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  • Our Narcissistic Age Could Use Some ‘Casablanca’ Values

    Our Narcissistic Age Could Use Some ‘Casablanca’ Values0

    Casablanca never could have been made today. The classic movie, which turned seventy-five this year, features themes that would never fly in today’s world: that personal happiness is not the most important goal; that feelings ought to be ignored at times; and that romantic love isn’t always worth pursuing. Talk about retro values. In case

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  • Our Modern World’s Inability to Understand Fairy Tales

    Our Modern World’s Inability to Understand Fairy Tales0

    It’s not fair. This refrain—so quick to be invoked by young children, who seem to develop a thirst for justice very young indeed—may seem like a curious place to begin in defense of fairy tales. But let me explain. But to backtrack a little further first—well, the latest salvo against fairy tales comes from two Hollywood

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  • Our Modern Existential Dilemma Dissolved With Francis Schaeffer

    Our Modern Existential Dilemma Dissolved With Francis Schaeffer5

    The angst felt by philosophers, the meaninglessness faced by even the greatest modern artists and musicians, and the rampant drug use and trail of despair and nihilism writ large in Western culture since the 1960s are some of the more obvious signs of the crisis faced by modern people. But the cause of this crisis—the

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  • Our IQs Are Shrinking (A Lot), Study Finds

    Our IQs Are Shrinking (A Lot), Study Finds1

    There is a tendency for man to think one’s own generation is the smartest to ever strut the Earth. “Each generation,” Orwell quipped, “imagines itself to be more intelligent than the one that went before it, and wiser than the one that comes after it.” This tendency likely is even more acute for those who’ve

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  • Our Information Society is Not Yielding More Knowledge

    Our Information Society is Not Yielding More Knowledge0

    In today’s world, modern celebrities and artists seem to be primarily concerned with their image and whether or not it is aligned with the politically correct thought of the day. It is for this reason that it’s easy to sit up and take note when a celebrity actually goes against the grain of today’s conventional

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  • Our Ignorance of the Past Condemns Us to Perpetual Childhood

    Our Ignorance of the Past Condemns Us to Perpetual Childhood0

    Zebulon Vance, governor of North Carolina during the Civil War, attained a pardon from the United States government for siding with the Confederacy and became a Senator. His colleagues in Congress enjoyed the company of this witty, earthy man, and a group of them invited Vance to visit them in New England. At one get-together,

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