The Fifth Column

People are complaining about grade inflation again. They simply don't understand how education works. You have to understand that educat...

Hinduism dates back to at least 2300 BC in the Indus Valley civilization. Some scholars suggest origins as far back as 4000 to 10,000 BC Bu...

The world's cardinals have elected South Americans twice in a row.  They are clearly concerned about South America. During the decade Po...

Capitalism depends on growing global TFR and growing population. That's gone. Capitalism was a SUPERB ride, gave us everything we have, ...

 First Things has published an essay with the same name, in which the author bloviates about the moral problems with IVF, which are - admitt...

Scott Hahn's book, The Fourth Cup , turns out to be pure bullshit. The Seder ritual Hahn wrote his book about was developed long after t...

 Thomas Sowell observes , "Much of the social retrogression that took place on both sides of the Atlantic is traceable to the central t...

Up until 1800, the world's population was under one billion people. For almost two millennia, the Catholic Church was the world's la...

 Up until 1913 (when the income tax was instituted), 80-90% of federal revenue was tariffs. You can invoke Smoot-Hawley or 1930 all you want...

Is Joe Biden a worse Catholic than JD Vance, or vice versa?  The Church teaches a hierarchy of sin. Some mortal sins are worse than other mo...

Jeff Goldberg claims to have been part of a top-secret Signal chat. He provided evidence that he was. The question is, how did that happen? ...

The reason educational institutions exist is to grab government loan and grant money and give it to administrators. That is the only reason ...

There are many reasons why the modern university is slowly decaying away, but AI will certainly number among them. According to Britannica...

 This is why prenups are important. https://www.facebook.com/reel/554387583700666 Every marriage has a prenup, even if it doesn't have a...

Teaching is about making the student love a subject so much, that the student WANTS to learn more. Most teachers, including myself, aren...

 So, here's a conundrum:  A woman can get pregnant around age 12 (puberty) But pregnancy at age 12 is dangerous, as the rest of her body...

For most of Christian history, the legal age of marriage was 12 for both men and women. By refusing to allow marriage until age 18, Christi...

When you want to "harden" a server, you turn off and uninstall any software programs that are not actively being used. This is cal...

So, I had a tremendously interesting discussion last night about Romans 8, which is well worth exploring in more detail. It revolves around ...

Statista lists around 5.3 million Jews killed:  https://www.statista.com/statistics/1287892/holocaust-jewish-deaths-by-location/ BBC lists a...