Society & Culture

“their views and policy priorities simply can be ignored by the real leaders of the current GOP because there is no reason to concede anything to people whose vote you will have no matter what.” - Mere Orthodoxy

2024: 47% of Republicans/Republican-leaning “said they were extremely or very concerned about restrictions on press freedoms.” Democrats /Democratic-leaning:38%. Today:Democrats (60%), Republicans (28%). - Pew

“With the many illiberalisms duking it out in the public square, from both left and right, a new book puts forth what should be a clear winner: a decidedly conservative defense of ordered liberty” - Dan Darling

“At its best, Christianity is not a moralistic religion — in other words, it does not place the expectation of perfect behaviour at its core. It is repentance and reconciliation, not respectability, that are central to the internal logic of the faith. The Christian moral system is also coherent and predictable.” - Unherd

“Business harnesses human creativity and energy to benefit mankind in unique and powerful ways. Far from being immoral, business and markets help people develop virtue as they create value and wealth for themselves and others.” - L&L

“…and to all of the people who CHEATED in the 2020 Presidential Election in order to get this highly destructive Moron Elected, I wish you, with great love, sincerity, and affection, a very Happy Easter!!!” - C.Leaders

“In 2023, the two U.S. metropolitan areas with the highest shares of 25- to 34-year-olds living in a parent’s home were Vallejo, California, and Oxnard-Thousand Oaks-Ventura, California, each with 33%…. only about 3% of young adults lived in a parent’s home in Odessa, Texas; Lincoln, Nebraska; Ithaca, New York; and Bloomington, Indiana.” - Pew

“People are breaking free not with bolt cutters but with deeply personal acts of spiritual rebellion, rejecting the rationalized, systematized, and institutionalized religious constructs of modernity in favor of more dynamic, diverse, and syncretic expressions.” - CPost

“In Every Valley, Charles King, a professor at Georgetown University, describes this monumental performance in great detail. But his story begins many years earlier, charting Handel’s rise to celebrity status in one of the most polarized ages of British history.” - Plough

“The percentage of U.S. adults evaluating their lives well enough to be considered ‘thriving’ on Gallup’s Life Evaluation Index stood at 48.9% in Quarter 1, 2025, matching the previous estimate from Quarter 4, 2024…. the first time since spring 2020 that the thriving rate has been under 50% for two consecutive measurement periods” - Gallup