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  • A Nation’s True Test Comes After the Crisis

    A Nation’s True Test Comes After the Crisis0

    Perhaps it’s natural and understandable for most people to think that things like “leadership” and “character” are forged and evidenced in response to crisis. It’s quite apparent in the present moment that judgments about public figures are being shaped by how they’re handling the virus pandemic. Around the world, people are generally, if grudgingly, embracing

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  • A Nation Addled by Conspiracy Theories

    A Nation Addled by Conspiracy Theories0

    It’s become familiar to the point of routine. After a shooting, a bombing, a national crisis of any sort, partisans on both sides fling fact-free, post-truth conspiracy narratives at each other. Within minutes of any tragedy, there’s talk of setups, crisis actors, government patsies, and alternative plot lines so outrageous they would make a fiction

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  • A Muslim King Makes a Gesture Toward Christians

    A Muslim King Makes a Gesture Toward Christians0

    The day before Easter in the Western world, King Abdullah of Jordan, a Muslim, announced that he is funding the restoration of the Church of the Holy Sepulchre in Jerusalem. That may seem like mere inside baseball to non-believers. But in the wider picture of what’s sometimes called the “clash” of Muslim and Western civilizations,

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  • A Mother’s Day Tribute to Those Who’ve Passed On

    A Mother’s Day Tribute to Those Who’ve Passed On0

    When I first envisioned my Mother’s Day column, I intended to write some light tribute to all the moms I know. I would raise a glass to all the good you moms bring to the world, thanking you for being the foundation of our culture, and for those hundreds of little things you do every

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  • A Mother’s COVID Regret

    A Mother’s COVID Regret4

    One of the most alarming aspects of the new COVID-centric regime is how people have been deprived of the truth regarding potential harms of the COVID-19 vaccines and how citizens have been forced to get the vaccine due to bullying from medical authorities, the government, or an employer. When the medical decision to get the

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  • A Morning with Big Brother

    A Morning with Big Brother0

    I have long since broken the habit of watching television. We don’t have TV in the house and I relish all the good things that fill the time that would otherwise have been wasted in watching it: Conversation; unhurried dinners at the table with my wife and children; conversation; reading books with my daughter; reading

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