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  • The Dystopia of Orwell’s “1984”

    The Dystopia of Orwell’s “1984”0

    Though gorgeously written in its own right, 1984 also benefitted from the timing of its release, at the very end of the Second World War and at the beginning of the Cold War. Though a delusional love affair existed between the West and the Soviet Union in 1943, disillusionment and reality set in in the few

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  • The Dutch Are Awake. Are We?

    The Dutch Are Awake. Are We?3

    “Who’s there?” That challenge by a guard at Elsinore Castle is the first line in Shakespeare’s Hamlet. “Who’s there?” is a question that pervades the play. We in the audience ask each of the play’s main characters—the ghost of Hamlet’s father; the ghost’s murderer, Claudius; Hamlet’s mother Gertrude, now married to her husband’s killer; the

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  • The Dumbest Laws in Each of the 50 States

    The Dumbest Laws in Each of the 50 States0

    In recent weeks, we’ve seen 5-year-olds fined for selling lemonade, pet sitters ticketed for watching cats without a permit, teens handcuffed for selling bottles of water to thirsty people, and efforts to criminalize screen time for kids. It got us thinking: how many silly, outrageous, and/or superfluous laws are there out there? Here are 50 laws that will make

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  • The Duchess of Cambridge on the Benefits of a Childhood Lived Outdoors

    The Duchess of Cambridge on the Benefits of a Childhood Lived Outdoors0

    Over the weekend, Kate Middleton, Duchess of Cambridge, debuted her garden design for the Chelsea Flower Show. The whole family came along making for some adorable photos including the following:         View this post on Instagram                       A post shared by Kensington

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  • The Dual and Possessed Personality Haunting America

    The Dual and Possessed Personality Haunting America0

    In “Remembering the Right,” the second volume of collected articles from Chronicles Magazine on the lives and work of notable conservative teachers, writers, and philosophers, we find a piece about G.K. Chesterton.            Reading about this man of letters—you name the genre, and Chesterton probably wrote at least one book that

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  • The Dream and the Nightmare of Globalization

    The Dream and the Nightmare of Globalization0

    After World War II, only the United States possessed the capital, the military, freedom, and the international good will to arrest the spread of global Stalinism. To save the fragile postwar West, America was soon willing to rebuild and rearm war-torn former democracies. Over seven decades, it intervened in proxy wars against Soviet and Chinese

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