Category Archives: Culture

On the road with Laura Ingalls Wilder

Telling people that your family just visited De Smet, South Dakota, generally produces quizzical looks. [...]

According to the media, being Christian makes you “far-right”–or “alt-right”

I have been writing about the alt-right since the movement—which has since largely collapsed—surged onto [...]

New Disney show ‘Pauline’ features teenage girl who gets pregnant after one-night stand with Satan

It has become somewhat passé to complain about the Walt Disney Company. Once a titan [...]

Tyler Childers, Kelsea Ballerini and the queering of country music

Earlier this year, I was contacted by a journalist for Society, a biweekly print magazine about [...]

Martin Amis and the Sexual Revolution

Novelist, memoirist, and literary celebrity Martin Amis died at his Florida home on May 19, [...]

Why Tucker Carlson Says You Must Build a Home Library

In a Q and A after his last speech before he was fired from Fox News, [...]

Rolling Stone’s hit piece on Matt Walsh only proves the success of ‘What is a Woman?’

By Jonathon Van Maren A couple of weeks ago, Rolling Stone published an essay intending to expose [...]

Cormac McCarthy gave us the best portrayal of fatherhood in American literature

By Jonathon Van Maren Cormac McCarthy, a titan of American literature, died this week at [...]

Shiny Happy People: What the Duggar documentary tells us about post-Christian America

By Jonathon Van Maren As the culture wars intensify and the West moves from post-Christian [...]