We Abandon Social Conservatism at Our Own Peril
By Carlos Flores at Public Discourse. Fiscal conservatives, don’t be too quick to move on from social issues; they have fiscal impacts.
By “Johnny” at Granola Shotgun. This one is not actually about religion, but what is the state’s “religion?” Read to see.
Pronouns, Ordinary People, and the War over Reality
By Anthony Esolen, also at Public Discourse. (The Witherspoon Institute provides quality content, I must say.) This piece brings to mind Solzhenitsyn’s admonishment to “live not by lies.”
I’m An English Major Who Just Got Fired As A Barista. Here’s Where I Went Wrong
By David Breitenbeck at The Federalist. He cautions against going to college without a clear understanding of why you’re going. As someone who is currently enrolled at Georgia Tech, I concur with his assessment.
This is an excellent essay on poetry and the temptation towards sentimality by Benjamin Myers via First Things. A though-provoking line:
“Sentimentality is really a form of that deadly heresy of Gnosticism, which prefers airy spiritualization to God’s actual creation.”