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  • The Dutch Are Awake. Are We?

    The Dutch Are Awake. Are We?3

    “Who’s there?” That challenge by a guard at Elsinore Castle is the first line in Shakespeare’s Hamlet. “Who’s there?” is a question that pervades the play. We in the audience ask each of the play’s main characters—the ghost of Hamlet’s father; the ghost’s murderer, Claudius; Hamlet’s mother Gertrude, now married to her husband’s killer; the

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  • Want a Life of Adventure, Drama, and Comedy? Have Kids.

    Want a Life of Adventure, Drama, and Comedy? Have Kids.5

    Only “61 percent of the able workforce is currently officially employed,” Victor Davis Hanson writes in a recent Epoch Times article. “In just 14 years,” he notes further, “the fertility rate has crashed to 1.64 from 2.12—meaning that both citizens and resident aliens in America aren’t replacing themselves.” That replacement rate without immigration is approximately

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  • We’re Overdue for a Reality Check

    We’re Overdue for a Reality Check1

    “Denial,” goes an old Alcoholics Anonymous word-pun, “isn’t just a river in Egypt.” Agreed. My online dictionary defines denial as “the action of declaring something to be untrue, a statement that something is not true.” A classic example of that definition recently happened in Los Angeles. Likely boosted by a media looking for headlines, officials

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  • ‘Woke’ Tour Guides Now Mangle History at Monticello

    ‘Woke’ Tour Guides Now Mangle History at Monticello12

    The evil that men do lives after them; The good is oft interred with their bones; So let it be with Caesar. Substitute “Jefferson” for “Caesar” in Marc Anthony’s funeral speech, and you have a tidy summation of the guided “woke” tours at Thomas Jefferson’s home, Monticello. On July 5th—the day after our nation once

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