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Monthly Archives: April 2011

Can a Couple of Beautiful Celebrities Save the Monarchy?

  SUZANNE writes: Kate Middleton is just another nail in the downfall of the British monarchy and the death of Britain. She is not a virgin (for which she is praised), will not obey her husband, is not refined and ladylike as she seems plus she has cohabitated with Prince Williams seven to eight years before [...]

A Would-be King with No Subjects

  WHEN they were wed yesterday, Kate Middleton rejected the traditional wedding vow and did not promise to obey her husband. At VFR last week, I wrote: How can a man be king when he can’t even secure the obedience of his wife? Wifely obedience comes directly from the New Testament, was an ideal in Western [...]

Let the Wedded Party Begin

  WILL the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge be anything but glorified party-ers now that the wedding is over? Adam Lovejoy writes: The problem with Prince William is that he thinks that because he has lost his mother, Princess Diana, he has some God given right to do whatever he pleases – as if the tragic death [...]

“They Got a Name for Guys Like That”

  IN THE the 1931 movie “Bad Girl,” a husband reacts to his wife’s suggestion that she get a job so they can have an apartment of their own. He explodes in anger (go to minute 09:09). “My idea of a husband is a guy that looks after a wife and takes care of her… If I can’t do [...]

The Royal Wedding

  A ROYAL WEDDING is an entirely different affair in the age of the Internet, with even relatively intimate moments, such as when the bride is adjusting her gown in the car, brought to the entire world. If you are one of the small handful of people on the planet who has not watched snippets [...]

Tornadoes in Alabama

  THE TORNADOES that touched down in the Southeast on Wednesday and Thursday were among the deadliest in U.S. history. The winds are believed to have exceeded 300 miles an hour. Among those killed was Tom Lee, a father of 13 children in Alabama. A tornado hit a community of Christian homeschooling families. The home of [...]

 

When Men Ask Their Wives to Work

  AT HER blog Home Living, Lydia Sherman argues that it is is wrong for a man to ask his wife to work. She writes: There was a time when most people on the earth, even those not religious at all, would not argue about the women being allowed to stay home and be in charge [...]

Dreaming of Being Mrs. Hayek

  HOW MANY WOMEN in the world are madly, passionately, overwhelmingly, heart-stoppingly in love with the deceased economist and social thinker Friedrich Hayek? Here is one.

The Un-Read Book

  THERE are many trashy books that do not deserve to be read. Still there’s something profoundly unsettling about the use of books for interior decorating.

The Lie of Unequal School Funding

  A CONNECTICUT mother faces charges of fraud because she lied about where she was living in order to get her son into a better public school. The mother is black and the school she had enrolled her son in was largely white. So intense is the drive to prove the deliberate denial of education to blacks that [...]

Is it Possible to Dress Well and Not Be Accused of Elitism?

  A YOUNG MALE READER writes: Men’s clothing has not fared any better. Any given article of traditional men’s clothing is marked by loyalty to custom and accrued wisdom. Yet an assembly of them betrays an incredible variety of textures and origins, the fruit of trade and empire. The offerings are more cosmopolitan than a [...]

And We Must Loathe the Duties of the Wife-to-Be

  TINA BROWN, who has made Newsweek even less interesting than it was before, applies the predictable amount of contempt to the subject of the pending royal marriage. Of Kate Middleton, she writes: Now that she’s engaged to be married to the second in line to the throne, her life is about to get more boring still. The palace [...]

Modesty Is Not Prudery

  MODESTY is not the same as prudery, as is discussed in this entry. A reader also suggests retailers that sell more modest women’s clothing than what is generally available and vintage clothes, including the dress above.

Good Friday in Italy

  AT HER BLOG Galliawatch, Tiberge reports that Muslims took to the streets in Rome to pray in large crowds on Good Friday and that for the first time in history the call to prayer was broadcast in Arabic through loudspeakers from a minaret in Milan. Tiberge also reports on the vandalizing of churches in France during Holy [...]