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  • How ‘A Charlie Brown Christmas’ Symbolizes the Triumph of Common Sense

    How ‘A Charlie Brown Christmas’ Symbolizes the Triumph of Common Sense9

    December 9th marks the anniversary of the Christmas TV special which basically birthed all others: “A Charlie Brown Christmas.” Most Americans know the plot well. The despondent Charlie Brown who just can’t work up his Christmas cheer amidst crass commercialism. The confident and obnoxious Lucy, who finds the allegedly perfect solution to Charlie Brown’s gloom.

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  • How ‘A Charlie Brown Christmas’ Symbolizes the Triumph of Common Sense

    How ‘A Charlie Brown Christmas’ Symbolizes the Triumph of Common Sense0

    December 9th marks the anniversary of the Christmas TV special which basically birthed all others: “A Charlie Brown Christmas.” Most Americans know the plot well. The despondent Charlie Brown who just can’t work up his Christmas cheer amidst crass commercialism. The confident and obnoxious Lucy, who finds the allegedly perfect solution to Charlie Brown’s gloom.

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  • How ‘Woke’ Are You on World Poverty?

    How ‘Woke’ Are You on World Poverty?0

    By now you have probably heard the exhortation “stay woke.” To be woke means a person is “an informed, questioning, self-educating individual” who “look[s] past the provided narrative.” Yet, most among the self-proclaimed woke are still fast asleep. They may have a facile way of imparting narratives about issues, but those narratives are often based

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  • How ‘The Simpsons’ Predicted Trump

    How ‘The Simpsons’ Predicted Trump0

    On March 19, 2000, The Simpsons alluded to a future Donald Trump presidency in an episode titled “Bart to the Future.”  Newsday puts it thus: “Bart sees his future in a vision where his band plays a gig for popcorn shrimp and Lisa becomes the first ‘straight female’ president of the United States.   In a clip

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  • How ‘The Abolition of Man’ Destroys the Idols of the Postmodern Age

    How ‘The Abolition of Man’ Destroys the Idols of the Postmodern Age1

    No one could rightly accuse C.S. Lewis, who was raised as a Northern Protestant Irishman, of betraying his adopted home of England. During the Great War, Lewis had—though exempt from any draft—volunteered to serve as an officer in the British Army. When he arrived in the trenches of that horrendous war, now a century gone

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  • How ‘Star Trek’ Almost Failed to Launch

    How ‘Star Trek’ Almost Failed to Launch0

    Fifty years ago – on Sept. 8, 1966 – TV viewers were transfixed by the appearance on screen of a green-hued, pointy-eared alien called Spock. But beneath the makeup, actor Leonard Nimoy fretted that this would be the end of his promising career. “How can I play a character without emotion?” he asked his boss,

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