Culture and Society

Sports columnist Jason Whitlock devotes the latest edition of Hillsdale College’s Imprimis to a key failure of American sports. Nearly 30 years ago, in a 1993 Nike commercial, professional basketball legend Charles Barkley fired the first shot at the “role model” concept popularized by Columbia University sociologist Robert…

Charles Fain Lehman of the Washington Free Beacon highlights mixed news about the coronavirus pandemic’s impact on American families. Americans are turning to their husbands and wives for support amid a nationwide pandemic that reveals the importance of strong families, results from a new survey suggest. Results from…

In an announcement sent on Wednesday to Princeton’s President, Christopher L. Eisgruber, DOE explained that the investigation had been triggered by an open letter that he sent to the university community on 9/2. From the DOE announcement: Since you became President in 2013, and in exchange…

North Carolina's total cases break down into recoveries (90% of cases), deaths (1.6% of cases), and active cases (8.3% of cases). But those make up a teeny little sliver of NC's total population.

What is gravity, and how does it work? Those basic questions form the basis of an article, “The Gravity of the Situation,” in the latest issue of The American Scholar (not yet posted online). Author Jethro Lieberman explains that the answers to the gravity questions might be too complex for…

Kari Travis reports for Carolina Journal Online on the impact of this year’s N.C. State Fair cancellation. John Hood’s Daily Journal highlights a former slave who blazed a trail for writers.

Ben Domenech writes for the Federalist about the potential long-term impact of pro athletes’ latest political antics. Pro sports is profoundly enjoyable as entertainment, and as human drama there are few things that can match it. But on a certain level, this Seinfeld comment may be his most…

Charles Murray dissects Ross Douthat‘s latest tome for the Claremont Review of Books. “Complaining about decadence is, almost by definition, a luxury good,” Ross Douthat observes in his new book, The Decadent Society. It is also an easy target for derision if returning to an un-decadent society…