Courtesy | Unsplash The world hates weakness. Nobody expresses this attitude better than Satan, in Book I of “Paradise Lost”: “To be weak,” he says, “is miserable.” Last Sunday, many Christians began the season of Advent, and I’ve been thinking about the weakness of the Baby Jesus. A newborn baby is so perfectly helpless. It...
Postmodernism is waning. Traditionalism is ascendant. People are nostalgic for a simpler time: They brought raw milk and smoking jackets back into vogue, and turned sundresses into a legitimate craze. “Trad” is the definitive response to 15 years of “woke.” As this becomes clear, it also becomes apparent that no one grasps what that truly...
Courtesy | Unsplash A key figure of the American founding still lacks a statue on Hillsdale’s Liberty Walk: John Adams. While the presence of George Washington, Thomas Jefferson, and James Madison is more immediately obvious in the American founding, Adams’ legacy deserves far more respect than it currently receives. In his career as a lawyer,...
Courtesy | Unsplash Critics of the president’s demolition of the White House’s East Wing need a history lesson. Public and media criticism have taken issue with the necessity, price tag, and ethics of the demolition and renovation. But these criticisms fail to account for the circumstances of the addition and the historical precedent of prior...
Courtesy | Unsplash A member of the British monarchy stands stripped of his ruling titles for the first time since World War I, and the scandalous circumstances leading to Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor’s humiliation, as well as the substance of the king’s response, are worth the attention of all Americans. King Charles III issued a terse statement...