A Trumpian Europe
How to react to the first two weeks of Donald Trump’s presidency? In many European countries, with satire and laughter. It started when a Dutch comedian prosed to amend Trump’s […]
Tag Archives: culture
Matters of Truth
The most boring question you can ask of any religion is whether it is true. So says Alain de Botton, philosopher, writer, and founder of an organization called “The School […]
Trumpism is here to stay (and how to deal with it)
The American elections take place tomorrow. Does that mean that the polarizing populism that breeds on people’s resentment and fear, that has emerged not just in Trump’s candidacy but also […]
Hillbilly Theology
In my own small corner of the Blogosphere, I keep bumping up against this book called Hillbilly Elegy. Its subtitle, A Memoir of a Family and Culture in Crisis, hints […]
Why is “seize the day” our universal motto?
Seize the day. Live for the moment. Be yourself. Only you can be you, only now can be now. Maxims like these populate my Facebook and Twitter feed like commercials […]
Signalling Virtue
The ability to interact online is a marvelous gift and one that, as someone who has been blogging for nearly a decade, I am immensely appreciative of. But to the […]
Yes. You are screwing up your kids.
It’s an unavoidable fact of parenting. Whether you are an attachment parent, co-sleeping parent, a free-range parent, a helicopter parent, a traditional parent, a non-ideological parent, you are doing something […]
When the World Appears Out of Control
The global news cycle as of late appears to have taken an unusually harsh psychic toll on people around the world. The events of Orlando and Dallas, Nice and Paris, […]
To be a man is to help women flourish
What does it mean to be a man today? What makes a guy a guy? Muscles? Brain? An instinct for leadership? It sounds like such a simple question. Men are […]
Where Have All the Relativists Gone?
For decades now, Christians have warned about the consequences of moral relativism. The notions that all moral ideas are equal or that no one has the right to judge anything anyone else […]
Wondering Fair 