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  • The Art of Not Having an Opinion

    The Art of Not Having an Opinion0

    There’s a persistent pressure in the air – felt in every news headline, on every social media platform. A war breaks out. A celebrity says something provocative. A politician signs a bill. And almost immediately, we’re asked: What’s your opinion? We’ve conflated access to information with mandatory commentary. Because we can see everything in real

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  • The Art of Beautification: The Graces of Ordinary Life

    The Art of Beautification: The Graces of Ordinary Life0

    The beautification of life, the highest “household art” of making people happy and places pretty, also encompasses the adornment of the soul. Because life is more than work, economics, and money, the life of the heart and spirit need constant replenishment… What do decorating a room, wearing tasteful clothes, expressing cheerfulness, offering friendship, enjoying Mayday,

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  • The Arrogant Ignorance of the ‘Well-Educated’

    The Arrogant Ignorance of the ‘Well-Educated’0

    On more than one occasion my essays for The Imaginative Conservative have been inspired by bumper stickers. Many moons ago, for instance, I wrote “The Wisdom and Wickedness of Women” in response to seeing a bumper sticker declaring that “Well Behaved Women Do Not Make History.” Recently, sitting in traffic, I saw this very same bumper sticker on

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  • The Armistice Day Prediction That Came True

    The Armistice Day Prediction That Came True0

    As we approach the centenary of Armistice Day, 1918, let’s spend a few minutes with a British writer who supported his country’s war against Germany and worried about the peace that resulted from it. That writer would be G. K. Chesterton, who died in 1936, just before World War II, or the war that he

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  • The Argument Beneath the Surface of Gun Control

    The Argument Beneath the Surface of Gun Control0

    The shock of three mass shootings in a week has prompted even the conservative newspaper The New York Post to call for the banning of what it calls “weapons of war” and President Trump to upset his base by tweeting that “Republicans and Democrats must come together and get strong background checks.” Several Republicans have

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  • The Argument Against Illegal Immigration No One Wants to Make

    The Argument Against Illegal Immigration No One Wants to Make0

    Last year, as a member of a Southern California moms’ group, I received an email from a woman with a dilemma. Her part-time nanny, who had been in her employ a little over a year, was asking for a raise, from $25 to $30-an-hour. The mom wanted a basis for comparison before she said “No.”

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