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Winter 2026 Is a Great Time to Read Some History
- Culture, Education, Featured, History, Literature, Western Civilization
- December 15, 2025






Women, minorities, and other so-called marginalized groups have multiple champions. All well and good, even inevitable, I suppose. Picture right now in your mind’s eye: Hillary Clinton, Ellen DeGeneres, Elton John, Black Lives Matter. Hey, even the redone Caitlyn Jenner. Yet no one has spoken for the average American male in a very long time,
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If you ask most women about how their male relatives, partners and friends respond to being sick, they’ll often tell you with an accompanying eye roll, “He’s such a baby.” “He’s extra whiny.” Or “he exaggerates so much.” But there may be a biological explanation for this behavior. Dubbed the “man flu,” this phenomenon has
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Just when it seemed things were returning to normal, some habits changed for the worse. The instability of COVID times took countless people out of contact with the outside world. Things became more informal, faster, and less social. One area of change was the fast-food franchises. People embraced no-touch food service during COVID. Now, the
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Have you ever wondered how it is that some people lie with such ease? A recent academic study confirmed what might seem an obvious truth: lying becomes easier the more one does it. “When you lie or cheat for your own benefit, it makes you feel bad,” Sophie van der Zee at the Free University of
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One of G. K. Chesterton’s most profound essays is simply titled “On Lying in Bed.” It begins in an odd and amusing way: “Lying in bed would be an altogether perfect and supreme experience if only one had a coloured pencil long enough to draw pictures on the ceiling.” Huh? Lolling about in bed isn’t
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Is The Lord of the Rings an allegory? It’s a question that continues to divide lovers of Tolkien’s magnum opus. Yes, say some. No, say others. In the face of such an impasse it might be helpful to ask Tolkien himself. Surely he must know. Surely, as the author, he has more authority to answer
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