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  • Our Words Matter: Writing in the Age of Communication

    Our Words Matter: Writing in the Age of Communication0

    In the fall the war was always there, but we did not go to it any more. It was cold in the fall in Milan and the dark came very early. Then the electric lights came on, and it was pleasant along the streets looking in the windows. There was much game hanging outside the

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  • Our Unrelenting Obsession with Race and Gender

    Our Unrelenting Obsession with Race and Gender0

    Though I generally enjoy my solitary days, living alone as the caretaker for my daughter’s four-bedroom house is not always idyllic. In addition to my own work, I keep the yard shaped up, maintain the house in reasonably good order, and prepare my meals. I try to eat healthy foods but take little pleasure in

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  • Our Universe: Chaos, or Cosmos?

    Our Universe: Chaos, or Cosmos?0

    Is the universe a meaningless collection of lifeless matter? We live on a small planet in an out-of-the-way corner of an insignificant galaxy, and though our lives might feel real and important, is that just a delusion? After all, the only thing that’s really going on is that atoms are randomly careening off of one

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  • Our So-Called ‘Tolerant’ Society Is Actually Very Dogmatic

    Our So-Called ‘Tolerant’ Society Is Actually Very Dogmatic0

    The Book of Daniel tells us that the three Jewish youths in Babylon were cast into a “white-hot furnace” for not falling down and worshipping the king’s golden statue. Thousands of early Christians were reportedly martyred for refusing to deny Christ and affirm the divinity of the Roman emperor. Of course, this kind of thing

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  • Our Problem Is American Apophenia

    Our Problem Is American Apophenia0

    A reader of my articles sent me the following two words along with the cryptic suggestion that, given our times and my sensibilities, I might make use of them in a column. Having no idea at all what either word meant, I looked them up online and unearthed these definitions: Apophenia (/æpoʊˈfiːniə/) is the tendency to mistakenly

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  • Our Present Danger: China’s War on the United States

    Our Present Danger: China’s War on the United States0

    “We are at risk of losing a war today because too few of us know that we are engaged with an enemy, the Chinese Communist Party (CCP), that means to destroy us.”            With these words Brian T. Kennedy kicked off a speech he gave at a Hillsdale College National Leadership

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