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  • The Declaration of Independence Founded a Theistic Republic

    The Declaration of Independence Founded a Theistic Republic1

    Mike Johnson opened his tenure as Speaker of the House with a speech citing the creator God mentioned in the Declaration of Independence. The speech drew criticism from columnists in the Washington Post, Time, PBS, and the New York Times, among others. Much of it shifted between Johnson’s support of Trump, his church affiliations, and

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  • The Decay of our Language is Happening

    The Decay of our Language is Happening0

    “Political chaos is connected with the decay of language.”   -George Orwell   In an article entitled “Valuing Vocabulary,” published Friday (May 20), Cherie Harder, President of the Trinity Forum, connects the state of modern politics, especially the current presidential election campaign, with lessons to be learned from George Orwell’s novel, Nineteen Eighty-Four.  In Orwell’s

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  • The Debt We Owe to Suffering

    The Debt We Owe to Suffering41

    In L. B. Cowan’s “Streams in the Desert,” a book of meditations given me by a friend, a recent entry has this line: “Who can estimate how much we owe to our suffering and pain?” That’s a sentiment that runs against the American grain in this century. In 2023, for instance, some 60 million Americans sought treatment

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  • The Debate Around COVID-19 Is Starting to Sound Familiar

    The Debate Around COVID-19 Is Starting to Sound Familiar0

    The debate over COVID-19, both the virus and the policy response, is starting to feel a lot like another complicated scientific issue: global warming. It only took about a month – lockdowns and stay-at-home orders didn’t come into full effect until mid-to-late March at earliest – for us to force a question of public health

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  • The Death of the Anti-War Left

    The Death of the Anti-War Left10

    Anti-war activists used to be at home on the left. In the mid-2000s, Democrats were the first to oppose the War on Terror. During the 2004 Democrat primary, for example, the last rival to John Kerry was Dennis Kucinich, a staunch critic of the Iraq War who would later propose the establishment of the “Department

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  • The Death of Reason in the Land of Make Believe

    The Death of Reason in the Land of Make Believe0

    In the driveway sits my nine-year-old Honda Civic, which I purchased two years ago after a deer demolished my Accord. Fingerprints of my grandchildren dot the rear interior window, the carpeting and seats are screaming for a vacuum, a large, reddish dent mars the paneling above the rear tire on the passenger side, and the

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