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  • Can We Restore Dignity to Our Degraded Times?

    Can We Restore Dignity to Our Degraded Times?0

    The message is loud and clear. Your actions have no more significance than those of a cockroach. Furthermore, like a cockroach, you are in no position to make moral choices of your own free will. When you commit some hideous brutality, it is not that you decided to do so. No, on the contrary, external

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  • Can We Really Know Ourselves?

    Can We Really Know Ourselves?0

    “This above all: To thine own self be true.” – Polonius (From Hamlet) “Every man has forgotten who he is. One may understand the cosmos, but never the ego; the self is more distant than any star. Thou shalt love the Lord thy God; but thou shalt not know thyself.” – G. K. Chesterton On this very

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  • Can we learn from Thucydides’ writings on the Trump of ancient Athens?

    Can we learn from Thucydides’ writings on the Trump of ancient Athens?0

    There is much consternation, and quite a bit of alarm, at the recent vote of the British people to leave the EU, and the equally astonishing emergence of Donald Trump as the Republican candidate for the US presidency. Early on in these campaigns there was a tendency to mock Trump as a bit of a

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  • Can We Have Free-Range Kids While Their Mothers Are Wage Slaves?

    Can We Have Free-Range Kids While Their Mothers Are Wage Slaves?0

    • August 22, 2019

    One reads about it too often not to believe there is something in the reports of an epidemic of anxiety and depression among children; tweens and teens mostly, some suicidal. Writing in the New York Times last weekend, mother of two Kim Brooks is the latest to cite the data and lament that “our kids are not

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  • Can We Have a Discussion about Lying If We Don’t Agree about Truth?

    Can We Have a Discussion about Lying If We Don’t Agree about Truth?0

    An article in the New York Times opinion section has invited a discussion on lying.   Gerald Dworkin, the author, alleges that while most of us condemn lying, we also all lie to each other regularly. So, he argues, there is not actually an absolute societal prohibition on lying, but rather lying in certain circumstances: 

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  • Can We Gracefully Deal With That Loud Liberal?

    Can We Gracefully Deal With That Loud Liberal?3

    Sometimes we can’t make a dent in talking politics with people who disagree with us because their minds are so solidly made up. This isn’t so bad with people who have decent social skills and a sense of tactfulness. But we’ve all met that loud liberal who has neither! Whether it’s in the workplace, extended

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