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  • Our Children Are Not Chattel

    Our Children Are Not Chattel0

    COLORADO SPRINGS—They admitted it. Now they think they can get away with it. Three weeks ago, I reported to you on the appalling case of sixth grade student Rylee M., who was pressured by teachers at Chinook Trail Middle School to seal her mask to her face with thick blue painter’s tape. Another schoolmate came

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  • Other Things Have a Purpose… Why Not Human Beings?

    Other Things Have a Purpose… Why Not Human Beings?0

    • September 14, 2015

    In the relativist climate of our postmodern world, it’s becoming more typical to believe that human beings have no single, ultimate purpose – that “purpose” is something purely determined by the will of each individual.  But in the Nicomachean Ethics, Aristotle contended that just as other things have a purpose for which they are made, or a

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  • OSU Coach Censured for Choice of News Channel

    OSU Coach Censured for Choice of News Channel0

    Mike Gundy, the head coach of Oklahoma State University’s football team, is in hot water. His crime? Wearing a One America News Network (OAN) branded t-shirt while out fishing. This sparked the ire of Gundy’s star running back Chuba Hubbard. In response to the photo of Gundy’s fishing haul, Hubbard tweeted, “I will not stand for this..

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  • Oscar Wilde: Wanting to Be Left Alone Is Not ‘Selfishness’

    Oscar Wilde: Wanting to Be Left Alone Is Not ‘Selfishness’0

    Confession: Oscar Wilde is one of my favorite writers. Though he was what Dostoevsky would have described as “a dedicated sensualist,” Wilde possessed a true creative genius perhaps unmatched among his literary contemporaries. His essay “The Soul of Man under Socialism” is not, in my opinion, his best work. Written in 1891, it’s largely a

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  • Orwell’s ‘1984’: How to Misread a Classic

    Orwell’s ‘1984’: How to Misread a Classic0

    June 8, 2019, marks the 70th anniversary of George Orwell’s dystopian novel 1984. There will be no shortage of think pieces that will misinterpret its legacy. They will focus on social media, security cameras, data collection, and “fake news.” The problem? The novel was not a commentary on the downside of technology. It was meant

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  • Orwell’s “1984” One of the Bestsellers in Russia in 2015

    Orwell’s “1984” One of the Bestsellers in Russia in 20150

    Under the leadership of Vladimir Putin, some have accused Russia of slipping back toward totalitarianism. Which is why some news outlets see significance in the fact that George Orwell’s famous dystopian novel 1984 was one of the bestselling books in Russia this past year.   Paul Gobel at the blog Window on Eurasia writes, “Russians

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