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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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  • Does the Senate Think Americans Are Stupid? The Kavanaugh Hearings Suggest the Answer is Yes.

    Does the Senate Think Americans Are Stupid? The Kavanaugh Hearings Suggest the Answer is Yes.0

    There’s a problem with the latest of Judge Brett Kavanaugh’s alleged sexual assaults during his high school years.   Julie Swetnik claims that Kavanaugh and other young men attended parties in high school where they filled the punch bowl with drugs or alcohol, and then lined up to rape girls who had become too intoxicated

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  • Does the Quest for Equality Degrade Women?

    Does the Quest for Equality Degrade Women?0

    For any number of years, schools, counselors, and politicians have been doing their best to get more girls into the fields of science, math, technology, and engineering (STEM). These fields have traditionally been dominated by men, and boosting the levels of women involved in STEM seems like a brilliant way to overcome sexism and promote

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  • Does the printed word still have power?

    Does the printed word still have power?0

    Myles Connelly seems to have understood the future when he published Mr. Blue in 1926. In it, he reflects: “No printed word shall wring the new masses as did the printed words in the past. They have not time for the printed word. The day when a pamphlet distributed at a street corner could start

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