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   If you have children and observe the difference in their behavior between environments, you will notice radical differences between how they act around their family and in their own home and how they act in every other environment with everyone else. Their attitudes and behavior are not at all uniform and have a veryContinue reading “The psychology of “luxury beliefs””

Does the existence and pervasiveness of pornography essentially commit all women to the inescapable fact of virtual polygamy? Usage statistics are so enormous among men, and the social norms forbidding it are so absolutely in tatters, that it’s virtually an inescapable condition of sexual relationships from now on. You’re not going to find anyone whoContinue reading “Is pornography polygamy?”

An excerpt from an exchange I had with a European writer, who was very critical of American equalitarianism and was in favor of a return to a more (old school) European, hierarchical, class-based system of government. In his opinion the American experiment was corrupted from the beginning by an insistence on the equality of allContinue reading “Freedom and equality”

I think one of my greatest disagreements with Bret and Heather Weinstein is their idea of not being able to go back. I think it’s part of their own underlying evolutionary ideological vision. And in a sense, it’s right. You’re always going into the future. But going back, return, as a metaphorical moral and ideologicalContinue reading “Can we ever go back?”

What no one is really willing to say, in part because there’s so much built up resentment and guilt that it makes the admission possible, is that women aren’t able to be happy without men and can’t survive without them. Before I get pilloried for saying that, let me observe that it’s equally true thatContinue reading “Love your enemy”

In response to an ecomonist saying that cultural questions aren’t relevant to economic policy. I have to disagree that cultural and economic issues are seperable. Thomas Sowell is probably the best economist on that subject. Economics is a function of the social structure, because all productivity is a function of human production, which is dependentContinue reading “Culture and economics”

I would say that the people making these complaints are themselves the ones with a white savior complex, and they need to stop trying to be the voice from the outer world. They need to read Dune and learn about the dangers of such a complex. Dune could actually instruct them quite a bit onContinue reading “Is “Dune” a white savior story?”

Hi Rob, I very much enjoyed hearing you talk to Jordan on his podcast. And I saw that you’re still crazy enough to openly display your contact info on your website, so I wanted to send you a short note.     I really appreciated hearing your perspectives. I’m terribly worried about what the futureContinue reading “A letter to the author of “Luxury Beliefs””

    TV, like so many other things, is a tool. A powerful tool. And it’s only as good or as bad as the people who wield it and the purposes they apply to it.     When we complain of the effects of a technology, we are really only complaining about people, about ourselvesContinue reading “Is modern media evil?”

    I recently saw Showboat and Gone with the Wind, as well as most of Oklahoma, all movies I had missed up until now, but all were important parts of my wife’s childhood. Her family is very southern, and I had always avoided a lot of Americana, but most especially things to do withContinue reading “Old movie musicals”

    Blaming Instagram for the terrible outcomes it has for teenage girls is a bit like suing a highway construction company for the way people drive on it. Instagram, after all, doesn’t create any of the content, it just created the platform. Yes, there’s a certain design at play in the forum, but theContinue reading “Blaming social media”

The New Testament is only coherent in the context of the Old Testament. And I’m not saying that merely as a Biblical critic or a philosopher. It’s clearly built into the structure of the New Testament, and if you believe it, into history itself. There is a process unfolding, and you can’t ignore the foundationContinue reading “The gospel isnt the only good news”

    Many people, women especially, see their work as consisting mostly in the fair distribution of goods, taking little thought for how things are produced, but rather assuming it. This isn’t a fault, it’s simply a tendency of how their thought leans, an approach, an area of special interest. But what lies outside thatContinue reading “Implicit sexual biases”

I recently watched a series of interviews of people who lived through the sixties, done in the 90s, reflecting on who they were and what they believed and did, and how things actually turned out and how they had changed thirty years later. Suffice to say, things turned out very differently than they expected. TheyContinue reading “Generational perspective”

  Fear and freedom are always in tension. It isn’t obvious that there is a fixed, correct amount of either. The two exist as opposing impulses. One can easily erode the other. As fear decreases freedom increases, the available options open up. But that only makes sense if those options are relatively equally safe andContinue reading “Nature, society, and the law”

   I don’t believe you can prove the woke ideology wrong in a way that will be truly convincing to its faithful adherents. It is only by its results that it will be truly known and judged, in the end. Jesus said people would know his followers by the love they had for one another.Continue reading “A rational or empirical end to woke?”

I think there’s a mistake being made in many corners of our culture. And it explains a lot. How conservatives failed to pass on their values, why the educational system is more essential to the character of a culture than its government, the decentralized and social nature of the current revolution in thought, all theContinue reading “The root sickness in our society”

I don’t mind if you make a mess, as long as you clean it up.  I don’t mind if you explore, as long as you can find your way back.  I don’t mind if you experiment, as long as you deal with your failures.  I don’t mind if you do something your way, as longContinue reading “For my children”

   I’ve had some time to think about your sermon, Smithy. I think it was bold of you to try to thread some tricky needles. It’s unfortunate you have to spend so much time on such issues, when the real point of the story has little to do with them. Real or poetic, the pointContinue reading “A letter to a pastor about Jonah”

Children are the hand of the past reaching toward the future.     The strange thing about our children is that they’re clearly their own thing, their own life. But the more you think about it, the more your realize there is only one life, and all we do is hand it on, not create it. Continue reading “The enigma of life”