Oh My Word!

A Case Against Blasphemy
Free speech cannot be absolute where it portends absolute destruction.

Before formulating arguments about why blasphemy laws never work, before outlining the decisive points in favor of unfettered free speech, before launching into lectures about censorship and cancelations, separation of church and state, rights and freedoms and liberties, hypocrisy and hysteria, gather those excellent points, pack them t...

We’ve Left Little to Imagination
Uninspired creative endeavors are not faults of potential but culture.

Cloudless deep blue sky. Green coated hillsides. Calm ocean glimmering under a warm sun. A good day for a hike.

Others were of similar mind, parents and kids and friends relishing the beauty and the day. Some wore t-shirts and shorts, some leggings, tank tops, pants. And some wore colored spandex so form-fitting even bills ...

Make Morality Mainstream Again
The adultification of teen fiction has intentionally Frankensteined books for teens into cesspools of ideological normalization.

A while ago, I met a mother and her daughter, the latter of whom I hadn’t seen in several years. On the cusp of turning twelve, she’d obviously grown in the time since, and, her mother proudly informed me, had become quite the reader. Indeed, the girl held quite a thick book...

BECAUSE COULD IS NOT SHOULD, II
Legally could is not morally should, and untangling the two dooms the latter.

In the 1960s, Ralph Ginzburg’s conviction for promoting obscenity through his magazine of “literate eroticism” was appealed all the way to the Supreme Court. He lost the case, but NPR isn’t the only one to have dubbed him a “free speech icon” in the historical record. Debatable if what he fought for is considered free spee...

BECAUSE COULD IS NOT SHOULD
A man knows the difference between when women could and when women should.

Recently, I had a conversation with someone about women serving in the army.

The contention was that if a female can, then why shouldn’t she? Say the fitness tests didn’t have lower standards for women, say all qualifications were the same, if a woman passes them all, if a woman proves her strength and ability and agility to be on...

MAKE G-D MAINSTREAM AGAIN
The surgical removal of G-d from society must be undone with deliberate, persistent reintegra...

THE LIE OF TRUE LOVE In chasing the lie of “true love”, we’ve left actual values behind. Disney’s lost a lot of money. Critics, commentators, and consumers point to the woke-ification of content, including the recent fiasco of their race-swapped Snow White, who doesn’t seem to like the character, and her seven persons of non-dwarfism. The general reaction to their long string of remakes-no-one-asked-for has been a continual loweri...

BONUS! Episode of Oh My Word! Podcast, also a farewell-wrap up episode. Who know what will be, but the podcast is going on long-term hiatus. All episodes will still be available across listening platforms. Oh My Word! began three years ago in a "basement" hideaway for pearl clutchers, and over two hundred episodes later has been honored to host all sorts of wonderful guests from across the book world. Thank you to our guests for jo...

BONUS EPISODE! Host and author E. L. Tenenbaum goes behind the scenes of her book Shadow & Crown to...

BONUS! Episode featuring voice actor Ana Jacobsen!
Ana shares about becoming an audiobook reader, trying out di...