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  • Roots of Our Insecurities

    Roots of Our Insecurities0

    The news regularly alerts us to allegedly rising rates of depression and anxiety for modern Americans. What we don’t often see is a general discussion about what could cause those issues in a world in which everything is supposedly getting better. Think about it: our grocery stores are full, we have air conditioning and heat

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  • Ronald Reagan Challenged Soviet Leader Mikhail Gorbachev to ‘Tear Down’ the Berlin Wall 31 Years Ago

    Ronald Reagan Challenged Soviet Leader Mikhail Gorbachev to ‘Tear Down’ the Berlin Wall 31 Years Ago0

    On this day (June 12) President Ronald Reagan gave what is probably his most famous and influential speech — the “Berlin Wall speech” — at the Brandenburg Gate in West Berlin, Germany on June 12, 1987. It was in this speech (at about 12:00 in the video below) that Reagan made his famous and history-changing

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  • Rome Burned and Nero Lost His Empire – What Will Happen to Europe this Century?

    Rome Burned and Nero Lost His Empire – What Will Happen to Europe this Century?0

    You have doubtless heard the well-worn euphemism that Rome’s emperor at the time, the decadent and unpopular Nero, “fiddled while Rome burned.” The expression of course has a double meaning: Not only did Nero stroke his violin making music while his people suffered, but he was an ineffectual leader in a time of deepening crisis. Europe is burning again, today. Literally and

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  • Rome and the Decline and Fall … of Bureaucracy?

    Rome and the Decline and Fall … of Bureaucracy?0

    We have all heard the comparison between the fall of Rome and the current state of decline in America. The comparison is often repeated, and its warning should not be forgotten. One writer who states this clearly is the historian Thomas Cahill. Writing on Roman decline in the book How the Irish Saved Civilization, Cahill

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  • Rome Abandoning Roman Numerals

    Rome Abandoning Roman Numerals0

    • July 23, 2015

    The barbarian conquest continues. The Telegraph reports that the city of Rome will be abandoning the use of Roman numerals on “street signs, official documents, bills and identity cards,” because they are “too complicated” for today’s people. I know, I know. Some will say that we shouldn’t fuss about this one action, that it doesn’t indicate

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  • Romanticism Is Killing Marriage. Is it Time to Rethink Some Things?

    Romanticism Is Killing Marriage. Is it Time to Rethink Some Things?0

    Today, arranged marriages are almost unheard of in the U.S. and Europe, though it remains a fairly common practice in many Eastern countries, including India, China, and Japan. To the modern mind, the very notion of an arranged marriage is somewhat antithetical to both our ideological values (individual choice) and romantic concepts (“true love”). For

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