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Daniel Lattier

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  • Why You Shouldn’t Rage Against Last-Second Mergers

    Why You Shouldn’t Rage Against Last-Second Mergers0

    A scenario many of us experience on a weekly basis: You’re stuck in traffic on a two-lane highway, and the lanes converge into one up ahead. You merged early, and have been patiently waiting your turn behind other cars. Then some jerk zooms by in the other lane, goes all the way to where lane ends,

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  • How People Used to Celebrate ‘Midsummer Night’

    How People Used to Celebrate ‘Midsummer Night’0

    Tonight, June 23, is the setting for Shakespeare’s play “A Midsummer Night’s Dream.” The setting was chosen for the fanciful comedy, presumably, because of the character of the feasting that took place throughout Europe on this night in times past. In his introduction to the 1878 edition of the play, Samuel Neil provides us with

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  • This is What Happens When Education Loses Its Purpose

    This is What Happens When Education Loses Its Purpose0

    The student protesters at Evergreen State College in Washington are becoming more unreasonable. In a May 24 meeting with the school’s seemingly spineless president, George Bridges, the protestors demanded (among other things) that he excuse them from their end-of-the-term homework, and that he provide them a gumbo (!) potluck.     Yesterday, an article by my

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  • Why Americans Must Once Again Become ‘Good Pagans’

    Why Americans Must Once Again Become ‘Good Pagans’0

    Many of you know C.S. Lewis as a Christian apologist. But in an interesting and little-known letter, C.S. Lewis told a Roman Catholic priest in 1953 that he thought it was crucial to worry first about making the younger generations “good pagans” before trying to make them Christians. Here is the relevant paragraph: “For my

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