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Why does someone past the Psalmist’s “threescore years and ten” find himself entranced by a 150-year-old novel aimed at adolescents, namely, Louisa May Alcott’s “An Old-Fashioned Girl”? The credit or blame – take your pick – for this infatuation lands on a friend whose passion is for older fiction aimed at young readers, like the
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I’ve marveled before about how statements of the past can read like today’s headlines, especially those like the following taken from the front flap of Martin L. Gross’ 1997 “The End of Sanity”: “At the University of Pennsylvania, separate dorms have been set up for minorities in the name of racial harmony….” “An apprehended mugger
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In a recent article, Annie Holmquist maps out the twisting path leading eventually from liberalism to communism. She points to Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn’s 1978 Harvard Address in which he declared, “Liberalism was inevitably pushed aside by radicalism, radicalism had to surrender to socialism, and socialism could not stand up to communism.” To avoid this slide, she urges a
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In 2023, a group of individuals and organizations, with the most prominent at the time being psychologist, speaker, and writer Jordan Peterson, founded the Alliance for Responsible Citizenship (ARC). The intention of this group was to counter the decline of Western civilization and put forward a positive agenda for the future. “We reject the inevitability
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