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  • The Vanishing Hardy Boys

    The Vanishing Hardy Boys1

    Gone are the days of the Renaissance Man; the polymath ideal of humanism; man is the center of the universe and he should embrace the search for all knowledge because man alone has the limitless capacity for development! Alberti, the architect, painter, poet, scientist, horseman, and mathematician; Da Vinci, the artist, painter, inventor, musician, scientist, and writer;

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  • The Value of Silence: 3 Thoughts from Proverbs

    The Value of Silence: 3 Thoughts from Proverbs4

    These last few weeks have attacked me with musings on silence. It started with an anonymous quote I couldn’t shake off (“Never miss an opportunity to remain silent”) and threaded its way through my intellectual and social life. I began to see my unwarranted eagerness to speak in classroom discussions, group conversations, and even social

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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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