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  • ‘They Will not be Judged by the Color of Their Skin’

    ‘They Will not be Judged by the Color of Their Skin’1

    Today, the nation celebrates Martin Luther King, Jr. who made a tremendous contribution to history. Most young Americans have been familiarized with his work and vision through his “I Have a Dream…” speech from 1963 at the “March on Washington”. Here’s the text of the full speech. Audio is below:     A speech does

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  • ‘They Shall Not Grow Old’ and the Rise of Moral Nihilism

    ‘They Shall Not Grow Old’ and the Rise of Moral Nihilism0

    They Shall Not Grow Old is an extremely painful film to watch. I’ve seen most of the major war films but I can’t recall one that is more powerful overall – powerful in the sense that it shakes you to your spiritual core. This film puts you right there as a middle-class Briton in the

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  • ‘The Zone of Interest’ in Forgiveness

    ‘The Zone of Interest’ in Forgiveness9

    The Zone of Interest won two Oscars this year. It is a highly stylized dissection of the character of Rudolph Höss, the commandant of Auschwitz. In his cozy home, with a wall separating his family from the horrors of the extermination camp, Höss was the kindly father of five children. On the other side, he was

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  • ‘The Screwtape Letters’: 8 Facts

    ‘The Screwtape Letters’: 8 Facts0

    Though many are only familiar with C. S. Lewis’ children’s works, The Chronicles of Narnia, he gained fame and recognition through his penning of The Screwtape Letters. Initially published individually through The Guardian on a weekly basis in 1942, the volume is still a widely hailed work. It records the advice of one devil –

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  • ‘The Personal Is Political’ is Making Politics More Toxic

    ‘The Personal Is Political’ is Making Politics More Toxic0

    “The personal is political” is a slogan that has been around for a long time, used especially though not exclusively by gender feminists. In practice it has served as an exhortation that people make ideology the sole dimension of their personal identity, that they set aside all other bases on which to evaluate their relations

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  • ‘The Penis as Social Construct’—Spoof Article Gets Published by Academic Journal

    ‘The Penis as Social Construct’—Spoof Article Gets Published by Academic Journal0

    Several years ago, Alan Sokal, a professor of physics at New York University and University College in London, decided to demonstrate exactly how nonsensical postmodernist cultural studies had become. To do this, he submitted an article to the postmodernist journal Social Text claiming to demonstrate that quantum gravity is a social and linguistic construct—in other

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