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‘Men Have Forgotten God, That’s Why All This Has Happened’30
- Featured, History, Politics, Religion, Uncategorized
- September 12, 2025
The above words were the theme of Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn’s 1983 Templeton Prize address. Early in this speech he said, “And if I were called upon to identify briefly the principal trait of the entire twentieth century, here too, I would be unable to find anything more precise and pithy than to repeat once again: ‘Men have forgotten God.’”
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More Prayers, Not Less, Are Needed to Transform Our Culture 17
- Uncategorized, Featured, Politics, Religion
- September 9, 2025
The recent August school shooting during a Catholic Mass in Minneapolis prompted public arguments about the efficacy of prayer. For example, former Biden Press Secretary Jen Psaki and current Trump Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt exchanged some heated remarks on prayers offered up for the victims of the shooting. “Prayer is not freaking enough,” Psaki tweeted. “Enough with the
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‘If You Don’t Have to Throw the Kids in the Bathtub, They Haven’t Played Hard Enough.’20
- Culture, Education, Entertainment, Family, Featured, Uncategorized
- September 3, 2025
A guard in a Wabash, Ind., prison gave me that title. The prison was featured in a 2017 video, “Free the Kids—Dirt Is Good,” where inmates are permitted two precious hours a day outdoors. The short film contrasts that privilege with data showing that children spend less than an hour a day outside their house. At
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Oikophiles – the Political Party We All Need 28
- Culture, Featured, Politics, Uncategorized
- August 28, 2025
Are you an oikophile or an oikophobe? Conservative philosopher Roger Scruton (1944-2020) coined these two words from the Greek oikos, meaning household, home, or place. But Scruton broadened this meaning to include culture. Accordingly, oikophiles are those who love their homes and the culture passed down through generations. Oikophobes may love their private homes, but disdain, or even
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