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  • Why Our Culture is So Fascinated by Monsters

    Why Our Culture is So Fascinated by Monsters0

    I have always wondered why our culture our culture is so fascinated by evil and darkness. When Dante appears on high school reading lists it is always in the form of his Inferno, but never his Purgatorio or Paradiso. One of the biggest educational publishers, Scholastic Books, is known primarily for Harry Potter and The

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  • Why Our Bookstores Never Participated in Banned Books Week

    Why Our Bookstores Never Participated in Banned Books Week5

    Banned Books Week, October 1–7, is here again. Bookstores and libraries across the country will feature displays of what they call banned books. Some mainstream news outlets will offer editorials and articles denouncing censorship in places like school and public libraries. We’ll doubtless hear this year’s theme and slogan, “Let Freedom Read,” repeated from these

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  • Why Our Age Is Defined by Propaganda

    Why Our Age Is Defined by Propaganda0

    There were two main streams of reaction from the political Left following their losses in the 2016 election. One group saw the election results as a signal for the Left to engage in some sustained self-critique, introspection, and dialogue, in the hopes that they would emerge a bit wiser and stronger in the next election.

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  • Why Ordinary People Enable Totalitarians

    Why Ordinary People Enable Totalitarians4

    Cicero said history “casts light on reality and is a guide to life.” The wisdom gained by understanding the past helps prevent the same errors from being repeated. Sebastian Haffner pursued answers to the questions of how the Nazis rose to power in Germany and why the German people did not stop them. In 1939, he wrote

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  • Why Only Villains Are Running for President

    Why Only Villains Are Running for President0

    Steven Pressfield has written best-selling historical fiction books such as Gates of Fire and Tides of War. He writes nonfiction as well; and in my development as a writer, few books have helped me more than Pressfield’s The War of Art. When Pressfield talks about writing, I listen. Recently he wrote a series of blog

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  • Why Only Christianity Can Save the West… Again

    Why Only Christianity Can Save the West… Again2

    Hellenistic thought experienced its “golden age” during the the 5th and 4th centuries B.C. This period witnessed the lives of some of history’s greatest philosophers, teachers, authors, and playwrights, and culminated with the spreading of Hellenism by Alexander the Great. But by the end of the 1st century B.C., Hellenistic thought had been exhausted. Its

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