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  • Battling COVID: A Personal Score

    Battling COVID: A Personal Score0

    After three weeks’ absence I am back with a piece untypical of my standard work: an attempt to reconstruct my battle with The Virus and the resulting double pneumonia. I took the first dose of Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine upon returning to Belgrade following a three month absence. Booking it online at 48 hours’ notice was easy, and I chose the

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  • Battles We Can Win: Family, Morality, Education

    Battles We Can Win: Family, Morality, Education2

    In “Burke on Our Crisis of Character,” which appeared in the December 2023 issue of Chronicles, Bruce Frohnen notes, “The American Way was real, rooted in families whose rights trumped the demands of the state because families were more natural and fundamental than the state.” The following month in the same magazine, Stephen Baskerville reviews

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  • Battle over Teacher Accused of Racism is Heating Up

    Battle over Teacher Accused of Racism is Heating Up0

    It has been quite a month for St. Paul’s Como Park High School. On March 10, Intellectual Takeout shared with readers a video depicting two youths beating up a teacher, later identified as Mark Rawlings, a 48-year-old technology teacher at Como High. It turns out that the same day Rawlings was thrashed by the two

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  • Batman vs. Modern Art

    Batman vs. Modern Art0

    The secret’s out. My dual identity has been discovered. By day, I spend my time in the company of serious writers and thinkers, such as Homer, Dante, Shakespeare, and Thomas Aquinas, but by night I sit down with my eleven-year-old daughter to watch episodes of Batman, the 1960s television series starring Adam West and Burt Ward

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  • Basic Philosophy Educated People Should Know: Aristotle’s ‘Four Causes’

    Basic Philosophy Educated People Should Know: Aristotle’s ‘Four Causes’0

    The ancient philosophers developed a number of tools through which they could understand reality. One of them, from the writings of Aristotle, the student of Plato (who was himself the student of Socrates), is called the “Four Causes.” The term “cause” is a little misleading. These four causes were the way you explained or defined

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  • Bashar al-Assad: the Abraham Lincoln of Syria

    Bashar al-Assad: the Abraham Lincoln of Syria0

    Among the great iconic political leaders of America, few are treated with greater veneration (or, in some circles, vilification) than Abraham Lincoln. He appeals to many parts of our national mythology, and he was a ‘war leader’ during a time of great national crisis who melded toughness and tenacity with a firm vision for what

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