Entrance into the pundit class is highly restricted. It requires having the right credentials and knowing the right words. To get those, you have to spend your early life weaving through a series of ever more selective institutions where you learn how . . . Continue reading →
Culture Stuff
Princeton Seminary Catches Up With Machen On Segregation?
Almost three years ago there was a controversy over the disclosure and publication of Machen’s hitherto unpublished letter to his mother in which he mentioned his objection to B. B. Warfield over the latter’s plan to integrate the seminary’s dormitory. Predictably, Machen was denounced by social progressives. They might have spoken too soon, however, since apparently PTS has come to agree with Machen in principle and practice. Continue reading
The AMA Loses Its Mind (Or How Expressive Individualism Spreads Like A Cancer)
The American Medical Association, once a respect college of physicians, has recommended that biological sex be removed from birth certificates. Continue reading
Getting Around The Censors: Host Your Own Content
The days of orthodox Christians and other cultural conservatives being able to rely on social media to get out their message are over. According to a Wall Street Journal story (behind a paywall) yesterday: Continue reading
Wilfred McClay: The 1619 Project Is Historically False And Morally Corrosive
The 400th anniversary of the first landing of enslaved Africans at Jamestown could have been a great and unifying moment for America. It could have reinforced the assertion of African American scholar W.E.B. DuBois that “before the Pilgrims landed we were here,” . . . Continue reading →
60 Minutes Report On The State Of The Transgender Debate Is Illuminating
CBS News has released online Leslie Stahl’s 60 Minutes report on the state of the transgender debate. Continue reading
What It Means
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Understanding Our Brave New World
The “narrative” (as people say) and the algorithm are real. Continue reading
How The Tide Is Shifting (And Not In A Good Way)
As I mentioned in the latest episode of the Heidelcast, I am not a big fan of Oral Roberts (1918–2009). Please do not misunderstand me. He is a great American success story. Born in poverty, in Oklahoma, he helped to impel a . . . Continue reading →
What If Big Social Media Told You What They Have Planned For You?
Language caution: the subject of the interview makes a scatalogical reference. Resources How To Subscribe To Heidelmedia How To Make the Coffer Clink: Use the Donate Button Below This Post Heidelblog Resources The HB Media Archive Time To Learn (Or Relearn) How . . . Continue reading →
Did Public Education Really Introduce Mass Literacy?
Most Americans were illiterate before the creation of our public education system in the 1830s. That seems to be a popular assumption, but is it true? If you’re looking for statistics, they’re notoriously hard to get when it comes to literacy rates . . . Continue reading →
From A Former Insider: How Cosmo Sold The Lie Of The Sexual Revolution To Middle America
Before Facebook Cosmo Made You A Commodity
Ps. Rome is not your home. Resources How To Subscribe To Heidelmedia How to support Heidelmedia: use the donate button below Heidelblog Resources Heidelmedia Resources On Roman Catholicism Two Dark Sides Of The Sexual Revolution (UPDATED) Reno: Consequences Of The Institutionalization Of . . . Continue reading →
Camile Paglia Explains Fin de Siécle And The Rise Of Transgenderism
(HT: Ezra Levant)
It Is Not Edgy, Interesting, Or Lasting
There are socially conservative evangelicals who want to “take back America.” They are looking for a Christian version of the “Bad Orange Man” to critique the culture and to defend them from unbelief, feminism, and the social revolution. Like the social radicals, who are burning down businesses in pursuit of their eschatology, this evangelical apologist burns fields and pickup trucks.
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Church Services, Covid-19, Civil Liberties, And The Culture War
Grace Community Church, Sun Valley, CA has been at the center of a heated theological and cultural controversy over whether churches should abide by public health orders (ostensibly) intended to curb the Coronavirus and if so, how. As previously chronicled in this . . . Continue reading →
Of Masks And The Weaker Brothers
Introduction One of the stranger controversies to emerge in the broader Christian community and within congregations in the course of the Covid-19 pandemic has been over masks, whether the state has the authority to require citizens to wear masks, whether the church . . . Continue reading →
More Reasons To Leave The Public School (Or Antiracism Does Not Mean What You Might Think)
As cultural and political polarization reaches more and more areas of American life, one still holds out hope that schools can remain a relatively apolitical oasis where children can learn to read, write, and develop skills of socialization. The NCTE insists, however, . . . Continue reading →
Audio: Machen’s Testimony Against The Department Of Education
Another Podcast Recommendation: The Black History Fashion Show
I have been reading Lester Cahill for years and and I have been listening to his podcast since it began. Lester is one of my favorite contemporary writers and thinkers because he is independent, intelligent, passionate, and challenging. I always learn something from him. In one of his recent episodes (linked in the post) Lester critiques the recent Netflix series on Madam C. J. Walker and, in another, he introduces us to the founder of an early Black American entrepreneur. Continue reading →
The Coming Attack On Homeschooling And Educational Freedom?
One of the unexpected outcomes of the Covid-19 shutdown/quarantine has been the widespread turn to homeschooling. Parents are being asked en masse to become intimately involved (again) with the education their children. For some parents, it means making sure that their children . . . Continue reading →