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  • Are We Becoming a Victimocracy?

    Are We Becoming a Victimocracy?0

    Most of us learned—or should have learned—in school that the United States is a republic, not a democracy. Therefore, we do not have direct rule by the demos, the “mob” of common people, but by elected representatives and leaders. Of course, some cynically deny that our nominal governments actually rule. Our “real” rulers, they usually

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  • Are We Becoming a Nation of Gollums?

    Are We Becoming a Nation of Gollums?0

    This week, I met a good friend of mine at a local restaurant, the first time we’d got together since before the onset of the pestilence. He is a Presbyterian pastor and a great lover of the works of J.R.R. Tolkien. It was, in fact, Tolkien who had introduced us to each other, in the

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  • Are We at the Beginning of an Age of Barbarism?

    Are We at the Beginning of an Age of Barbarism?0

    Giambattista Vico (1668-1744) was one of the most significant philosophers of history of the modern era. In his major work The New Science (1725), Vico famously outlined what he believed to be the recurring cycle of human civilizations (using Greece and Rome as his primary examples), and his outline of the three ages of this

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  • Are We Already Fighting the 2nd Civil War?

    Are We Already Fighting the 2nd Civil War?0

    The possibility of another American civil war is something that many raise as a topic of interest, but usually dismiss as remote.     But in his most recent column, conservative pundit Dennis Prager goes so far as to say that “America is currently fighting its Second Civil War”: “In fact, with the obvious and enormous

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  • Are We All Bigots Now?

    Are We All Bigots Now?0

    First, some terms need to be defined here if this is going to make any sense. big·ot /’big?t/: a person intolerant of those holding different opinions. o·pin·ion /?’piny?n/: a view or judgment formed about something, not necessarily based on fact or knowledge. For the sake of clarity, let us say that opinions are the sort

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  • Are We All ‘Cat Persons’ Now? How Modern Dating Destroys Intimacy

    Are We All ‘Cat Persons’ Now? How Modern Dating Destroys Intimacy0

    In our previous Public Discourse essay on the #MeToo movement and hookup culture, we argued that careful attention to human experience can teach us important and surprising things about the meaning of sex. The same can be said for popular culture. It often tells the truth about sex, in spite of itself. Kristen Roupenian’s short story “Cat

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