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Want to Be Happy? Sacrifice Your Pleasures and Conveniences This Lent.
- Culture, Featured, Religion, Western Civilization
- February 26, 2026

More and more Americans are learning less and less about the history of their own country. The latest results from “The Nation’s Report Card” revealed that eighth-grade scores in American history continued to tumble, with fully 40% of these young people failing to meet even basic level standards. A 2024 survey of college students demonstrated equally dismal results, finding
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Forty years ago, I read an account of some Americans helping several Germans escape East Berlin by passing them off as U.S. citizens. They provided passports and other papers to the Germans, and outfitted them with Western-style clothing. As the date for their escape loomed, one of the Germans said to their handlers, “Now, you
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Let’s begin, as so many good things begin, with the dream. For years, conservative political activist, wife, and mother Connie Marshner of Front Royal, Va., dreamed of opening a private library, one aimed particularly at children. “I had collected books forever, especially children’s books, because I believe so strongly in beauty and beautiful books,” Marshner
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Is there an epidemic of loneliness in the United States? Former Surgeon General Vivek Murthy thought so. In 2023, he declared a national epidemic of loneliness and isolation, stating in June 2024, “The overall mortality impact of loneliness and isolation are on par with smoking daily, and they’re even greater than the mortality impact we
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