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Looking for Beauty on Our Way to the Manger
- Culture, Family, Featured, Religion, Western Civilization
- December 4, 2025






Sometimes, when reading G.K. Chesterton, one comes across a telling sentence buried in the middle of a very long paragraph. Here’s one from What’s Wrong with the World: “The old tyrants invoked the past; the new tyrants will invoke the future.” We’ve heard a good deal of talk in recent years about something called the
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For US citizens aged between 18 and 24 years, college enrollment rates reached more than 40 percent in 2017. Of those, nearly one in three (31 percent) drop out entirely. Why should the average taxpayer subsidize this? There is no conclusive evidence to prove that societal gains are worth the cost to the taxpayer. Going
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If one were to capture G.K. Chesterton’s philosophy to just a few words, it could be done in this sentence: Free will exists. Almost everything else that he wrote followed from this belief, including his objection to fatalism and determinism in all their forms. Chesterton did concede that the determinist thinks that he is a
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Have you ever heard of a “flirting party”? If not, don’t feel bad. Until today, I hadn’t either. Allow me to share my newfound enlightenment. A “flirting party,” according to a recent article in The Guardian, is the younger generations’ rebellious response to online dating culture. Sick of the swiping, online profiles, and perhaps even the
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One of the more interesting theatrical events of the year is set to happen on October 19th in New York City. That’s when journalist and documentarian Phelim McAleer’s play Ferguson will open at Urban Stages theater for a three-week run. The production is likely to force a wholesale re-evaluation of the events that took place
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Empathy is one of the trendiest words in the English language today. The Google Ngram below shows how the use of this word has surged in the modern vernacular. Many people would view this as a good thing because they see empathy—the ability to understand and share the feelings of others – as a
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