Arts & Culture blog
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Censorship is not popular. So why is it so popular?
Sensitivity readers and the authoritarian gene.
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Will they ever forgive Sammy Hagar for saving Van Halen?
Diehard fans resent the guy who raised the game.
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Does anyone think you can teach writing?
Dickens, Austen and Tolstoy didn’t go to writing school. Why do we?
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Tyler Fischer makes us all feel better about being canceled
An up-and-coming comedian embraces the role of based outsider.
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God uses marriage as the ultimate bait and switch
Our romantic view of love is used to grow us in uncomfortable ways.
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How Nabokov’s life of exile is now our own
Western culture has become the authoritarian enemy Nabokov fled.
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The Christmas we stayed at the Ronald McDonald House
We learn valuable lessons when we’re our most vulnerable.
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Is the Deep State curating our government playlist?
One person’s conspiracy is another person’s safeguard.
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Our special little guy turns six
Every milestone Percy reaches causes reflection on how far he’s come.
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Can there be kitchen table issues without a kitchen table?
The nuclear family has been replaced in American politics.
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Son of a biscuit—I was offered a senior citizen discount
Laughing off life’s absurd surprises can give our kids a valuable perspective.