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  • The Eclipse of Europe

    The Eclipse of Europe0

    For centuries up to and including the 20th, Europe seemed the central pivot of world history. Then came the Great Civil War of the West, our Thirty Years’ War (1914-1945), where all of the great European powers—Britain, France, Germany, Italy, Russia—along with almost all of the rest, fought some of history’s greatest battles. Result: Europe’s

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  • The Easiest Holiday Gift that Everyone Really Wants

    The Easiest Holiday Gift that Everyone Really Wants0

    For twenty years, I offered seminars in Latin, history, and literature to home-educated students. When the Christmas season rolled around, I brought paper, envelopes, and stamps to class, and asked students to write a letter of gratitude to someone who had positively influenced their lives. Some wrote to their parents, some to relatives, others to

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  • The Dystopian Future Is Here

    The Dystopian Future Is Here0

    Once, we told stories of rescuing women in distress. Now, we hand them a prescription for assisted suicide. Two young women in the Netherlands, Jolanda Fun and Zoraya ter Beek, have recently done media interviews explaining their respective decisions to pursue euthanasia, despite being physically healthy. Fun, who planned to end her life on her 34th birthday

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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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