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  • Is Contentment Possible in the Midst of Calamity?

    Is Contentment Possible in the Midst of Calamity?0

    Chesterton, the multi-biographer, intended to write many more biographies than he did. One of his intended subjects was the 15th century Dominican friar, Girolamo Savonarola (1452-1498). The grandson of a wealthy Florentine physician, Savonarola abandoned his own plans for a medical career to become a “knight of Christ” at 22. Thus began what would become a

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  • Is Contemporary Liberalism Creating a Soulless Monoculture?

    Is Contemporary Liberalism Creating a Soulless Monoculture?0

    I was once called a “cracker” by a member of the Nation of Islam. It was in the mid-1980s and I was driving through Washington, D.C., in the kind of neighborhood that conservatives call dangerous and liberals call “transitioning.” I saw a member of the Nation of Islam, bow tie and all, on the corner

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  • Is conspicuous consumption the cause of plummeting birth rates?

    Is conspicuous consumption the cause of plummeting birth rates?0

    Keeping up with the Jones can drive families into debt and make them envious and miserable. But it could also be an important driver of low fertility rates, according to a mathematical model developed by anthropologists and published in Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B. “The areas were we see the greatest declines in

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  • Is Complaining about Society a Waste of Time?

    Is Complaining about Society a Waste of Time?0

    There are a growing number of conservatives who, similar to their progressive counterparts, have identified capitalism as the source of a great many evils in modern society. As the argument goes, unchecked freedom in the economic realm has led to unchecked freedom in the ethical realm; laissez-faire capitalism has laid the groundwork for the decline

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  • Is Common Sense Becoming Uncommon?

    Is Common Sense Becoming Uncommon?0

    • November 22, 2019

    How many legs does a dog have if you call his tail a leg? Four, because even if you call it a leg, it’s still a tail. – Abraham Lincoln P.J. O’Rourke once wrote, “Giving money and power to government is like giving whiskey and car keys to teenage boys.” Common sense tells us the

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  • Is Common Core Math Causing Students to Fall Further Behind?

    Is Common Core Math Causing Students to Fall Further Behind?0

    Every few months it seems that another story pops up concerning some child’s confusing Common Core math homework. For examples, check out the three famous ones below:     As authors Katharine Beals and Barry Garelick explain in The Atlantic, homework questions such as these are an attempt to have children understand the concepts behind

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