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  • Quiz: How Strong is Your Thriftiness Quotient?

    Quiz: How Strong is Your Thriftiness Quotient?0

    Ben Franklin knew a lot about—preached and practiced —  thrift. So how do you go about measuring thrift or any individual‘s thriftiness quotient? I get asked this question all the time, so I devised this handy Thrift Meter. Try it and pass it along. Is there an Index or some gauge that can give you a reliable account

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  • QUIZ: Can You Ace This High School Literature Exam?

    QUIZ: Can You Ace This High School Literature Exam?0

            — Dear Readers, Big Tech is suppressing our reach, refusing to let us advertise and squelching our ability to serve up a steady diet of truth and ideas. Help us fight back by becoming a member for just $5 a month and then join the discussion on Parler @CharlemagneInstitute! Save this article to favorites

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  • Quit Complaining About the Weather

    Quit Complaining About the Weather0

    It’s wintertime in the upper Midwest. Aside from the fact that I’ll be waking up to snow on the ground every morning from here until, oh, probably mid-March, I’ll also be hearing people complain about the cold weather until it dies a slow, painful death in the spring. But even then, I suspect my fellow

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  • Quiet Courage, Not Machismo, is What Makes ‘Dunkirk’ So Compelling

    Quiet Courage, Not Machismo, is What Makes ‘Dunkirk’ So Compelling0

    The story of Dunkirk is remarkable. Civilians sailed their fishing boats, pleasure yachts, and trawlers across the English Channel to France to attempt a rescue mission for 400,000 British and French soldiers encircled by Hitler’s Wehrmacht—the German army—in 1940. If those men were captured, England would have effectively been knocked out of the war. In

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  • Quid est Veritas (‘What is Truth’) and Can we Know it?

    Quid est Veritas (‘What is Truth’) and Can we Know it?0

    Quid est veritas? What is truth? Pontius Pilate’s question is one of the most famous ever asked. It is also one that has proved difficult to answer. It has baffled and confused some of the world’s most celebrated philosophers. It remains the most important of all questions, the one we must ask in order to

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  • Quick Quiz: Do You Know the Basics of Modern Philosophy?

    Quick Quiz: Do You Know the Basics of Modern Philosophy?0

    The ideas of the great modern philosophers have shaped the way men and women today view the world. Therefore, for the sake of cultural literacy, one should have some familiarity with these ideas.  Take this brief quiz below to see if you’re up to speed with some of the basics of modern philosophy.    

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