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  • How Jefferson Fostered Rational Thinking in Politics

    How Jefferson Fostered Rational Thinking in Politics0

    April 13 marked the birthday of American hero Thomas Jefferson. Best known for his role in penning the Declaration of Independence, Jefferson also held the rare and prestigious post of President of the United States. His path to the White House, however, was long and contentious, a fact referenced numerous times during the equally bitter

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  • How J.R.R. Tolkien Used Middle-Earth to Reveal Who We Are

    How J.R.R. Tolkien Used Middle-Earth to Reveal Who We Are0

    In his famous essay on fairy stories, J. R. R. Tolkien asserted that one of the most important facets of fairytales is that they hold up a “Mirror of scorn and pity towards Man”. The fairy story, Tolkien wrote, “may be used as a Mirour de l’Omme” (mirror of man), as something that shows us

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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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