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How Solitude Builds Human Connection
- Entertainment, Philosophy, Religion, Uncategorized, Western Civilization
- May 15, 2026

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From Franklin D. Roosevelt’s fireside chats to Ronald Reagan’s reputation as the “great communicator” to Barack Obama’s soaring oratory to Donald Trump’s Twitter use, styles of presidential communication have varied over time. But what is similar across all presidents is their ability to create persuasive messages that resonate with large segments of the U.S. population.
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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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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? 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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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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