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  • How J.R.R. Tolkien Responded to News of the Atomic Bomb

    How J.R.R. Tolkien Responded to News of the Atomic Bomb0

    On Aug. 9, 1945, the day the U.S. dropped a second atomic bomb—this one on the Japanese city of Nagasaki—J.R.R. Tolkien penned a letter to his son, Christopher Tolkien. Here is what he wrote: “The news today about ‘Atomic bombs’ is so horrifying one is stunned. The utter folly of these lunatic physicists to consent

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  • How ISIS Recruits and Coerces Children

    How ISIS Recruits and Coerces Children0

    Last week the world once again witnessed an Islamic State’s use of at least one child bomber, perhaps two. A child between the ages of 12 and 14 was reportedly the culprit behind a suicide attack – blowing up the wedding of Besna and Nurettin Akdogan in Gaziantep, Turkey and killing 54 people on Aug.

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  • How is Liberty Lost?

    How is Liberty Lost?0

    • August 4, 2015

    Many Americans feel that their liberties are being continuously eroded through government overreach and overregulation.   But the following quotation from the eighteenth-century British statesman Edmund Burke makes one wonder: has the government’s erosion of liberty been preceded by the failure over time of Americans to live freely? Burke writes: “What is liberty without wisdom and without virtue?

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  • How Intellectuals Train the Underclass to Feel Helpless

    How Intellectuals Train the Underclass to Feel Helpless1

    Recently a psychologist friend was singing a familiar refrain: “My clients want their problematical circumstances alleviated, but few want to change how they see the world.” Most intransigent among his clients are those with government benefits and mandated weekly therapy. Some have been coming to him for years. Their mindsets are characterized by hopelessness, but

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  • How Illegal Immigration Perpetuates Poverty

    How Illegal Immigration Perpetuates Poverty4

    Immigration remains not only one of our nation’s most pressing issues but also one of the most divisive. The common media narrative boils this topic down to say that progressives are kind and welcoming to those experiencing hardship while conservatives are cold-hearted monsters. Sadly, this narrative hides a much more sinister reality: Charitable immigration can

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  • How Ideological Polarization Harms Society

    How Ideological Polarization Harms Society0

    I recently overhead a friend of mine disgustedly muttering at his phone. Contrary to what one might think, his disgust was not over problems with his hand-held device; instead, it was over a notification he had just received from Reddit. The notification explained that he had been banned from the board entitled “Black Lives Matter.”

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