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  • Why Dietrich Bonhoeffer’s Mother Refused to Send Her Children to Germany’s Public Schools

    Why Dietrich Bonhoeffer’s Mother Refused to Send Her Children to Germany’s Public Schools12

    I know very little about Dietrich Bonhoeffer (1906-1945), the German theologian who was hanged in April 1945 by the Nazis for spying on and opposing Hitler’s regime. Embarrassingly little, actually. So when I recently saw at a bookstore Eric Metaxas’ biography of the Christian martyr—Bonhoeffer: Pastor, Prophet, Spy—I decided it was time to learn more

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  • Why Didn’t Sanctions Stop North Korea’s Missile Program?

    Why Didn’t Sanctions Stop North Korea’s Missile Program?0

    North Korea’s long-range missile program has made significant technological advances in the past few months. For most of the past 20 years, the international community has struggled to stop this kind of progress. Kim Jong Un’s plan to target four test missiles approximately 20 miles off the coast of the U.S. territory of Guam shows just how

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  • Why Didn’t the Founders Abolish Slavery?

    Why Didn’t the Founders Abolish Slavery?1

    Reparations for slavery have reemerged as a hotbed issue in the 2020 election, raising the question of why the Founding Fathers did not abolish slavery when starting their new country. Many of the Founders – including George Washington, Benjamin Franklin, and Alexander Hamilton – opposed the practice. They denounced slavery in the original draft of the

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  • Why Did the Sexual Revolution Happen?

    Why Did the Sexual Revolution Happen?0

    You may wince at the crass behaviour of Donald Trump, roll your eyes at Caitlin/Bruce Jenner’s portrait on the cover of Vogue, or lament the legalization of same-sex marriage — but there is something even more painful about these events. We don’t know how we got here from there. Without sugar-coating the past, a bare

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  • Why Did the British Give Reparations to Slave Owners?

    Why Did the British Give Reparations to Slave Owners?6

    The topic of slavery always evokes a flurry of emotions. Such was the case when the British government announced in 2015 that it had completed the payment of a loan borrowed to compensate slave owners for their loses due to the abolition of slavery. In an age when many are demanding that whites make reparations

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  • Why did medieval monks preserve pagan literature?

    Why did medieval monks preserve pagan literature?0

    Many educated people – though perhaps not enough – know that it was medieval monks who preserved classical culture. Between their daily offices, the monks huddled in their cells by candlelight to copy the great cultural artifacts of Western civilization. But why did they preserve works that had been produced by, and often reflected, the

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