Category Archives: Culture
Science’s Greatest Scandal: The Horrifying History of Eugenics Asylums
It is rare that a mainstream media documentary is willing to confront the past and [...]
The Pre-Persons: Philip K. Dick’s Forgotten Abortion Horror Story
Few science fiction writers have acquired the pop culture success of Philip K. Dick. The [...]
Shiny Happy People, a Teenage Holy War, and the LGBT revolution
Prime Video’s 2023 documentary series Shiny Happy People: Duggar Family Secrets was a devastating salvo [...]
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Scotland’s birth rate at its lowest since 1855, the year it started keeping records
In a grim essay last December in First Things, British writer Louise Perry detailed a laundry [...]
Reading Gerald Durrell in the Amazon jungle
Despite my lifelong obsession with wildlife, I only discovered the great naturalist writer Gerald Durrell [...]
The Lost World of Sterling North’s Rascal
It was a hot, humid morning when we reached the Sterling North Home and Museum [...]
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‘P Diddy’ trial: the Religious Right was correct about the evils of the entertainment industry
For decades, mocking the “moral panics” of the Religious Right has been a favorite pastime [...]
The Orwellian Margaret Atwood
Margaret Atwood claims she may be “imprisoned” if she enters the United States—an absurd suggestion [...]
Review: Israel and the Future of Civilization
Douglas Murray’s On Democracies and Death Cults: Israel and the Future of Civilization begins with [...]
What the failure of Disney’s new ‘Snow White’ says about Hollywood’s moral rot
In Chapter 5 of my recent book How We Got Here: A Guide to Our Anti-Christian [...]