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  • A Call to Battle: Liz Wheeler’s ‘Hide Your Children’

    A Call to Battle: Liz Wheeler’s ‘Hide Your Children’1

    When my wife and I were raising and homeschooling our four children, we faced certain cultural dilemmas just like other parents we knew. Should we let our kids read the Harry Potter books? (Affirmative on that one.) What movies or television shows should we allow them to watch? What sort of friends were they making?

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  • A Bunch of Burke Quotes

    A Bunch of Burke Quotes0

    Bad laws are the worst sort of tyranny.   To tax and to please, no more than to love and to be wise, is not given to men.   The concessions of the weak are the concessions of fear.   The use of force alone is but temporary. It may subdue for a moment; but

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  • A Brief Philosophy of Feasting

    A Brief Philosophy of Feasting0

    In one of my favorite books — In Tune With the World: A Theory of Festivity — German philosopher Josef Pieper takes up the question: What is a feast? On this, Thanksgiving Day, it seems worth looking at his answer… Pieper acknowledges that feasts are typically associated with “having a good time.” And what is

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  • A Brief History of Russia Meddling in Other People’s Elections

    A Brief History of Russia Meddling in Other People’s Elections0

    U.S. Special counsel Robert Mueller on Feb. 16 indicted Russian individuals and entities for interference in the U.S. presidential election. This is not a one-off act of Russian interference. In the previous nine years, Russia has invaded its neighbor Georgia, annexed the Ukrainian province of Crimea and supported rebels in Eastern Ukraine. As a historian

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  • A Brief History Of Presidents Fibbing About Their Health

    A Brief History Of Presidents Fibbing About Their Health0

    Both U.S. presidential candidates Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton have recently been caught deceiving the public about their health. Each candidate has accused the other of lying about medical conditions. Trump released a note from a doctor which turned out to be questionable. Critics have attacked not only the wording of the letter but also

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  • A Brain Teaser on the Power of Context

    A Brain Teaser on the Power of Context0

    In his book The Tipping Point, Malcolm Gladwell has a chapter called “The Power of Context.” The power of context shows how people’s decisions are highly influenced by the circumstances in which they are making a decision or presented information. For instance, a seminarian who had just heard the parable of the Good Samaritan might

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