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  • Notre Dame Burns. As Does Our Civilization?

    Notre Dame Burns. As Does Our Civilization?0

    Nine-hundred years of heritage and beauty were left in smoldering ashes today after a fire consumed the once-great Cathedral of Notre Dame.    Back in college, and before I converted to Catholicism, I had the great fortune of visiting the Cathedral. Unfortunately, I didn’t appreciate it nearly enough. As a typical college kid, I went

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  • Nothing to See Here: Uncle Sam, Cover-Up Artist Extraordinaire

    Nothing to See Here: Uncle Sam, Cover-Up Artist Extraordinaire3

    Since the turn of the century, our government has come to resemble a no-tell motel. In those establishments, the shady guests come and go, and the management remains mum as to their identities. In the government, the stories come and go, and the management plays the same hush-hush game. Here are just a few of

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  • Nothing in Excess

    Nothing in Excess0

    • September 4, 2015

    Along with the phrase “Know thyself,” these words were carved into the columns of the Temple of Apollo at Delphi, where the famous Oracle presided as a symbol of wisdom in ancient Greece. They represent a fitting description of the virtue of temperance (Greek = sophrosyne), which Aristotle defines in the Nicomachean Ethics as having appetites “for the right things, in the

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  • Notes of an American Pessimist

    Notes of an American Pessimist0

    The writer of Ecclesiastes had seen enough of the world. Wealth, wisdom, labor, pleasure – he’d tried them all and arrived at the same conclusion: Vanity. A breath. A chasing after wind. No one seems to talk about Ecclesiastes anymore. Not even in Christian circles. Scholars and early Jewish rabbis have argued for centuries over

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  • Notes From the French COVID Underground

    Notes From the French COVID Underground0

    A 60-something French Intellectual Takeout reader and I began an email correspondence a few years ago. We lost touch in recent months, but when I learned of the severe COVID-19 restrictions being enforced in France, I reestablished contact to get her impressions. “I belong to the vax and health pass resistant group,” Marie wrote, “and

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  • Notes From the Asylum on the CARES Act

    Notes From the Asylum on the CARES Act0

    When it comes to economics, I must be dumb as a stump.            Like many others, I received a letter from The White House this past week announcing that I would receive $1200 from the Coronavirus, Relief, and Economic Security Act (CARES ACT). The CARES Act is bringing “this $2.2 trillion

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