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Category Archives: Society and Culture
The World-Ending Fire
The World-Ending Fire: The Essential Wendell Berry© 2018 Wendell Berry and Paul Kingsnorth360 pages What a way to finish 2022, in reading this superb collection of Wendell Berry’s essays. Berry has published no small amount of essay collections himself, and … Continue reading
Together
Together: The Healing Power of Human Connection in a Sometimes Lonely World© 2020 Vivek H. Murthy352 pages People are generally open about their physical health; indeed, for men of a certain age, it’s their favorite topic of discussion — at least, … Continue reading
Posted in Politics and Civic Interest, Reviews, Society and Culture
Tagged civic awareness, mental health-illness
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Irreversible Damage
Irreversible Damage: The Transgender Craze Seducing Our Daughters© 2020 Abigail Shrier276 pages To the degree that gender dysphoria existed prior to 2015, it was almost wholly the domain of young boys. In the last ten years, however, claims of dysphoria … Continue reading
Posted in Reviews, Society and Culture
Tagged dissent, marriage and family, sexuality, women
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Righteous in their time
We live in a time when it has become politically correct to destroy statues of such historic figures as Washington, Thomas Jefferson, Christopher Columbus, Andrew Jackson, and others. A lesson about such statue-tory destruction can be learned by comparing the … Continue reading
Posted in quotations, Society and Culture
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The way of men – pagan and Christian
Late last year I re-read Jack Donovan’s The Way of Men, written for identifying what it means to be a man, and what men need and want. Donovan argues that men are largely driven by the need for the respect … Continue reading
Posted in Religion and Philosophy, Reviews, Society and Culture
Tagged Christianity, Of Boys and Men
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When Harry Became Sally
When Harry Became Sally: Responding to the Transgender Movement© 2018 Ryan Anderson251 pages In the summer of 2015, a former non-issue affecting an extreme minority became, seemingly overnight, a mainstream talking point. All manner of individuals suddenly began announcing they … Continue reading
Posted in Politics and Civic Interest, Reviews, Society and Culture
Tagged dissent, politics, sexuality, Wokeistan
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American Contempt for Liberty
American Contempt for Liberty© 2015 Walter Williams432 pages American Contempt for Liberty caught my eye immediately, for its title alone, for I’ve had a growing suspicion that the failure of the American republic lies not only in the ever-expanding state, … Continue reading
Posted in Politics and Civic Interest, Reviews, Society and Culture
Tagged conservative, essays, libertarianism, race, Walter Williams
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Nomadland
Nomadland: Surviving America in the 21st Century© 2017 Jessica Bruder273 pages America has always been a nation on the move, but some people take that more literally than others. Nomadland takes us into the aftermath of the great recession, as … Continue reading
Posted in Reviews, Society and Culture
Tagged 2000s, 2010s, American Southwest, poverty, simple living, travel
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Steal this Book
pub. 1971 Abbie Hoffman308 pages At some point in the early 2000s, I stumbled onto a digital copy of Steal this Book and was appropriately scandalized. Because of the unique religious subculture in which I was raised, most of the … Continue reading