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  • Paul Kengor’s ‘A Pope and a President’ is a Divine Read

    Paul Kengor’s ‘A Pope and a President’ is a Divine Read0

    Whether you are a liberal or a conservative, your politics will likely be confirmed by reading A Pope and the President.  And that’s too bad.  Whether you are of a religious bent or not, your take on matters of faith will likely remain what they were before you opened this book.  And that’s too bad

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  • Patriotism: Why So Many Intellectuals Can’t Understand It

    Patriotism: Why So Many Intellectuals Can’t Understand It0

    Sam Haselby says this “should be the end times” for American patriotism. Yet the opposite seems to be happening, and he can’t understand why. America has no national education system, he notes. No conscription. No government agency that enforces the red-white-and-blue rituals performed at schools and sporting events coast-to-coast. Nor does America have a territorial

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  • Patriotism, Gratitude, and Western Civilization

    Patriotism, Gratitude, and Western Civilization3

    Many years ago, I attended West Forsyth High School near Winston-Salem, North Carolina. Though our sports teams then were generally mediocre, at basketball and football games our cheerleaders would inevitably break into a chant: “WEST IS BEST! WEST IS BEST!” That cheer came back to me while reading “The Decline and Fall of the Descendants

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  • Patriotism Shouldn’t Be Partisan

    Patriotism Shouldn’t Be Partisan13

    In recent decades, patriotism has become partisan, a sentiment reserved for conservatives while frowned upon by the left. This distaste is spreading to those further on the right. They maintain a nationalist attitude, but discard patriotism as pointless. Yet to have a proper perspective on nationalism, patriotism is crucial, for it helps us have a

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  • Patriotism Isn’t Fascism

    Patriotism Isn’t Fascism0

    Last week my friend John was chatting with a trainer at the gym, who complained that patrons were putting their trash into the wrong recycling bins. John, who keeps up with this sort of thing, explained to him that it probably made little difference since the United States only recycles a fraction of its plastic

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  • Patriotism Is Cool Again

    Patriotism Is Cool Again22

    “Young people these days” get an awful bad rap. Boomers and Generation X tend to view Generation Z and millennials as immature political activists glued to their flickering screens, ungratefully destroying the country which older generations tirelessly built. But a lot could be said about the boomer mind’s unfair assessment of young people’s beliefs, financial

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