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  • What Are We? Answering the Riddle of Mankind

    What Are We? Answering the Riddle of Mankind1

    In recent days I’ve been involved in a conversation about which aspects of modern life have the most impact on shaping the culture in which we live. Is it business or education? Is it politics or the media? How about medial issues or the health industry? Or perhaps the network of associations which form the

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  • What Are We Going to Do When It Happens Again?

    What Are We Going to Do When It Happens Again?6

    Recently I ordered a copy of Naomi Wolf’s The Bodies of Others: The New Authoritarians, COVID-19 and the War Against the Human, and began the book the day it arrived. Like you who are reading my words, I lived through the lockdowns, the masks, the school and church closures, and all the rest of it.

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  • What Are the News Media for?

    What Are the News Media for?3

    What are the news media for? The typical response is that their prime function is dispensing information. They provide us with what we need to know in order to successfully operate in the modern world. Perhaps the media do perform this function, at least partially. Certainly some of what is reported in the daily news

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  • What Are Presidential Elections About?

    What Are Presidential Elections About?1

    If a presidential candidate wins the election by a margin of 60–40, it is called a “landslide.” The winning party has a strong mandate to pass its policy program—and the losers face an uphill battle to stand up to the majority. Yet consider that 40 percent of the electorate equates to about 93.4 million people.

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  • What are ‘Checks and Balances’ in Government?

    What are ‘Checks and Balances’ in Government?0

    The modern understanding of checks and balances is that of government divided into separate and distinct branches. Each branch is endowed with certain safeguards to prevent against concentration and abuse of power. The concept of checks and balances has been widely implemented in a variety of constitutional governments, including the United States, where powers are distributed

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  • What Anne Shirley Teaches about Dealing with Victimhood

    What Anne Shirley Teaches about Dealing with Victimhood0

    Almost every reader has a small, select group of favorite books which have been read enough times to make the quotation of whole passages possible. For me, that group of books includes the Anne of Green Gables series by L.M. Montgomery. This penchant for Anne caused me to sit up and take notice when reviews

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