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  • Retooling Pronouns: Let’s Bring Back the Royal ‘We’

    Retooling Pronouns: Let’s Bring Back the Royal ‘We’0

    Queen Victoria, so the story goes, sometimes resorted to the royal “we.” “We are not amused,” she might remark – one assumes with a sniff – at some slightly off-color story or inopportune remark. But whom did the queen intend by “we?” The spirit of Prince Albert? Other members of the court? The entire British

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  • Retina Scans at Airports Have Arrived

    Retina Scans at Airports Have Arrived0

    For some 15 years, airport security has become steadily more invasive. There are ever more checkpoints, ever more requests for documents as you make your way from the airport entrance to the airplane. Passengers adapt to the new changes as they come. But my latest flight to Mexico, originating in Atlanta, presented all passengers with

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  • Rethinking the Burning Question of Cremation

    Rethinking the Burning Question of Cremation0

    It has been pointed out that death is now the taboo which sex once was. While having become numb to the latter, to the former we have become utterly prudish. The increasingly widespread practice of cremating the dead is good evidence in favour of this thesis. Our acceptance of cremation reveals that we no longer

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  • Rethinking Education: Time to Make Some Changes

    Rethinking Education: Time to Make Some Changes2

    Recently I visited my daughter, her husband, and the grandkids in rural Pennsylvania, where they live in a large 140-year-old house. A short walk away is Gregory the Great Academy, grades 9-12, where my son-in-law Mike works and where my oldest grandson is a student. The 60-some boys in the school receive a classical education

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  • Retailers Rediscovering Rest on Thanksgiving Weekend

    Retailers Rediscovering Rest on Thanksgiving Weekend0

    Ever been disheartened by the scores of cars you see in mall parking lots while driving home from Thanksgiving dinner at Grandma’s? The recent push to expand Black Friday onto the Thanksgiving holiday itself seems to signal that the days of rest, quietness, and family time are over. But after a few years of this

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  • Resuscitating Civility in the Wake of Charlie Kirk’s Death

    Resuscitating Civility in the Wake of Charlie Kirk’s Death22

    In “The Soul of Civility,” Alexandra Hudson makes a sharp distinction between civility and politeness. Politeness and manners are the form, the technique, of an act, but civility is more. … Instead of focusing on the form alone, civility gets to the motivation of an act. Civility is a disposition that recognizes and respects the common humanity, the fundamental personhood, and

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