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  • A Snapshot of James Madison’s Reading List

    A Snapshot of James Madison’s Reading List0

    When it comes to reading and literacy, America is having a hard time. Statistics show that 14 percent of adults can’t read, and 50 percent of adults can’t read a book written at an 8th-grade level. Fortunately for our nation, America’s founders did not fit into the illiterate or ill-read category. Their book lists and

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  • A Slow Learner Looks at Anti-Semitism

    A Slow Learner Looks at Anti-Semitism0

    Long ago, I was enrolled in Staunton Military Academy’s Junior School, which consisted of about 50 seventh and eighth graders. Now long defunct, SMA was a tough place. Copying the practices of the Virginia Military Institute, first-year SMA students were called “rats.” These new cadets faced some hazing, and our barracks saw more fights every

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  • A Skeleton in the ‘Transition Closet’

    A Skeleton in the ‘Transition Closet’2

    The Transition Closet (TTC) is an organization based in Fayetteville, Arkansas, with a mission that seems innocuous albeit odd: to provide “free gender affirming clothing, undergarments, and clothing consultations for Transgender, Nonbinary, and Intersex folks of all ages, world wide.” But there’s a bit more to it than that. In a TikTok video posted to Twitter by the Teachers Exposed account,

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  • A Simple Test for Determining a Person’s Level of PC Craziness

    A Simple Test for Determining a Person’s Level of PC Craziness0

    We’ve gone through the craziest two years I’ve ever seen. In no particular order, we’ve suffered from lockdowns and masks thanks to a virus and an overbearing government. The last presidential election brought chaos and accusations of fraud. We’ve had riots in cities, urban crime has skyrocketed, there were attempts to “defund the police,” and

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  • A Simple Solution for Loneliness

    A Simple Solution for Loneliness0

    “Are you lonesome tonight?” Elvis Presley asked that question in 1960 in one his most famous songs. Today, unfortunately, the answer for many Americans is “yes.” Modern loneliness is often described as an “epidemic.” That specific term may be a bit over the top. But it’s undeniable that loneliness is a big problem in our

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  • A Simple Formula for Restoring Modern Society

    A Simple Formula for Restoring Modern Society0

    In the 2017 documentary “LOOK & SEE: A Portrait of Wendell Berry,” the great cultural and agricultural writer Wendell Berry stated: We all come from divorce. This is an age of divorce. Things that belong together have been taken apart. And you can’t put it all back together again. What you can do, is the only

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