CATEGORY: CULTURE (8 MIN) 

The death of birth

Repeated attacks on ceremonies like the coronation typify the modern response to tradition. After all, modernity has given us the greatest technological, medical, and (many progressives would contend) cultural advances of our time. Surely, there is no significant cost to throwing tradition aside! 

The greatest cost, Louise Perry argues, is our very survival.  

Writing for The Spectator, Perry warns the U.K, and the rest of the West by extension our society’s fertility will collapse without tradition. And without fertility, society itself faces disaster. 

“[T]here are not enough babies being born and the sticking plaster of mass migration is not going to hold for much longer. This is the most urgent political problem of our times and almost no one is talking about it,” Perry argues. 

Perry points to statistics revealing a steep drop in birth rates, and she connects them to many progressive movements. Modern feminism, gender identity confusion, and falling religious attendance all combine to help cause this decline in delivery. Perry calls for the government and individuals to work together and use old traditions to find a way to stop this dangerous trend. 

Discover some of her proposed solutions here. 

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“UChicago Disciplines Transgender Student for Vandalizing TPUSA Free Speech Demonstration” via The Chicago Thinker
“The Turning Point USA (TPUSA) chapter at the University of Chicago held a pro-free speech demonstration on campus that was met with violent opposition and vandalism by a transgender student.”

CATEGORY: POLITICS (3 MIN) 

The great uniter

Of course, Charles only ascended to the British throne this year because of his mother’s death last fall. Queen Elizabeth II reigned for more than 70 years, and during her long tenure, she commanded nearly universal admiration. Her passing led to worldwide outpourings of affection and sadness—a rarity in this age. 

For our Intercollegiate Review archive, Daniel McCarthy, Vice President for ISI’s Collegiate Network and editor of Modern Age, discusses the lessons Queen Elizabeth can teach America. McCarthy contrasts the unity around supporting the Queen with the disunity dogging both American and British politics today.  

McCarthy notes the vital importance of the popularity of the Crown to the unity of the nation. He lauds the Queen for refraining from involving herself in political debates and keeping herself above the crises and scandals that could have otherwise tarnished her reputation. 

And although America has no monarch, McCarthy draws a parallel between the reverence for Queen Elizabeth and the honor we ought to give the memory of our Founding. Without an attachment to the past that made us, McCarthy says, we face a drifting, aimless, vicious future. 

Read McCarthy’s piece (featured in Modern Age) right here. 

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