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  • The Forgotten Father of Modern Fantasy Literature

    The Forgotten Father of Modern Fantasy Literature5

    George MacDonald had a colossal impact on some of the most brilliant early-20th-century writers, including C.S. Lewis, G.K. Chesterton, and J.R.R. Tolkien. He was a Scottish minister, poet, and fairytale writer, but today, much of his work has been abandoned. It’s time to shake the dust from MacDonald’s magical and redemptive works, many of which

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  • The Forgotten Family Ritual That Bonds Parents and Children

    The Forgotten Family Ritual That Bonds Parents and Children0

    A friend of mine told me how as a child she informed her neighborhood playmate one evening that she had to go home. It was time for dinner. Her playmate gave her a confused look. “Don’t you eat dinner with your family?” my friend asked her. “No, we never do that,” came the answer. Unfortunately,

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  • The Forgotten Destruction of Jewish Homes During ‘Kristallnacht’

    The Forgotten Destruction of Jewish Homes During ‘Kristallnacht’0

    Every November, communities around the world hold remembrances on the anniversary of the Nazis’ brutal assault on the Jews during “Kristallnacht.” Also known as “the Night of Broken Glass,” it’s one of the most closely scrutinized events in the history of Nazi Germany. Dozens of books have been published about the hours between Nov. 9

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  • The Forgotten Conservatism of ‘No Country for Old Men’

    The Forgotten Conservatism of ‘No Country for Old Men’0

    When students hear me introduce No Country for Old Men as a deeply political novel with a right-wing position on contemporary American society, those who have seen the film adaptation by the Coen brothers perhaps wonder if the movie and the Cormac McCarthy novel are unrelated entities that just happen to bear the same title. What they

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  • The Flag Protection Amendment and American Greatness

    The Flag Protection Amendment and American Greatness0

    One of the great characteristics of Americans is their candor. Among the reasons we declared independence from what we believed to be the excesses of a corrupt British monarchy and aristocracy was our contempt for pretense, deference, and pomposity. We believed, instead, in simple virtue and simple values such as truth, decency, honesty, temperance, and

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  • The Five Virtues of a Good Writer

    The Five Virtues of a Good Writer2

    The great journalist and author Henry Hazlitt (1894-1993) offered the following excellent advice to writers: The reader who seeks to write well and think well should aim first at the essential qualities—coherence, clarity, precision, simplicity, and brevity. Euphony and rhythm are of course also desirable, but they are like the final rubbing on a fine

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