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 [...]