Article by Len D. Pozeram, a review of the book ‘Dark Academia: How Universities Die’, by Peter Fleming.
Interesting that the author concludes that universities are unreformable. That’s what Jordan Peterson has said for a while, which is why he founded his own university.
Article by arch-libertarian Murray Rothbard.
Article by Michael Wood.
Excerpt:
How many of us know, for instance, that in the year AD37, the Church at Jerusalem sent one of the Seventy Apostles, named Aristobulus, to Britain as our first Bishop, landing at Hengist Head in company with several others? That he established the Christian faith to grow in this country from that time? This has been acknowledged by several Councils in Rome as making the British Church older than either the Church of Rome or the Church of Greece.
More on Aristobulus of Britannia here.
Helen Andrews in a video interview with the Daily Signal.
From the description:
For the past half decade or more, conservative intellectuals have tried to answer the question: Where did woke come from?
Some believe it is rebranded cultural Marxism. Others say it came from academia with the postmodern rejection of objective truth ultimately leading to the weaponization of culture. Maybe it came from the global corporations because woke is the ideology of the new managerial elite in late-stage neo-liberalism.
But perhaps “woke” and its offspring like “cancel culture” came from something called “The Great Feminization.”
Helen Andrews, author of “Boomers: The Men and Women Who Promised Freedom and Delivered Disaster,” recently wrote an essay called “The Great Feminization,” a term borrowed from the pseudonymous online writer J Stone, that explains how “woke” is “an epiphenomenon of demographic feminization.” She joins “The Signal Sitdown” this week to discuss.
“We had a big fight called feminism in the 1970s over whether or not we thought women could be lawyers. And we decided that they could, and that’s great,” Andrews explained. “But it took a long time to go from token representation of the kind that was achieved in the heyday of second wave feminism to what we have now.”
See also this videoed talk: Overcoming the Feminization of Culture.
In short: The two ways to overcome feminization is to remove the pro-women bias in recruitment and to remove the need for two-income households.
See also this CompactMag article ‘The Great Feminization‘.
See this response by ‘The LOOPcast’. The woman there says Andrews doesn’t go deep enough. This speaker emphasises motherhood.
Article by Chris Johnson.
Touchstone talk by Jonathan Pageau. Video here (prompted at the right place).
From the video description:
I explore how our modern world—built on endless disruption and self-expression—has reached its breaking point. We’re witnessing the collapse of a culture that forgot its source, but that’s also at the beginnings of renewal. From art and architecture to worship and storytelling, I share how Christians can remember, celebrate, and create once again—recovering beauty, meaning, and participation in the divine order. This is a moment of opportunity: to rediscover Christ as the pattern of reality and rebuild culture on that foundation.
In this podcast episode, Dr. Michael Thiessen, Pastor Nate Wright, and Dr. Joe Boot discuss the implications of Charlie Kirk’s death and the church’s response to it. They express concern over the reluctance of many church leaders to acknowledge Kirk’s martyrdom and the broader cultural implications of this silence. The conversation delves into the truncation of the gospel, the political nature of the Christian message, and the need for the church to engage with cultural issues rather than retreating into silence. They emphasize the importance of recognizing the gospel as a transformative force in society and the necessity of addressing violence and injustice from a biblical perspective.
Video of Interview Eric Metaxas leads with Paul Kingsworth, mainly about the tech companies’ leaders wanting to “transcend” humanity. And what to do against hat.
1 hour 17 minute interview by pastor Kendal ov “Prodcast”.
Article by Sebastian Wang.
Excerpts:
It is a strange age when ugliness is redefined as inclusion. When Canterbury Cathedral — seat of St Augustine, cradle of English Christianity, a place where kings once trembled before God — is reduced to a billboard for discontent and self-pity, one begins to understand how deep the spiritual rot now runs.
The true scandal is not the graffiti itself but the fact that the clergy are proud of it.
It is not a church but a performance venue with a cross on the roof.
When the Church chooses ugliness, she teaches a lie about herself and about God.