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  • What the Story of Cain and Abel Teaches Us About Envy and Victimhood

    What the Story of Cain and Abel Teaches Us About Envy and Victimhood0

    In his “Biblical Series V: The Hostile Brothers” and in his international best seller 12 Rules for Life: An Antidote to Chaos, Jordan Peterson provides a rich interpretation of the story of Cain and Abel. The archetypal brothers both suffer, but their radically different responses to their suffering represent perennial human options. After becoming self-conscious and leaving the Garden of

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  • What the Response to Ruth Bader Ginsburg’s Death Says About America’s Future

    What the Response to Ruth Bader Ginsburg’s Death Says About America’s Future0

    “Burn it all down.” “Civility is dead.” That is how leading political voices have been responding to the death of Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg at age 87 since it was announced on Friday. Others have voiced concern that America’s social fabric – already frayed by the presidential election, the pandemic, the lockdowns, and the riots – may

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  • What the Reaction to MPR Raccoon Tells Us About Millennials

    What the Reaction to MPR Raccoon Tells Us About Millennials0

    Perhaps you heard, but the raccoon that scaled the UBS building in Saint Paul, Minnesota, was just using its superpower instincts. As Suzanne MacDonald, a psychologist from York University studying urban raccoons, notes in an article for The Washington Post, the newly dubbed #mprraccoon was just hungry and curious— and also happens to have Spiderman

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  • What the Popularity of DNA Tests Really Tells Us

    What the Popularity of DNA Tests Really Tells Us0

    Watch a YouTube video, browse Facebook, or (if you’re old-fashioned) turn on a television, and you might well see an advertisement for DNA-profiling services. DNA tests have become ubiquitous as sequencing technology has improved. Companies now sell you a product that can supposedly tell you how much of your DNA comes from various regions of

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  • What the Poor Need the Most?

    What the Poor Need the Most?0

    At times the works of Georges Bernanos may seem quite dark and penetrating. There is a brutal realism to his writings that acts as a mirror for the reader to pierce his own soul, to reflect upon his own evil and good. In The Diary of a Country Priest (1937), Bernanos follows the life of

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  • What the Origins of Money Teaches Us About Spontaneous Order

    What the Origins of Money Teaches Us About Spontaneous Order0

    Money has been around for most of human history. From Mesopotamia (or even earlier), all civilizations have employed some kind of medium of exchange to facilitate transactions regardless of their geographical locations, legal and economic systems, religious beliefs or political structures. Have you ever wondered why? In a brief essay entitled “On the Origins of

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