marriage to be legal ...

manners-and-morals
The Left’s False Flag Operation

As has been all over the news, political activists are using a hideous crime to force r...

culture101
Throwback Thursday – Does Size Alone Really Matter?

Those of you reading this who are not native-born Americans and who are therefore able to ...

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 ...

manners-and-morals
Kyle and Jenner: The Price of Fame is the Destruction of Heroism

“True bravery is shown by performing without witness what one might be capable of doin...

manners-and-morals
Coach Fired After Threat Against Pizza Shop

A high school coach in northern Indiana has been fired after tweeting that a local pizza...

manners-and-morals
Speith’s Classy Performance at the Master’s Is One for the Ages

Jordan Speith won the Masters golf tournament at age 21 and showed a great amount of cla...

manners-and-morals
Thursday Abstract: Rolling Stones, April TV Encomia, Mocking Noah’s Detractors

The Rolling Stones will tour the United States this summer, playing in large stadia in ...

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. ...

manners-and-morals
Monday Abstract: Brey, Children of Same-Sex Marriage, Beauty of Aurora Borealis

On Saturday, University of Notre Dame head basketball coach Mike Brey showed what good c...

books
Fifty Shades of What?

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

journalism
Williams Scandal Follows Standard Elite Response Model

As most readers undoubtedly know by now, NBC has suspended Nightly News anchor Brian Wil...

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

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

art
Avenging the Honor of Free Speech

January 7, 2015, will be remembered as the day Islamic terrorists declared war against 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...

manners-and-morals
Ferguson, Bosnia, and Other Tragic Myths

When the Soviet Empire fell apart, between 1989 and 1991, some liberated nations had a dif...

manners-and-morals
Merry Freaking Christmas! (Now Get Your Hands Off My Stuff)

Regardless of your religious beliefs (if any), almost all of us agree that the Christmas...

manners-and-morals
Relativism and ‘Empty Integrity’

Relativism is a funny thing. It is a self-refuting concept: how can there be no truth if t...

manners-and-morals
There is no “Death with Dignity”

A young woman with terminal cancer made news the last couple weeks when we learned that th...

manners-and-morals
New Book Documents the Reality of Family Fragmentation: It is a Problem

Jonathan Last at The Weekly Standard has a review of a new book about the breakdown of the...

journalism
Media’s Domestic-Abuse and NFL-Abuse Problems Observed

Writing in The American Spectator, columnist Jeffrey Lord makes an important point about...

manners-and-morals
Crowding Out Common Courtesy

In his latest Boston Globe column, Jeff Jacoby argues that a misplaced emphasis on indiv...

manners-and-morals
Yes Liberals, Families Do Matter

It seems like there isn’t a weekend in Chicago this summer where we don’t hear about h...

manners-and-morals
Blacking Up on the Road to Auschwitz

British writer Sean Gabb analyzes the logic behind another political correctness protes...

manners-and-morals
Columnist: Panhandlers Are Stingy

Writing in the Indianapolis Star, attorney and political commentator Abdul-Hakim Shabazz t...

manners-and-morals
Dungy Defended, Media Blasted

Addressing the media "fertilizer storm" over former Tampa Bay Buccaneers and Indianapol...

culture101
It’s No Mystery Why Culture Talk Has Become So Belligerent

In an essay that more properly belongs in the newspaper's "Duh!" section (which doesn't ...