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Reading Aloud Isn’t Just for Kids1
- Culture, Education, Entertainment, Family, Featured, Uncategorized, Western Civilization
- November 7, 2025
On my honeymoon, my husband and I began reading J. R. R. Tolkien’s “The Fellowship of the Ring” aloud to each other as we drove. Some may deem that a nerdy way of spending one’s newlywed days, but we enjoyed it, and our enjoyment led us to read through the entire “Lord of the Rings” trilogy within
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Readers Explain What Trump’s Win Means for America0
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- November 16, 2016
A week ago, Americans awoke to find that Donald Trump would be the next president of the United States. We asked our readers to share their insights on what Trump’s surprising means and how it would impact Western Civilization in the coming years. Below is a sampling of your insightful responses: [Editor’s Note: These responses
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Read Literature to Learn and Love the Truth0
- Education
- January 19, 2016
The other night I testified (via telephone) before the Alaska state legislature, on the standards their public schools are adopting for classes in English. I’d read the standards but didn’t have them in front of me, so I was taken aback when one of the representatives plucked a directive out of all the verbiage and asked
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Read Castro’s Comical Response to Cuba’s Human Rights Crimes0
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- March 22, 2016
The two presidents greeted one another, smiling broadly, before dozens of flashing cameras in Havana’s Revolutionary Palace on Monday. The visit was historic. Though it was President Obama’s fourth meeting with Cuban President Raúl Castro, it was the first time a U.S. president had visited Cuba in nearly a century. After greeting one another,
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Reactions to My Tweet Reveal the Ignorant Brutality of Young Socialists and Communists0
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- October 8, 2019
An eye-opening social experiment unfolded on my Twitter feed over the past several days that reveals a lot about America’s new brand of young communists and socialists. Not to bury the lede: Yes, they are still as repugnantly brutal as their predecessors in St. Petersburg and Phnom Penh – but today they add ignorance and infantilism to the
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Reactance: The Psychological Phenomenon Behind the Partisan Response to Roseanne and Samantha Bee0
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- June 5, 2018
Last week gave us yet another example of the all-too-common phenomenon of celebrity tweet-related scandals. Roseanne Barr, star of a recently revived (and subsequently canceled) self-titled sitcom, tweeted that African-American politician Valerie Jarrett was like the “Muslim Brotherhood and Planet of the Apes had a baby.” The outrage was immediate and, despite Roseanne’s apologies, ABC
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