By now I’m sure many of you are aware of Charlotte Allen’s terrible article in the National Review. She writes: There was not a single adult male on the school premises when the shooting occurred. In this school of 450 … Read more →
Emily Esfahani Smith is arguing in The Atlantic that we should revive chivalry as a behavioral standard beneficial to both men and women. Smith asserts, using the examples of the Titanic and Costa Concordia sinkings, that our society has seen … Read more →
A couple of disclaimers before I go into this post: I am not an expert on maritime history. It is not my intent to impugn the memories of people who were genuinely heroic and self-sacrificing. It is my intent to … Read more →
Now that I’ve talked about Brave and Song of the Lioness, I thought I’d write about chivalry in an historical context, and the sentimentalized manner in which it has been harnessed by the Christian Patriarchy movement. Medieval chivalry was not … Read more →