I once asked the nothingness, What shall I do? What shall I do? And, a voice spoke. Do nothing. Stay where you are.

      JACK W. writes: I am young and in the position of trying to change a liberal, but naturally feminine woman. This can be very difficult, especially with a woman who is attached to liberalism for non-rational reasons (for example if her family or social identity involves allegiance to feminist ideals) and resists purely [...]

   WESTERN SOCIETY is steadily reverting to matriarchy and witnessing the progressive erosion of democracy. The two developments go hand-in-hand because it is impossible to maintain democracy with large numbers of female-headed households. Formal recognition of paternal authority is necessary to reverse this trend. Men should have primary custody of their biological children, as was commonplace in Western democracies two hundred [...]

  LIV writes: I have been reading your blog for a half a year now. I actually started calling myself a traditionalist a year before that, after I spent some time abroad on my own and, for lack of a better expression,  saw the light. Your blog has been a great help to me. I started [...]

  JOHN E. writes: In this entry, Adam Skelton wrote:    I’m completely in the traditionalist camp, but I do think that Christianity needs to be disassociated from young earth creationism. It’s really not an intellectually tenable position, and whenever I hear a Christian preacher or teacher advocate it it makes me cringe. If we [...]

  IN TOLSTOY’S famous novel about female betrayal, the title character, Anna Karenina, is forced to abandon her young child in order to live with her lover. The tension between maternal love for her son and sexual passion is a running theme throughout the book and ultimately contributes to her death, wherein the beautiful Anna throws herself under the wheels of [...]