In his “Dear White America” letter to The New York Times, Emory University Professor George Yancy wrote, “If you are white, and you are reading this letter, I ask that you don’t run to seek shelter from your own racism. Don’t hide from your responsibility. Rather, begin, right now, to practice being vulnerable.” He also…
Category: Culture
Martin’s King Tut is now Cultural Appropriation
One of the best skits ever produced by Saturday Night Live was Steve Martin’s rendition of the song, King Tut. It made fun of the commercialization of the nationwide King Tut phenomenon sparked by the “Treasures of Tutankhamen” exhibition that toured seven cities from 1976 to 1979, drawing about 8 million visitors. These days, however, the video is…
Mark Steyn on California’s Racist Trees
Multiculturism is leading to the dumbing down of America. People today believe things that no sane person of any philosophical bent would believe if not beholden to bowing down to the multicultural alter. One of the primary tenets of multiculturism these days is that whites are racist, every one of them, even if they don’t know it. And…
Whose Better for the Texas Economy: Hollywood Filmmakers or Texas Entrepreneurs?
Filmmakers and government economic development types are bemoaning the fact that Texas doesn’t offer as much as other states when it comes to film subsidies. “Texas is losing jobs because we cannot compete,” said Janis Burklund, director of the Dallas Film Commission. It may, or may not, be the case that Texas is losing jobs…
Egalitarianism and the PCA’s Debate over the Role of Women in the Ministry in the Church
The discussion of the role of women in the ministry of the church dominated much of the proceedings of the Presbyterian Church of America’s 2017 General Assembly. Despite numerous disputes over the findings and recommendations in the report from the GA’s committee on this issue, it was ultimately adopted. The details of these recommendations and…
The Swamp Wins in Alabama
Mark Steyn is one of the two best political commentators in the English speaking world today. Here is an excerpt of his thoughts on the swamp’s victory in the Alabama Senate race yesterday: Roy Moore was the nominee only because the smart guys over-invested in Luther Strange (just as in 2015 they over-invested in Jeb…
Black Rednecks and White Liberals by Thomas Sowell
Looking at relationships between peoples in terms of color, and more specifically in terms of white racism and oppression of blacks, is the prevailing view among many secular and religious groups in America today. Thomas Sowell’s provides a historical perspective that suggest this view is not accurate in his book, Black Rednecks and White Liberals….
Books with a Christian Worldview for Children, Young Adults, and the Young at Heart
I’ve read a lot of books to my son, William, over the years. In part because of his reading challenges, in part because there are some VERY good books out there for younger folks that I didn’t read but are still very edifying for me today, and in part because of what I have read…
Markets, Not the Governing Elite, Secure Life, Liberty, and Prosperity
A recent article by the Niskanen Center tries to make the case that regulations should be considered beneficial unless proven otherwise. The thing is is that we don’t need data to understand whether the effects caused by regulation are on balance good or bad. Liberty tells us that the cumulative effect of regulations will be…
Mark Steyn at David Horowitz’s Restoration Weekend 2017
Mark Steyn is one of the best political commentators of our time. Not a Trump apologist, he still nailed the Trump phenomenon when other commentators on the right were in a mist. He was able to do this because he understands we are at war with a multicultural elite who are trying to destroy the very…