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  • The Convocation Address You Will Never Hear Delivered

    The Convocation Address You Will Never Hear Delivered0

    Schools are reconvening and students are finally returning to the great halls of learning, albeit masked. Colleges are holding convocations to welcome a new class to begin their multiyear stay on campus. Convocation addresses are often delivered by the college president, traditionally a devastatingly unexciting speaker, while more lucky students get to hear wisdom disseminated

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  • The Control Freaks in Our Midst

    The Control Freaks in Our Midst0

    The story of Jesus feeding some 5,000 people, as told in the books of Matthew and John, is well known throughout the world. It goes like this: As a large and hungry crowd gathers to hear Jesus, his disciples nervously ask him how so many people can be fed. The only food in their midst

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  • The Contradiction of the Negligent ‘Helicopter Parent’

    The Contradiction of the Negligent ‘Helicopter Parent’4

    In any discussion of modern child-rearing methods, you will inevitably hear the pejorative nickname “helicopter parents.” This denotes mothers and fathers who supposedly smother and cosset their offspring. These kids will grow up to be “snowflakes” who need “safe spaces” to protect them from anything disagreeable in life. My children are currently ages three and

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  • The Continuing French Revolution

    The Continuing French Revolution0

    The values of the French Revolution are those of every radical revolutionary movement that succeeded it, including the one currently dismantling the basic institutions of American society and culture. But there are few historians of the Revolution who can be trusted to avoid propagandizing for it as they write about it. Pierre Gaxotte’s splendidly literate account,

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  • The Constitution of the Killing Fields

    The Constitution of the Killing Fields0

    The contents of a nation’s constitution, its most supreme law, ought to be composed with care and precision and implemented with scrupulous fidelity. Otherwise, there’s not much point in having one. Imagine a board game (like “Scrabble,” “Monopoly,” or “chess”) that came with these instructions: If there were an award for Worst Constitution of All

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  • The Conservative “Civil War” and the Losing Politics of Cynicism

    The Conservative “Civil War” and the Losing Politics of Cynicism0

    A number of media outlets are gleefully running headlines about a “civil war” within the conservative movement in America. While the term “civil war” is a little overblown, it’s true that fissures and fractures are appearing on the right, with prominent conservative voices – many of whom were formerly allied – turning on and denouncing

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