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  • Does This Philosopher’s 30-Year-Old Observation Explain the Current Social Upheaval?

    Does This Philosopher’s 30-Year-Old Observation Explain the Current Social Upheaval?0

    The last couple of years have been marked by numerous outbreaks of violence, demands and protests, and in general, great social unrest and upheaval. For those who have watched life unravel around them, such unrest can be confusing, causing many to sit back and wonder why we continue to experience such troublesome explosions. There are

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  • Does This Nietzsche Quote Describe What is Happening to America?

    Does This Nietzsche Quote Describe What is Happening to America?0

    • September 8, 2015

    America was founded on the tradition of classical liberalism, which is a political philosophy emphasizing the freedom (“liberty” – hence, “liberalism”) of individuals. Its various pillars include freedom of religion, economic freedom, and limited government. It was in the hopes of this freedom that men and women originally left the European continent, and that led

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  • Does the Witch Hunt to Rename Monuments Signal a Narrow Education?

    Does the Witch Hunt to Rename Monuments Signal a Narrow Education?0

    In case you haven’t noticed, there’s been a popular trend to rename various geographical and manmade landmarks. The renaming attempts often revolve around issues of racism, particularly in relation to whether an individual was pro-slavery. The latest incident in this line of renaming attempts occurred at a high school in Madison, Wisconsin. As local publication

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  • Does the Unfortunate 20th Century Foretell a Worse 21st?

    Does the Unfortunate 20th Century Foretell a Worse 21st?0

    On the centenary of his birth, we see that Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn was right, not once but twice. In appearance he was more akin to an Old Testament prophet—Jeremiah, say—than a Nobel Prize-winning Russian dissident writer, a man who had emerged from his long captivity in the Soviet Union only to find the supposedly superior West

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  • Does the U.S. Still Believe in Assimilating Immigrants?

    Does the U.S. Still Believe in Assimilating Immigrants?0

    In his Essay on the Development of Christian Doctrine, John Henry Newman famously listed 7 tests (“notes”) of a truly living and developing idea.   His third test was the “Power of Assimilation,” which he described as follows: “[D]octrines and views which relate to man are not placed in a void, but in the crowded world,

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  • Does the State Interfere Too Much in Parenting?

    Does the State Interfere Too Much in Parenting?0

    In recent years, the free-range parent movement has swept the nation, encouraging parents to teach their children responsibility by allowing them to do things on their own like walking to the local park. But sometimes parents who give their children responsibility at young ages get into trouble with our over-cautious society. Such is the case

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