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July 31, 2024The pioneer dream is deeply engraved in American culture and history. It’s simple but powerful: setting forth into the unknown, with just a few belongings and your immediate...
June 27, 2024The always funny and incisive Spencer Klavan wrote a salvo recently at The American Mind on the perennial problem of “conservative art,” in which he argues that...
May 6, 2024Does promoting marriage and motherhood inevitably make women easy targets for subordinate status, increased vulnerability, and a return to second-class status? One of the very first...
April 18, 2024Not long ago, a high-profile conservative woman of my acquaintance was cornered at the National Conservatism conference by a pimply young man who put to her that women should not...
March 25, 2024Since the Princess of Wales withdrew from public life in January for planned abdominal surgery, her continued absence and relative Palace silence have prompted a frenzy of ever more...
March 14, 2024We’re all familiar with the policy debates that surround the family. How does the tax code interact with family stability and the needs of children? Who should care for...
February 14, 2024How St Valentine came to be associated with romance is disputed. Some suggest the third-century martyr’s feast “Christianised” a Roman fertility festival —...
January 31, 2024In pop music, one of the most time-honoured devices for upping the emotional ante is known colloquially as the “Truck Driver’s Gear Change”. In it, the melody stays...
January 22, 2024Within mainstream modern liberal feminism—especially as filtered through America’s bitterly polarized culture wars—to be feminist is self-evidently to be left-wing....
January 18, 2024In 1950, Enrico Fermi, the man who built the first nuclear reactor, was having lunch with some other scientists when the discussion turned to aliens – and he first articulated...
January 15, 2024How do you reverse social atomisation? I spend a lot of time critiquing the breakdown of social bonds, and especially pointing out how difficult it is to create and sustain families...
