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  • Walt Whitman’s (Surprising) Advice to Would-Be Writers

    Walt Whitman’s (Surprising) Advice to Would-Be Writers0

    Everyone wants to be a writer these days. This is normal. Writing involves sharing interesting thoughts, experiences, and stories. What’s not to like? The problem? Writing is, well, really hard. Ernest Hemingway, one of the best ever, once said, “There is nothing to writing. All you do is sit down at a typewriter and bleed.”

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  • Walking Away From Widget-making Tyranny

    Walking Away From Widget-making Tyranny0

    The other night I was shambling around online when I came across a Frontpage Mag article by Don Feder, “The Left’s Anti-Life Agenda.” Nothing in this article surprised me, but some of its information did sadden me.          The United States has a birth rate below replacement levels, Feder reports. China is

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  • Walker Percy’s Theory on the Redemptive Power of Hurricanes

    Walker Percy’s Theory on the Redemptive Power of Hurricanes0

    The idea that hurricanes can be anything other than destructive might sound strange to many people. And the idea that they can be a source of redemption and healing probably sounds downright absurd. But the novelist Walker Percy (1916-1990) believed just that. To Percy, a writer and philosopher from Louisiana, modern man’s great struggle was

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  • Walker Percy’s Diagnosis of American Depression Is Still True

    Walker Percy’s Diagnosis of American Depression Is Still True0

    One of Walker Percy’s central insights into the human condition was that most of the last century’s disastrous ideological movements stemmed from mistaken theories of the self. The most politically problematic of these flow from philosophical materialism. Materialism is the unacknowledged public philosophy of an increasing part of the American population, particularly those who identify as

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  • Walker Percy on Why Modern Life is “Disappointing”

    Walker Percy on Why Modern Life is “Disappointing”0

    • October 12, 2015

    From his renowned work Lost in the Cosmos: “As John Cheever said, the main emotion of the adult Northeastern American who has had all the advantages of wealth, education, and culture is disappointment. Work is disappointing. In spite of all the talk about making work more creative and self-fulfilling, most people hate their jobs, and with

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  • Walker Percy on How to Recover Education

    Walker Percy on How to Recover Education4

    Why is it that so many students in the modern American education system say that school is “boring”? Aren’t they learning about the most fascinating aspects of our world? Isn’t part of human nature, as Aristotle teaches, to desire to know? In his brilliant essay “The Loss of the Creature,” the novelist and philosopher Walker

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