Brad Shorr
Dale Ahlquist, The Story of the Family: G.K. Chesterton on the Only State That Creates And Loves Its Own Citizens Public schools Two-income families Birth Control Abortion Divorce These cultural institutions are so commonplace that, with the exception of abortion, the vast majority of Americans accept them as simply the…
Tolstoy’s last major work was A Calendar of Wisdom, Daily Thoughts to Nourish the Soul. He wrote many of the sayings, and included or adapted those of many others. Often cited names include Marcus Aurelius, Cicero, Confucius,  Emerson, Goethe, Kant, Lao-Tzu, Blaise Pascal, Rousseau, John Ruskin, Seneca, Thoreau —along with…
There is one type of criticism that is constructive, when people criticize you to help you. There is another type of criticism, when people criticize you to help themselves. The things we hate in other people sometimes turn out to be things we hate in ourselves but do not see.…
It came to me in the middle of the night why we are, on the whole, so afraid, so desperately looking for someone to take care of us, so unable to make decisions, so welcoming of the Nanny State, so self-absorbed, so full of doubt, and so perpetually distressed. It’s…