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  • Is It Better for Kids When Their Parents Are Married?

    Is It Better for Kids When Their Parents Are Married?0

    • October 9, 2015

    Yesterday I ran across a Washington Post piece entitled, “I love my boyfriend, but I never want to get married.” In it, author Rachel Bussel describes how she and her partner of four years have lived as husband and wife in every imaginable experience – except for the wedding ceremony. Furthermore, Ms. Bussel insists that

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  • Is It a Problem if Kids Don’t Know How to Use Dictionaries?

    Is It a Problem if Kids Don’t Know How to Use Dictionaries?0

    When one of my younger siblings asked me the meaning of a word, my immediate response was: “Let’s look it up in the dictionary.” Giving me a look like I had just suggested that we send someone a note via smoke signal instead of text, my sister replied, “Patience, you have your phone right there.

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  • Is it ‘Revolutionary Millennialism’?

    Is it ‘Revolutionary Millennialism’?0

    Writing about Charles Dicken’s Barnaby Rudge: A Tale of the Riots of Eighty, Myron Magnet digs into one of the deeper impulses that animates man: The desire to be God. Magnet uses the term “revolutionary millennialism” to describe what happens when that individual desire is found on a mass scale. The term itself is actually

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  • Is Islam Really the ‘Religion of Peace’?

    Is Islam Really the ‘Religion of Peace’?4

    It’s not politically correct to think that some cultures, religions, and traditions are better than others. And perhaps even more taboo is the topic of Islam—and its historical record compared to Christianity, particularly when the two religions come to clash. It’s worth asking, then, what do history and data have to say on the topic?

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  • Is Islam Imperialist?

    Is Islam Imperialist?2

    English philosopher Antony Flew once commented that Islam was “best described in a Marxian way as the uniting and justifying ideology of Arab imperialism.” This is a rather provocative notion, but it’s not as implausible as it seems. Arab imperialism is a very real phenomenon. As James Sinkinson writes, “Arabs are the most successful colonizers

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  • Is Islam Actually a Christian Heresy?

    Is Islam Actually a Christian Heresy?1

    Is Islam actually a Christian heresy? Was it actually not a “new religion,” but rather, a perversion of orthodox Christian teaching?   1,400 years after Mohammed supposedly received his revelation from the archangel Gabriel, it’s difficult to determine. But nevertheless, it’s interesting to note that this charge has been made by some influential figures throughout history. For

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