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  • The Importance of Male Mentorship (and How to Find It)

    The Importance of Male Mentorship (and How to Find It)5

    My favorite comedic and outdoor author, Patrick McManus, said this in his book, A Fine and Pleasant Misery: “Every kid should have an old man. … Fathers are alright … but they spend entirely too much time … at work.” While written for humor, the wisdom of this idea has the potential to answer a

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  • The Importance of Making Mistakes

    The Importance of Making Mistakes1

    A couple of years ago, I received a post-semester email from a student’s father. He was upset about his child’s final grade in my class, which had landed somewhere between a high B and a low A. The grade was clearly not very low, but the student’s father wanted me to reconsider. Apparently, a specific

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  • The Importance of Learning About Local History and Culture

    The Importance of Learning About Local History and Culture5

    A human community, then, if it is to last long, must exert a sort of centripetal force, holding local soil and local memory in place. Practically speaking, human society has no work more important than this. These are the words of farmer and writer Wendell Berry in his essay “The Work of Local Culture.” We

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  • The Importance of Chesterton, Tolkien and Lewis

    The Importance of Chesterton, Tolkien and Lewis0

    [Editor’s Note: Joseph Pearce recently granted the following interview to The Whetstone, a student newspaper of Montreal College, North Carolina.] What do you see as your role, your calling, and how does it correlate with your work as a scholar? I am trying to serve as a cultural catalyst, evangelizing the wider culture with the beauty of

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  • The Importance of Being Jolly

    The Importance of Being Jolly1

    In the common parlance of modern America, the word “jolly” has fallen distinctly out of use. While words like “fun” and “happy” abound in everyday conversation, “jolly” is, in the minds of many, inexorably tied to Christmas. Traditional carols have kept the word alive in reference to the festivities of this season; one would be

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  • The Implications of NYC’s New Transgender “Guidelines”

    The Implications of NYC’s New Transgender “Guidelines”0

    Just before Christmas, the City of New York issued new “guidance” for enforcing a 2002 law prohibiting “discrimination on the basis of gender identity or expression.” Some conservative websites interpreted the new guidelines to mean that merely addressing a “transgendered” person by a pronoun of the “wrong” gender could result in a $250,000 fine for

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