New developments in the famous banana duct taped to the wall. It turns out that the fruit in question was actually a fraud. Little did last Friday’s afternoon onlookers at the Gallery of the prestigious Art Basel in Miami know that “The Comedian,” created by world-renowned Italian artist Maurizio Cattelan, Read more…
We took Nigerian Bishop Jwan Zhumbes to New York City to appear on The Eric Metaxas Show. He enjoyed himself. More importantly, his message of persecution is one that needs to be heard. Watch the Video Now Share this article! Larry Alex Taunton is an author, cultural commentator, and freelance Read more…
The Taunton Men love college football. A couple of years ago, we started an annual tradition: we would travel to one of the sport’s iconic stadiums to see one of the “blue bloods” play in what we hope will be a good game against a team other than Alabama. By Read more…
It has been quite some time since we gave you an update on progress at Duck River. For the uninitiated, Duck River Ranch is a property about an hour north of Birmingham, Alabama. We have been developing it for more than a year. (You can read the introductory blog here.) Read more…
In 1955, Nobel laureate John Steinbeck wrote a hilarious letter to Marilyn Monroe requesting an autographed photo of the starlet preferably “in a pensive, girlish mood.” But the photo, he assured her, wasn’t for him. It was for his nephew. Yeah. Sure it was. Read the full story at openculture.com Read more…
In 1967, the botched circumcision of an anonymous baby boy led to a horrifying 12-year effort to turn a boy into a girl. Known as the “John/Joan Case,” the experiment was presented everywhere as a smashing success and proof that sexual orientation was a product of nurture, not nature. I Read more…
A generation ago, cultural critic Neil Postman published the clever little book Amusing Ourselves to Death. In it, Postman considers the rival dystopian visions of Aldous Huxley and George Orwell as articulated in their classic novels Brave New World and 1984. Read More On The American Spectator Share this article! Read more…
Jwan Zhumbes, The Anglican Bishop of Bukuru, Nigeria, is interviewed by Danny Wood, the Senior Pastor of Shades Mountain Baptist Church at an event for the Persecuted Church.
Brantley, Alabama, population 809, isn’t known for much. Indeed, I have spent most of my life in Alabama and had never heard of it. I mean this as no slight. I am not a big city snob, and I love America’s small towns that, collectively, go far to defining this Read more…
University of Oxford developmental psychologist Dr. Olivera Petrovich has spent years researching a single question: Are children predisposed to belief in a transcendent being? Read Full Article on The American Spectator Larry Alex Taunton is an author, cultural commentator, and freelance columnist contributing to USA TODAY, Fox News, First Things, The Atlantic, CNN, and The American Spectator. In Read more…