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  • Why Lying in Bed Can Be a Good Thing

    Why Lying in Bed Can Be a Good Thing0

    • October 2, 2018

    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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  • Why Lord of the Rings is NOT an Allegory (And Why it Very Much is)

    Why Lord of the Rings is NOT an Allegory (And Why it Very Much is)9

    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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  • Why Liberals Need David Duke

    Why Liberals Need David Duke0

    The race riots in Charlottesville, VA, have provided the liberal media with another opportunity to engage in the moral posturing at which they are so proficient. Racism is evil, but it is fortunately now exceptional and weak-to-non-existent as a political force. We don’t have institutional racism anymore, so we have to invent opportunities to lure

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  • Why Liberalism and Conservatism Are BOTH Unsustainable

    Why Liberalism and Conservatism Are BOTH Unsustainable0

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  • Why Liberal Chesterton Shunned the Progressive Label

    Why Liberal Chesterton Shunned the Progressive Label0

    We are all bundles of contradictions to some extent. Some bundles are bigger than others. And some contradictions are more contradictory than others. Until his mid-thirties, self-described reactionary G. K. Chesterton generally supported the Liberal party of England. Does that make him a bundle of contradictions? And if so, how big and how contradictory? Let’s

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  • Why Lepanto Still Matters

    Why Lepanto Still Matters1

    In Iran this week, a young woman named Golrokh Ebrahimi Iraee was sentenced to five years in prison. Her crime? She had “insulted Islamic sanctities.” Iranian authorities had ransacked her home, and inside they discovered an unpublished fictional story that apparently frowned on the ancient practice of stoning people to death. It appears Iraee will

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