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Culture

How Can We Make Something As Big As Culture?

| December 12, 2014 | Society

How Can We Make Something As Big As Culture?
“Frying frittata cakes layered the air with pungent promise.” —“Great Sky River,” Gregory Benford To me, the above sentence is one of the most beautiful in all of modern literature. It’s just one of those combinations of sounds that roll off the tongue in a...
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Jacqueline Isaacs
Jacqueline Isaacs is the Director of Strategy for Bellwether Communications, where she crafts content strategies for thought leaders.

“Interstellar” and a Lesson on Craftsmanship

| November 14, 2014 | Society

“Interstellar” and a Lesson on Craftsmanship
My husband and I pay to go to about one movie a year in theaters. Not that we aren’t into movies—we often rent or stream them in the comfort of our home, but very few motivate us to pay the theater fares and brave the theater crowds. “Interstellar,” however, had my...
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Jacqueline Isaacs
Jacqueline Isaacs is the Director of Strategy for Bellwether Communications, where she crafts content strategies for thought leaders.

Bono Helped Kill an Industry (and Then Celebrated)

| September 18, 2014 | Economics, Faith

Bono Helped Kill an Industry (and Then Celebrated)
It was on the day of the largest album launch in history, when the biggest rock band on the planet may have surrendered the music industry to its grave, that U2 frontman Bono declared “music is a sacrament.”  The melodies that Plato said give “flight...
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Michael Hendrix
Michael Hendrix is the director of state and local policy at the Manhattan Institute, where he manages scholars, conducts research, and leads outreach.

Why Christians Should Have More Non-Christian Friends

| September 12, 2014 | Faith

Why Christians Should Have More Non-Christian Friends
If you are a white, evangelical millennial in America, the fewer non-Christian friends you have, the less likely you are to abide by traditional Christian convictions. That was the conclusion of a paper presented at last month’s American Political Science Association...
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Tyler Castle
Tyler Castle is the director of AEI's Initiative on Faith & Public Life. He is a graduate of Westmont College and a former John Jay Institute Fellow.