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  • Charlie Chaplin Showed Us a Better Way to Deal With Nazis

    Charlie Chaplin Showed Us a Better Way to Deal With Nazis0

    White nationalists and neo-Nazis are having their moment. Former Ku Klux Klan Imperial Wizard David Duke is back, yet again, in the media spotlight, while newer figures such as white supremacist Richard Spencer and Christopher Cantwell are broadcasting their views via social media feeds and niche internet channels. Many Americans are wondering if this resurgent

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  • Charlie Brown’s Christmas Message to America

    Charlie Brown’s Christmas Message to America2

    Simple, timeless, and unpretentious, “A Charlie Brown Christmas Special” became a holiday tradition since its first airing on Dec. 9, 1965. Its beginnings were simple: a television producer approached cartoonist Charles Schulz with a general idea for an animated special featuring the Peanuts gang. Soon, the idea for a Christmas special, written by Schulz himself,

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  • Charlie Brown’s Christmas Message to America

    Charlie Brown’s Christmas Message to America0

    Parents and children across America breathed a sigh of relief when it was announced that “A Charlie Brown Christmas” would air on public television after all. This classic favorite seemed ready to disappear like everything else in 2020 when Apple TV obtained the rights and planned to air the program on its streaming service, instead of

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  • Charlie Brown’s Christmas Message to America

    Charlie Brown’s Christmas Message to America3

    Simple, timeless, and unpretentious, “A Charlie Brown Christmas Special” became a holiday tradition since its first airing on Dec. 9, 1965. Its beginnings were simple: a television producer approached cartoonist Charles Schulz with a general idea for an animated special featuring the Peanuts gang. Soon, the idea for a Christmas special, written by Schulz himself,

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  • Charleston Looks to Make Housing More Affordable by Removing Price Controls

    Charleston Looks to Make Housing More Affordable by Removing Price Controls1

    Is the housing crisis driven in part by an excess of government regulation?

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  • Charles Schulz’s Pushback Against Secularism

    Charles Schulz’s Pushback Against Secularism0

    We often think of the secularization of Christmas as a very recent thing. But its origins go back to the nineteenth century with the writing of “The Night Before Christmas,” and the Thomas Nast version of Santa Claus: the jolly, plump, white-bearded rendition we know today. Irving Berlin’s famous song “White Christmas,” written in 1942

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