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  • Why Saying ‘Let Me Know if There’s Anything I Can Do to Help’ is Not Actually Helpful

    Why Saying ‘Let Me Know if There’s Anything I Can Do to Help’ is Not Actually Helpful219

     “Let me know if there’s anything I can do to help you.” In our society, it’s practically required to say this when a fellow human being tells you they’re going through a hard time. I’ve said it. You’ve probably said it. And what did it achieve? Not a whole lot, I’m guessing. I would know.

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  • Why Saying ‘God Is in Control’ Isn’t Helpful

    Why Saying ‘God Is in Control’ Isn’t Helpful0

    Leading up to the election and on election day, I repeatedly encountered people calming their fears by saying, “It’s OK. No matter what happens, God is still on the throne.”  I identify as a Christian, but I find this sentiment unhelpful and troubling.  “It’s OK. God is still on the throne.”  What does that mean?

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  • Why Sasquatch and Other Crypto-Beasts Haunt our Minds

    Why Sasquatch and Other Crypto-Beasts Haunt our Minds0

    Since the 15th century, and possibly earlier, there have been accounts of hairy, nude and tremendously strong people living in the more obscure corners of the Caucasus. Called ‘Almas’, the creatures are occasionally shot, sometimes domesticated (and, in one case, wed). Across the sunbaked Eurasian steppe and high in the Himalayas, there is the white-furred

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  • Why Same-Sex Marriage Supporters Call it ‘Marriage Equality’

    Why Same-Sex Marriage Supporters Call it ‘Marriage Equality’0

    In a recent press conference, it was striking how often Opposition Leader Bill Shorten used the term “marriage equality” and, equally striking, that not even once did he refer to “same-sex marriage” in criticizing the Government for not allowing a vote on this issue in Parliament, but insisting on a plebiscite. We know that our choice

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  • Why Rome’s Republic Fell With Cicero

    Why Rome’s Republic Fell With Cicero0

    “With Cicero fell the republic.”—Russell Kirk As one of my grand Hillsdale colleagues, Dr. Stephen Smith, once said to me, there has never been a serious reform or renaissance in Western Civilization since the fall of the Roman Republic without the inspiration of Cicero (even if in mythic form) guiding it. If my colleague was

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  • Why Robin Williams’ Character from ‘Dead Poets Society’ is a Terrible Person

    Why Robin Williams’ Character from ‘Dead Poets Society’ is a Terrible Person0

    He’s an actor we all remember fondly, playing one of the most beloved characters in recent cinematic history in a movie that few in my chosen field of study, English Literature, regard as anything short of scripture. I’m speaking, of course, of Robin Williams and his role as John Keating in “Dead Poets Society,” a

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