Sex Assault Claims Don’t Prove Male Toxicity, But The Absence Of Masculinity by Robert Tracinski

Sex Assault Claims Don’t Prove Male Toxicity, But The Absence Of Masculinity

So we see some poor guy in the New York Times limp forward for the ritual self-flagellation of telling us that the problem is “the nature of men in general” and specifically “the often ugly and dangerous nature of the male libido” which requires “strenuous repression.” I always suspected the cultural left would circle back to Puritanism in the end. What strikes me about most of the allegations so far, however, is how unmasculine the men are. If there is a crisis of masculinity here, the crisis is its absence.

Brilliant analysis of the #MeToo focus on bad male behavior.

Human Dignity or Sexual Exploitation: We Can’t Have Both by Rob Schwarzwalder

Human Dignity or Sexual Exploitation: We Can’t Have Both

We cannot have it both ways. Our families are frayed and fraying more and more, even to the point that the very foundation of family — one man and one woman, married and faithful, for life — is being denigrated and redefined, both. Our society exalts sexual intimacy like the ancients exalted temple prostitution. Sex becomes a form of worship — worship of the self, a worship expressed in the employment of another solely for pleasure.
Our society proclaims equal dignity even as it strips women of it.

Needed truth in our #MeToo era.

With teen mental health deteriorating over five years, there’s a likely culprit by Jean Twenge

With teen mental health deteriorating over five years, there’s a likely culprit by Jean Twenge

What happened so that so many more teens, in such a short period of time, would feel depressed, attempt suicide and commit suicide? After scouring several large surveys of teens for clues, I found that all of the possibilities traced back to a major change in teens’ lives: the sudden ascendance of the smartphone.

Fascinating insight into today's youth. Smartphones and mental health. Some powerful conclusions here.

Taking the Catholic Out of Catholic Universities by Anne Hendershott

Taking the Catholic Out of Catholic Universities

Nowadays, however, rather than embracing the good, the true, and the beautiful, Catholic universities have adopted the same curricular fads as their secular peers, hosting departments of gender studies, black studies, ethnic studies, and gay and lesbian studies.

If this is what is happening on supposedly Christian campuses, where will it end?

Watch Shelby Steele Explain Race Issues in America by Ginni Thomas

Watch Shelby Steele Explain Race Issues in America

Steele’s advice to open-minded Americans beginning to reject group identity politics is simple – “You are free. There are no posses or lynch mobs after you. You are free.”

Refreshingly honest conversation on race.

Inside America’s Largest Religious Revival You Know Nothing About by Heather Smith

Inside America’s Largest Religious Revival You Know Nothing About by Heather Smith

Unquestionably, the ongoing success of Athletica is rooted in its centrality to the lives of its devotees. As Christianity fades in the West, dying from a desire to be like everything else except itself, Athletica has risen to the ascendance as the self-assured, pervasive cultural influence. Where the Judeo-Christian world has laid down its mantle, Athletica has picked it up, unwittingly following the directives of the Hebrew Bible to teach tenets of the faith to their children, “Talking of them when you are sitting in your house, and when you are walking by the way, and when you lie down, and when you rise.”

Sports worship is a rare, acceptable form of idolatry within the church.

Race and America’s Soul by Myron Magnet

Race and America’s Soul by Myron Magnet

What gives Gene Dattel’s Reckoning with Race: America’s Failure its special power is that, even after its bracingly original and thoroughly researched account of the racism of the abolitionist North from the late eighteenth century until long after the Civil War, the book nevertheless does not shrink from laying the ills of today’s black American underclass not at the door of a painful history, with ample blame for northern as well as southern whites, but squarely at the feet of black Americans themselves. Yes, shameful, deeply shameful, were slavery, Jim Crow, and northern racism, and who can doubt that they left grievous scars? Still, America fought a war to end the evil institution, had a civil rights movement to try to erase its malign remnants, and spent decades on affirmative action and other nostrums to expunge even the faintest remaining traces. Whatever white Americans could do to atone for and repair the damage they caused, they have done, as much as imperfect humans in an imperfect world can do. Now, Dattel argues, it’s up to black Americans to save themselves.

This is a powerful antidote to the current call for constant white guilt. 

Trump Has Broken the Apology Hypnosis on Race by J.B. White

Trump Has Broken the Apology Hypnosis on Race by J.B. White

Donald J. Trump, simultaneously as Deprogrammer-in-Chief and Liberator-in-Chief, was able through skillful utilization of his brilliant and relentless laser (yes, by this I mean his Twitter account) to break the apology hypnosis that was strangling the dominant ethnic group in the nation. It was no surprise when a majority of white males voted for him to be president in the general election.

Without the ability to shame whites into constantly feeling guilty and apologizing, the power of the Left may be finally broken.

The Surprising Revolt at the Most Liberal College in the Country by Chris Bodenner

The Surprising Revolt at the Most Liberal College in the Country by Chris Bodenner

This school year, students are ditching anonymity and standing up to RAR in public—and almost all of them are freshmen of color. The turning point was the derailment of the Hum lecture on August 28, the first day of classes. As the Humanities 110 program chair, Elizabeth Drumm, introduced a panel presentation, three RAR leaders took to the stage and ignored her objections. Drumm canceled the lecture—a first since the boycott. Using a panelist’s microphone, a leader told the freshmen, “[Our] work is just as important as the work of the faculty, so we were going to introduce ourselves as well.”

Hopefully we are finally seeing the tide turn on the college bullies. 

The Next Lost Cause by Michael Brandan Dougherty

The Next Lost Cause by Michael Brandan Dougherty

It is easy to imagine a writer who grew up reading Ta-Nehisi Coates on “the First White President” looking back at Bouie’s assertion that we have statues to Jefferson on account of his authorship of the Declaration of Independence with a jaundiced eye. That future man of letters will observe that the Declaration’s invocations of liberty and its pretensions of universalism were merely Whig propaganda against a King. He will assert that Jefferson did not actually believe that all men were so endowed by their creator. He will hasten to add that as America achieved the political sovereignty, Jefferson became more convinced of white supremacy, more secure in the view that white liberty could be guaranteed only through black bondage. Many reading this argument will conclude that by raising statues to Jefferson we are crediting him only for his hypocrisy, a privilege only white racists and slavers get in America. They will conclude, in other words, that America has spent centuries sanctifying its foundational hypocrisy. Land of the Free, home of the enslaved.

For Conservatives, the slippery slope is real and we are rapidly headed down it.