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  • Today’s Schools Are Producing ‘Hollow Men’

    Today’s Schools Are Producing ‘Hollow Men’0

    One of the most heinous crimes against humanity that modernity has perpetrated is its war on the humanities. And let’s not forget that the humanities are thus called because they teach us about our own humanity. A failure to appreciate the humanities must inevitably lead to the dehumanizing of culture and a disastrous loss of

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  • Today, Even Snow Pants are Accused of Promoting Toxic Masculinity

    Today, Even Snow Pants are Accused of Promoting Toxic Masculinity0

    “If we are serious about tackling the toxic masculinity which persists in our culture, we must look at the images we market to our children.” That’s the message that mother Angela Nickerson sends to Lands’ End this season in an open letter she published on Medium.com. The company, which last year featured an extensive interview

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  • Tocqueville’s ‘Self-Interest Rightly Understood’: The Profound Value of Compassion in the West

    Tocqueville’s ‘Self-Interest Rightly Understood’: The Profound Value of Compassion in the West6

    In Democracy in America, Alexis de Tocqueville writes compellingly about how religion in the U.S. turns us away from narrow self-interest to what he calls “self-interest rightly understood.” While the former is entirely selfish, in the latter we recognize how our interests are necessarily intertwined with the interests of others. When we act, we accept

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  • Tocqueville: Love of Equality Leads to Hatred

    Tocqueville: Love of Equality Leads to Hatred0

    It’s said that some of the fiercest fights in academia are over the narrowest of differences. It seems that Alexis de Tocqueville saw the same problem developing within democracy as the quest for equality grew. A French aristocrat, he came to America in the early 1800s and studied it extensively, composing his reflections in Democracy

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  • Tocqueville: How Individualism is a Sign of Equality

    Tocqueville: How Individualism is a Sign of Equality0

    When it comes to an emphasis on the individual, Americans lead the pack. That’s according to a Pew Research report which compared American and European sentiments on various democratic principles. Interestingly, Alexis de Tocqueville described this same tendency toward individualism nearly 200 years ago in his work Democracy in America. Individualism, Tocqueville observed, is a

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  • Tocqueville Sure Pegged the 2016 Election Right…

    Tocqueville Sure Pegged the 2016 Election Right…0

    If anyone doubted that the 2016 election is generating high amounts of interest, one look at primary turnout thus far will put those doubts to rest. According to Pew Research, primary participation seems headed for an overall high not seen for years. Such turnout seems like a good thing, particularly as many have mourned the

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