Being Gay Isn’t So Hot Anymore

Humanity has a rather unfortunate habit of getting things wrong. Kids figure this out fairly quickly. One day they discover (and it happens quite suddenly) that Mom’s name is not, in fact, “mom,” but something else entirely, like Susan or Beth. The idea is strange to them at first. Then,…

Aubrey Harris

An Open Letter to Europe

I love Europe. I took a job unexpectedly in Milan, Italy, when I was just 22 years old. I had graduated from college less than a year earlier, and my first real experience of adulthood was not in America, but in Europe. I did not arrive as a tourist drifting…

Drew Allen

Time Magazine’s Man of the Year and the Abolition of Humanity

When C. S. Lewis wrote The Abolition of Man in 1943, he warned of trends in modern education that “remove the organ and demand the function.” That is, he rejected the notion of a purely utilitarian approach to learning that removes what philosophers going back to Plato and Augustine have…

Melissa Henson

The Spectacle Ep. 317: Invoke the Insurrection Act on Minnesota Now!

Anti-ICE protesters, including former CNN host Don Lemon, interrupted a church service in Minnesota to stage a takeover. The “activists” infiltrated the religious service due to word that the pastor worked for ICE. (READ MORE: Was That Church Attack the Tipping Point in Minnesota?) Unlicensed Punditry author Michael Smith joins…

Melissa Mackenzie

Thank You, Trump, for Reminding Europe’s Leaders How Utterly Stupid They Are

The Davos gathering used to be a long litany of lamentations. The apostles of climate doom would arrive in their private jets, dine well, do those things they do when their wives aren't traveling with them, mount the Davos altar, and deliver their apocalyptic prophecies of the type: "The end…

Itxu Díaz