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  • The One Thing about ‘Climate Change’ That’s Always Bothered Me…

    The One Thing about ‘Climate Change’ That’s Always Bothered Me…0

    On the issue of climate change, there’s one particular claim of its apologists that has always bothered me. And I don’t think I’m alone.   It’s not the idea that we should take better care of the earth—I’m all for adopting a less utilitarian view toward it. It’s not the idea that taking better care

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  • The One Question You Can Ask to Uncover a President’s Economic Principles

    The One Question You Can Ask to Uncover a President’s Economic Principles0

    Anonymous, a senior administration official writing in The New York Times, wants us to know President Trump “is not moored to any discernible first principles that guide his decision making.” Presumably, Anonymous believes other recent presidents operated by principles, and we can wonder who Anonymous thinks those presidents were and what principles he believes guided them. A

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  • The One Overlooked Place to Find Health, Happiness and Hope

    The One Overlooked Place to Find Health, Happiness and Hope0

    Do you remember that thing called the Covid pandemic a few years ago? Schools closed, businesses closed, churches closed. The nation spent weeks – in some cases months – holed up in their homes, rarely daring to set foot outside except for essentials. It was a nightmare that many of us thought we’d never forget.

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  • The One Cloud That Can Obstruct Christmas Splendors

    The One Cloud That Can Obstruct Christmas Splendors1

    For our redemption, Christ, the second person of the Triune God, the Son of God, became a man, entering what has typically been the world’s most sublime joy—the birth of a child. Scripture says that one night shepherds were guarding their flocks when an angel with radiant light suddenly appeared among them and announced, “The

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  • The Oldest Rhetorical Trick in the Book

    The Oldest Rhetorical Trick in the Book0

    In his brilliant 1956 collection, Minority Report, H.L. Mencken stated: If you were against the New Deal and its wholesale buying of pauper votes, then you were against Christian charity.  If you were against the gross injustices and dishonesties of the Wagner Labor Act, then you were against labor.  If you were against packing the

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  • The Old Left Wasn’t Very Leftist

    The Old Left Wasn’t Very Leftist2

    While researching a book on antifascism, it became clear to me that the contemporary left has strange ideas about what earlier leftists believed. This is especially true in the ascription of a certain timelessness to intersectional politics, which today’s antifascists are all about. In How Fascism Works by Yale Philosophy Professor Jason Stanley, and in

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