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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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  • Questions, But No Answer

    Questions, But No Answer0

    Questions about various events, propositions, and ideas in our culture and politics have me bemused, baffled, and bewildered. As a young woman in Tennessee once said when I asked for directions, “Well, I am just plain bumfuzzled.” Bumfuzzled. That’s it exactly. My inquiries below may strike readers as intended to provoke, but provocation is the

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  • Questions Swirl Surrounding Biden’s Dropout

    Questions Swirl Surrounding Biden’s Dropout2

    It’s been a wild ten days. Trump was almost killed, we experienced a major cyber outage, the head of the secret service resigned, and Joe Biden dropped out of the presidential race. The way this last incident unfolded has left many furrowing their brows in confusion. Let’s examine the timeline of events. On Wednesday, July

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  • Questioning the Back-To-School Default

    Questioning the Back-To-School Default2

    Back-to-school time is upon us. My Instagram feed is starting to fill with first-day photos as a new school year begins this week in some parts of the country. For those of us who homeschool, we often get asked, “So, why did you decide to homeschool?” We respond with various personal and educational reasons, including the top motivator for

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  • Questioning ‘Diversity’ is the New Blasphemy

    Questioning ‘Diversity’ is the New Blasphemy0

    I’ve been watching for a couple weeks now the saga of Paul Griffiths, Warren Professor of Catholic Theology at Duke University. For those unfamiliar, in February, Griffiths, an esteemed scholar who has taught at Notre Dame, the University of Chicago, and numerous other colleges, sent an email to colleagues urging them to not accept the

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  • Queen Elizabeth’s Savvy Response to a Sultan Who Demanded Homage

    Queen Elizabeth’s Savvy Response to a Sultan Who Demanded Homage2

    In late September 1579, Queen Elizabeth received a satin bag that contained a parchment sprinkled with gold dust. It was a message from Murad III, sultan of the Ottoman Empire, composed in Arabic script. (A second letter written in Latin was also presented to the queen.) It was the first communication between an English monarch

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