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  • What One of History’s Greatest Intellects Said About His Writings

    What One of History’s Greatest Intellects Said About His Writings0

    “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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  • What NFL Players Get Wrong about America

    What NFL Players Get Wrong about America0

    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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  • What New York’s 9-11 Memorial Says about Today’s Society

    What New York’s 9-11 Memorial Says about Today’s Society0

    • September 11, 2018

    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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  • What Netflix’s Hit Show ‘Adolescence’ Gets Wrong About Toxic Masculinity

    What Netflix’s Hit Show ‘Adolescence’ Gets Wrong About Toxic Masculinity22

    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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  • What Most People Don’t Understand About Love

    What Most People Don’t Understand About Love0

    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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  • What Most Freshman Will Experience Their First Week in College

    What Most Freshman Will Experience Their First Week in College0

    It took less than a week into the 2016-2017 academic year for several outrageous stories to surface on college campuses. At the University of Texas at Austin, thousands of students protested the state’s new campus carry law by wielding sex toys in a campaign called “Cocks Not Glocks.” The University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee told students that

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