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  • Today’s Schools Are Producing ‘Hollow Men’

    Today’s Schools Are Producing ‘Hollow Men’0

    One of the most heinous crimes against humanity that modernity has perpetrated is its war on the humanities. And let’s not forget that the humanities are thus called because they teach us about our own humanity. A failure to appreciate the humanities must inevitably lead to the dehumanizing of culture and a disastrous loss of

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  • Beren and Lúthien: Tolkien’s Greatest Love Story

    Beren and Lúthien: Tolkien’s Greatest Love Story0

    There are many great literary love stories. Apart from fairytale princesses and their trysts with charming princes, we think perhaps of Romeo and Juliet, or Helen and Paris, or Odysseus and Penelope, or Aeneas and Dido, or Dante and Beatrice. And we think of those who gave us such lovers. Shakespeare, Homer, Virgil, Dante. We

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  • Technology Addiction and the Gollumizing of Our Culture

    Technology Addiction and the Gollumizing of Our Culture0

    Is technology liberating? Does science-driven “progress” make us happier? Not so, says social psychologist, Adam Alter, in his new book, Irresistible: The Rise of Addictive Technology and the Business of Keeping Us Hooked. “In the past, we thought of addiction as mostly related to chemical substances: heroin, cocaine, nicotine,” says Dr. Alter, an associate professor

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  • Is the West Worth Defending?

    Is the West Worth Defending?0

    There are many people who will cite the West as something which is under threat and something for which we should be prepared to fight to defend. Depending on which defender of the West is pontificating, the threat comes from Russia, or from Islam, or from China, or from some enemy within the West itself.

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