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  • Immigration Lessons for President Trump from Thomas Aquinas

    Immigration Lessons for President Trump from Thomas Aquinas0

    I am grateful to The Imaginative Conservative for publishing Fr. Dwight Longenecker’s reasoned defence of President Trump’s executive order placing a ninety day moratorium on immigration from countries deemed to pose a terrorist threat to the United States. I am grateful also for a recent essay by John Horvat II in which Mr. Horvat discusses what

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  • Immigration has become a ‘screaming match’ thanks to media bias

    Immigration has become a ‘screaming match’ thanks to media bias0

    Front page pictures of protests, horror stories about innocent victims, editorials denouncing the whole idea — are we getting the whole story about President Trump’s immigration crackdown? Where’s the discussion about necessary immigration reform? MercatorNet asked Christopher Harper, Professor of Journalism in the School of Media and Communication at Temple University what he thinks. * *

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  • IMF Head Muses On the End of Banking, Triumph of Digital Currencies

    IMF Head Muses On the End of Banking, Triumph of Digital Currencies0

    In a remarkably frank talk at a Bank of England conference, the Managing Director of the International Monetary Fund has speculated that Bitcoin and cryptocurrency have as much of a future as the Internet itself. It could displace central banks, conventional banking, and challenge the monopoly of national monies.   Christine Lagarde–a Paris native who has held her

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  • Imago Dei: Missing in Action

    Imago Dei: Missing in Action5

    My brother-in-law is dying. He’s well aware of this fact, as he was diagnosed months ago with an incurable lung disease. He spends a good deal of time sleeping these days, loses his breath after walking up a few steps, and uses an oxygen machine to supplement the air his lungs can’t supply. Bob’s a

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  • Imagined Virtue: What News Can Make Us Miss

    Imagined Virtue: What News Can Make Us Miss4

    Clicking on my car radio, I hear two voices discussing—vehemently—a federal government conflict. Opening my podcast app, I find an entire category dedicated to “News,” or informing listeners of the latest scandals or controversies. And scrolling through YouTube, I find a host of suggestions for dogmatic political commentary. The mere volume of news outlets, encompassing

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  • Illusions and Falsehoods Are Destroying America

    Illusions and Falsehoods Are Destroying America0

    As Pontius Pilate nears the end of his interrogation in the most fateful trial in history, Jesus says, “Everyone on the side of truth listens to me.”          To which Pilate replies, “What is truth?”          Or as some might say today, “I have my truth, you have your

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