A deer left to age out in the woods, explains Sebastian Morello in The European Conservative, loses its teeth and dies in excruciating pain from undigested food, parasites or over-eager scavengers. A quick, clean death from hunting – “stalking” as the Scots call it – is far more merciful. But stalking is itself dying a slow, agonizing death in Great Britain due to the rise of “sentimentalism” – a self-righteous but counterfeit emotion driven by narcissism.

Bad Mom? Bad Wife?
The Massachusetts trial of Lindsay Clancy for killing her three young children (recently declared a mistrial) became a litmus test for couples – with some publicly breaking off engagements due to disagreements over her culpability. Writing in The American Mind, Evie Solheim ponders the malign influence of social media on the marriage decision for younger generations. “When men and women treat existence as a zero-sum game, everyone loses,” she writes, pleading for greater understanding between the sexes. For more on marriage, see this C2C article.


