Showing posts with label culture. Show all posts
Showing posts with label culture. Show all posts
Friday, January 02, 2026

The Way We Were: Doylestown PA mid-1950s

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Thursday, November 06, 2025

Mail Order Homes

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African American Life a Hundred Years Ago

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Not what most people would think.
Saturday, August 09, 2025

Reflections on the Decline of Civil Discourse

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In the Ruins of Public Reason, Part I: The Problem of Dialogical Illiberalism In the Ruins of Public Reason, Part II: The Barbarians at the ...
Thursday, August 07, 2025

A Trip Across America (mid 1930s)

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Thursday, June 26, 2025

Andrew Sullivan Takes on the Extremism in the Alphabet+ Movement

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To be honest, I am astonished that this was actually published by the New York Times. Mr. Sullivan just picked up a stick and and took a ver...
Monday, June 23, 2025

Food for thought

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Coal miners used to form study groups to read Gibbon & Thucydides. Lincoln and Douglas delivered speeches that lasted three hours with n...
Monday, October 21, 2024

Neighborhood Picnic 1920s

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Monday, September 02, 2024

From the crime blotter

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"Eight persons were arrested this morning for gambling at 136 Anthony Street and breaking the Sabbath. They were held to bail and to an...
Sunday, December 03, 2023

David Starkey: What is to be done?

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Tuesday, December 27, 2022

Is 2022 the Year We All Finally Got Tired of Narcissists?

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It’s been a good run for the narcissists. Over the past decade or so, a mix of shameless self-aggrandizement and self-confident charm has se...
Tuesday, September 06, 2022

Florida in the Roaring Twenties

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Home movies likely shot in 1926 right before the Great Hurricane devastated Miami and South Florida ending the land boom and plunging the ...
Thursday, October 28, 2021

Has "Wokeism" Become a de-facto religion for the left?

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Growing up in the 1990s, I was raised to be optimistic about American society. That society welcomed my parents from Pakistan with open arms...
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Monday, August 30, 2021

China Severely Restricts Video Game Play by Children

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Kids and teens under 18 years old in China will only be allowed up to three hours per week to play online video games, according to new rule...
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Tuesday, June 08, 2021

Making satire redundant

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 You can't make this up. 
Sunday, June 06, 2021

Communism is evolving. But the new version isn't any less toxic than the old

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On Thursday, I debated against the cult Slovenian philosopher Slavoj Žižek at the Cambridge Union. The motion? “This House believes that Mar...
Sunday, May 16, 2021

Gay Cops Not Welcome in NYC Pride Parade

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For years cops and firemen were forced to join this parade in uniform. Of course this was inevitable.  Details here .
Monday, May 10, 2021

France: Soldiers are writing open letters warning of civil war

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Serving members of the French military have fired a second salvo at Emmanuel Macron’s government in an open letter accusing it of “cowardice...
Saturday, March 27, 2021

Birthrate decline in the West is accelerating

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During the past year, living in the shadow of Covid, I have been completing a book on the big global trends in population. This forced me to...
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Thursday, February 25, 2021

America's Lost Classical Architecture

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