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  • A Case Against Checking In

    A Case Against Checking In6

    “How are we feeling today?” my teacher began. “Let’s do a quick check-in.” Typically, our check-ins involved a scale of one to five. One was the worst: It meant, the teacher explained, that we felt no motivation, had no energy, and couldn’t wait for the school year to end. Five was the best: It signaled

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  • A Candle in the Darkness, a Call to Enlist Against Tyranny

    A Candle in the Darkness, a Call to Enlist Against Tyranny10

    Staying upbeat these days sometimes requires the strength of a Samson, the mind-set of a Millennialist, the heart of a Pollyanna, and a bottle of New Amsterdam Vodka. I lacked all of these weapons one recent evening. I’ve taken a leave of absence from alcohol, and the other attributes were as remote from me as

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  • A Canadian retailer exploits a young artist’s euthanasia to market its fashions

    A Canadian retailer exploits a young artist’s euthanasia to market its fashions2

    Sometime after Canada’s Thanksgiving Day on October 10, a 37-year-old woman named Jennyfer was euthanised. A few days later, on October 24, one of Canada’s best-known fashion retailers, Quebec-based La Maison Simons, launched an advertising campaign based on her wish to die. As part of its “All is Beauty” marketing strategy, the company released a stunning

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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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