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Showing Up: The Quiet Strength That Shapes Who We Become
- Culture, Featured, Uncategorized, Western Civilization
- April 18, 2025
In her recently published memoir My American Dream: A Journey From Fascism to Freedom, Barbara Sommer Feigin begins by recounting her escape in 1940 as a 2-year-old from Nazi Germany to the United States. She recreates this trek, which ran from Europe across Russia to Japan and then to America, using a journal her father
READ MOREIn George Orwell’s 1984 are dichotomies now familiar to many Americans: “War Is Peace. Freedom Is Slavery. Ignorance Is Strength.” Inscribed on the outside of the white, pyramid-shaped Ministry of Truth, this is the motto of Oceania, a nation governed by “The Party.” The Party designed these slogans to obfuscate the meaning of words, thereby
READ MOREWho, what, and where, by what helpe, and by whose, Why, how and when, doe many things disclose. — The Arte of Rhetorique, 1560 In “The Five Ws (and H) of Journalism,” Richard Nordquist notes that, in the above lines, English rhetorician Thomas Wilson devised the formula that later became standard in journalism. “Who,” “What,”
READ MOREMany years ago, I attended West Forsyth High School near Winston-Salem, North Carolina. Though our sports teams then were generally mediocre, at basketball and football games our cheerleaders would inevitably break into a chant: “WEST IS BEST! WEST IS BEST!” That cheer came back to me while reading “The Decline and Fall of the Descendants
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