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  • How We’ll Remember George Michael

    How We’ll Remember George Michael0

    Over the Christmas holiday, 2016 claimed yet another pop icon: George Michael. He was 53. Late last night, I made the mistake of sharing a TMZ article on my public Facebook page that showed what George Michael looked like a few months before his death. He had packed on a lot of weight, so much

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  • How We Undermine Parents From Cradle to Grave

    How We Undermine Parents From Cradle to Grave26

    A few years ago, some friends of mine had their seventh child. At home. By themselves. No expert help. Things weren’t supposed to happen that way, but there was literally “no room at the inn” (hospital) when the time came for the baby to be born, and baby wasn’t about to be put on a

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  • How We Discovered Three Poisonous Books in our University Library

    How We Discovered Three Poisonous Books in our University Library0

    Some may remember the deadly book of Aristotle that plays a vital part in the plot of Umberto Eco’s 1980 novel The Name of the Rose. Poisoned by a mad Benedictine monk, the book wreaks havoc in a 14th-century Italian monastery, killing all readers who happen to lick their fingers when turning the toxic pages.

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  • How We Colored Our Public Squares Red

    How We Colored Our Public Squares Red0

    Reports tell us that church attendance among Americans is falling. I am acquainted with secular professors who apparently have learned nothing from the experiences of atheistic social experiments in the last century. Social experiments, I say, and not societies, because such monstrosities as Soviet Russia and Red China were never social enough to raise the human

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  • How We Can Do Good By Doing Well

    How We Can Do Good By Doing Well0

    Among economists’ insights over the last almost 250 years, one of the keenest is that one can do good while doing well. The idea traces to Adam Smith. It means capitalists’/entrepreneurs’ pursuit of profit can have favorable consequences for the community at large – and not just for capitalists and entrepreneurs. It applies equally to landowners and

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  • How Venezuelans Can Recover from the Sickness of Socialism

    How Venezuelans Can Recover from the Sickness of Socialism0

    And now that the legislators and do-gooders have so futilely inflicted so many systems upon society, may they finally end where they should have begun: May they reject all systems, and try liberty; for liberty is an acknowledgment of faith in God and His works – French economist and statesman Frédéric Bastiat, 1850. Venezuela’s socialist

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