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  • Making Parents Responsible

    Making Parents Responsible0

    • September 22, 2015

    There is a lot of talk about the government needing to help single parents or to take care of children. In some cases, charity is absolutely necessary. But is it possible that we overemphasize the need of government, particularly the federal government, to help? In so doing, do we forget the natural and just duties

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  • Making Men the Old-Fashioned Way

    Making Men the Old-Fashioned Way1

    Lots of politicians running for higher office write books—or have them ghost-written. There they tell readers, which means prospective voters, what they’ve done and what they intend to do. Most of these are mere chest-pufferies that probably find few readers. Josh Hawley’s Manhood: The Masculine Virtues America Needs is different. Here the Missouri senator lays

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  • Making Meaning Is the Antidote to Troubled Feelings

    Making Meaning Is the Antidote to Troubled Feelings1

    A contemporary writer on Stoicism, Ryan Holiday, recently observed: Professional writers quickly learn one reality of the job: you have more bad days than good days. It’s the rare day that the writer finds that the words come out exactly the way they were in their head. More often, one is disappointed, distracted, struggling, committed

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  • Making Marx Proud: Today’s Campus Lunacy

    Making Marx Proud: Today’s Campus Lunacy0

    Earlier this summer, a survey posted on Twitter posed this question: “If you were dropped 2,000 years back in time with nothing but the knowledge you have now, what would you do?” A man named Timothy Snediker replied as follows: “Easy. I would find and assassinate Jesus of Nazareth. Theologically speaking, it would be really

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  • Making Home Cooking Great Again

    Making Home Cooking Great Again15

    Tater tot casserole and other down-home meals are back on the American menu! That conclusion comes thanks to recent data from Campbell’s soup company, indicating that more people are cooking at home than they have in the last five years. The CNBC article making the announcement immediately connected this trend to a flailing economy, suggesting that

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  • Making Good Men Is Not Rocket Science

    Making Good Men Is Not Rocket Science22

    In “Meditations: Book X:16,” the Roman Emperor Marcus Aurelius wrote: “Waste no more time arguing what a good man should be. Be one.” For several decades now, our culture has served as a battleground over the meaning of manhood. Some attack males for displaying “toxic masculinity,” or advocate that men become more like women, expressing

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