Civility
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Putting Civil Back in Civilization November 08, 2024
Speech codes, safe spaces, and intolerant demands for diversity, equity, and inclusion appear to be clumsy and misguided attempts to create an artificial civil environment; yet, social interaction seems less civil every day. If we were to follow Alex...
On Montserrat Roig’s “The Time of Cherries” November 06, 2024
The Catalan writer Montserrat Roig came of age amid the normalized disorder and oppression of Francoist Spain. Born in 1946, she was part of a generation that bore the scars of a painful, brutal Civil War: a conflict of blurred lines, in which both p...
A Response to My Liberal Neighbor November 05, 2024
I recently received this email from a neighbor:I want to share the following words from Boston Globe “Fast Forward” columnist Teresa Hanafin about the upcoming election. I know it won’t make a difference to your way of thinking — which is a mystery a...
Why Freedom Needs Manners September 04, 2024
Thinking about belching? Remember to look up at the ceiling. Or at least that’s what Daniel of Beccles, in his text Book of the Civilized Man, counseled men to do in the high Middle Ages when they got that queasy feeling. Alexandra Hudson eloquently ...
The Esoteric Wokeness of ‘Ancient Aliens’ September 02, 2024
The History Channel series Ancient Aliens, which will soon conclude its 20th season, pioneered an increasingly influential brand of pseudo-history, also on display in the recent Netflix production Ancient Apocalypse. Both shows gain their appeal simu...
