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  • The Value of Human Life in the Face of Suffering

    The Value of Human Life in the Face of Suffering14

    Kyrie, eleison, I sang with my choir as I glanced down at my phone to see the news that Charlie Kirk had died from the gunshot to his neck. Lord, have mercy. Within seconds, I heard his name whispered from across the room as the news reached my choirmates. The internet flooded with reactions to

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  • The Value of a Self-Directed Summer for Kids

    The Value of a Self-Directed Summer for Kids0

    It’s all over the news these days. Kids are stressed-out, not playing, and, most worrisome, experiencing sharp increases in depression and suicide. Last month, a new paper published in the Journal of Abnormal Psychology revealed that adolescent mental health has deteriorated over the last decade, with soaring depression rates for young people ages 14 to

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  • The US Is Not ‘One Nation’ — And It Never Was

    The US Is Not ‘One Nation’ — And It Never Was0

    Patrick Buchanan is an informative and interesting writer. On foreign policy, especially, he’s long been one of the most reasonable voices among high-level American pundits.  When it comes to cultural matters, however, Buchanan has long held to a peculiar and empirically questionable version of American history in which the United States was once a mono-culture

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  • The Unwanted Visitor Coming to Breakfast

    The Unwanted Visitor Coming to Breakfast0

    An aged Indian, an elderly woman, and her granddaughter are prisoners of a band of Comancheros in the film The Outlaw Josey Wales. The old woman, dragged behind a wagon, is almost dead from exhaustion when the chief notices Josey Wales (Clint Eastwood) watching them from a nearby hill. “Get ready, little lady,” he says.

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  • The Unsolved Mystery of the Missing (Real) Journalists

    The Unsolved Mystery of the Missing (Real) Journalists9

    Suppose you were a reporter without an agenda, no ax to grind, no political affiliation. You never stepped foot inside a school of journalism. Even better, following in the tradition of old-time journalists like H. L. Mencken, Ernest Hemingway, or Rose Wilder Lane, you never attended college. You read history, economics, and political science, you

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  • The Unprecedented Death Spiral of 2021

    The Unprecedented Death Spiral of 20210

    Recent reports bring alarming numbers from insurance companies about the death rates of working-age men and women, which have spiked dramatically in the last few months. “We are seeing, right now, the highest death rate we have seen in the history of this business,” Scott Davison, CEO of OneAmerica, an old and respected insurance company,

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