In today’s cultural discourse, few terms are wielded with as much venom and imprecision as “toxic masculinity.” Popularized by progressive academics and amplified by corporate media, the phrase has come to represent everything wrong with traditional manhood—assertiveness, strength, leadership, competitiveness, and even stoicism. The assumption is clear: masculinity is a problem that must be fixed.…
Were the Hippies Proto-Woke? A Christian Analysis of Two Revolutions
From the flower power days of the 1960s to the flag-burning protests of today, America has witnessed multiple waves of cultural rebellion. While today’s culture warriors are driven by Neo-Marxist ideology and “woke” activism, an earlier generation sparked a different revolution—one that traded suits and sermons for tie-dye and psychedelics. But were the Hippies just…