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Compassion and Tolerance Without Faith and Virtue Can Be Deadly
- Culture, Featured, Politics, Western Civilization
- February 5, 2026

The plot of C.S. Lewis’ The Great Divorce is straightforward. The narrator, who strongly resembles Lewis, boards a bus along with some others traveling from Hell to Heaven. Once they’ve arrived at their destination, the quarrelsome passengers disembark, become Ghosts, and find themselves scarcely able to bear the reality of their physical environment—even the unbending
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An old woman is sitting at a bar when an older man enters, shuffles across the floor, and sits down beside her. “So,” he says, “Do I come here often?” When I read that joke online, my first thought was of 81-year-old Joe Biden. Those words might have stumbled right out of his mouth, and
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Have you ever known a friend who said, “Next year I’m moving to Rome and living the Italian Dream?” How about a buddy who over coffee declared, “I can’t stand this country anymore. I’m off to Ankara, where I can live the Turkish Dream?” Or an uncle who slapped his open hand on the table
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My Pennsylvania-born mother owned a black napkin holder sporting an Amish woman and an inscription: “Ve grow too soon alt und too late schmart” (“We grow too soon old and too late smart”). Recently, I had reason to remember that adage. Because my children have trouble figuring out what to give me for my birthday,
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