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Several years ago, liberal professor Jonathan Haidt made a surprising statement about today’s college students. Explaining their inability to handle conflict or anything contrary to their own opinions, Haidt noted: This makes it impossible to teach. This makes it impossible to have an intellectual community. I’m a liberal Professor and my liberal students scare me.
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“All that I have written seems to me as so much straw.” No, these aren’t the words of a modern blogger. They came from St. Thomas Aquinas (1225-1274), without question one of the greatest intellects history has known. How brilliant was Aquinas? He conducted quodlibetal disputations, in which a gathered crowd at the university could
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It started with Colin Kaepernick, the San Francisco 49ers quarterback who, before he was let go, made headlines for taking a knee during the playing of the national anthem to protest perceived wrongs against racial minorities. Then other NFL players followed suit. Now even eight year-old football players in Cahokia, IL, are getting into the
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The National September 11 Memorial and Museum are deeply ugly. Those two gaping pits, a vision of the abyss, mar that tragic earth. Like gashes that never healed, but rather festered into black necrosis, the 9/11 memorial reveals a sickness; a sickness not of the body but of the soul. That day changed America in
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If you keep up with the intersection of politics and pop culture like I do, you can’t have missed hearing about a recent British drama that was the most-watched show on Netflix worldwide, and that became a surprising flashpoint of controversy. Podcasters, politicians and pundits from National Public Radio to the Daily Wire have weighed
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All the problems of the world could be solved if we simply remember that all we need is love. Love! Love is all we need. Is it as simple as John Lennon suggests in his iconic Beatles anthem? The answer is yes. Emphatically, yes! The problem is not with the truth of the mantra but
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