He is best known for “Don Quixote”, but the eventful life of Spain’s revered author Miguel de Cervantes was just as intriguing as any adventures of the delusional wanna-be knight of his famous novel. Cervantes — whose death on April
Secularism has succeeded in subverting the concept of separation of church and state until it no longer bears any resemblance to its original intent (preventing the establishment of a state religion). Instead, it is now used to stamp out any public expression of faith.
It is one of the principles upon which Breitbart News was founded: Culture is upstream from politics. But what does that really mean?
Foreigners who want to become U.S. citizens don’t have to change their attitudes or beliefs, President Barack Obama said in a new video. Neither Obama’s speech, not the accompanying website, suggest that new citizens should be proud of their new nation’s culture and history
Guantanamo Bay is not standing in the way of prisoner Muhammad Rahim al-Afghani’s desire to find love. His lawyer Carlos Warner runs account an account for the terrorist on Match.com.
As the Islamic State rampages across the Middle East, destroying lives, killing off Christian communities, and smashing ancient cultural artefacts, the British government has vowed to act – by finally ratifying a Convention to protect those artefacts, 61 years after it
As Malaysia moves closer to becoming a strict Islamic country, young Muslims escape their suffocating reality with the help of “pulp fiction” from pop-up bookstores in Kuala Lumpur.
George Carlin’s classic critique of football and baseball strikes today as slightly yesterday. But his premise easily extrapolates to compare and contrast the good ol’ US of A and all our funny-sounding international neighbors, who seem to adore a kicky-kick sport (what we call “soccer”) managed by the honorable men of FIFA.
We keep hearing about how awful it is that with the rise of the Internet people now flock to news sites that fit their worldview. We keep hearing about how awful it will be if the 500 channel cable television
As Mad Men begins to wrap-up with only three episodes left in the series, I’ve been watching every episode twice. A few weeks ago a line Peggy Olson said struck me as totally out of sync with today’s times.
Taking part in the kick-off of the Cosmo Harms Minors campaign this past week, Dr. Alveda King said Cosmopolitan’s content helps “line the pockets of the abortion industry” and that “Planned Parenthood is joining with Cosmo” to “lead that girl into an abortion.”
A Buzzfeed report claims Russian President Vladimir Putin once recommended action movie star Steven Seagal as an official intermediary between himself and President Obama, following years of public friendship between Seagal and the Russian head of state.
Eight California state lawmakers are urging San Francisco Archbishop Salvatore Cordileone to withdraw clauses in his handbook for archdiocesan high school teachers that require them to espouse Catholic teachings on sexual morality.
Michelle Obama says she’s confident she can help change the eating habits of an entire generation of children.
While Kim Kardashian is unable to contain herself in her endorsement of the highly controversial film adaptation of the book Fifty Shades of Grey, health experts are warning parents of the dangers of allowing the film’s explicit bondage, domination, and sadomasochistic (BDSM) sexual violence to seep into what is considered “acceptable” in American culture.
Big box family retailer Target is cashing in on the media hype of the bondage-and-sadomasochistic-themed Fifty Shades of Grey film, set to hit theaters this Valentine’s Day weekend.
The Super Bowl is known as much for its ads as for its football. This year, those ads seemed oddly disconnected from the sporting event.
Parents at Academy Charter School (ACS) in Castle Rock, Colorado are outraged that “Challenge” programs presented at the school, during which 5th– and 6th-graders were required to share intense personal feelings and information about themselves and their families with their classmates,
Four middle school students in Wisconsin have been arrested and are facing sexual assault charges after a report that they recorded their “sex party” on their phones.
Yevgeny Savostyanov, head of Russia’s Coordination Council on Intellectual Property Protection, quit after he witnessed a major crackdown on cultural “matters of public interest” within Russia. He criticized Culture Minister Vladimir Medinsky in an open letter before he left.
