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  • Lettuce Pray: Climate Change, Neo-Paganism, and the End of the World

    Lettuce Pray: Climate Change, Neo-Paganism, and the End of the World0

    The climate change movement has become the “modern world’s secular religion,” declared Wall Street Journal columnist Gerard Baker recently. Climate activists preach a gospel of conservation that aims to redeem humanity’s environmental sins. They counsel us to abstain from eating meat to reduce our “carbon footprint,” and prophesy that Earth will perish unless governments worldwide trust the oracle from whom we

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  • Letting Shakespeare Be

    Letting Shakespeare Be1

    In a recent piece for the New York Times, Drew Lichtenberg, the artistic producer at the Shakespeare Theater Company in Washington, laments the closing of the California Shakespeare Theater and the widespread decline in productions of Shakespeare across the country. The reasons, he suggests, have to do with many things, including the expense of mounting a

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  • Letters of Love: A Special Gift for Valentine’s Day

    Letters of Love: A Special Gift for Valentine’s Day1

    I received my first Valentine’s Day card just two weeks before my second birthday. My mother kept a scrapbook account of my childhood and youth. Today, the pages fall apart at a finger’s touch, but my birth certificate, school report cards, memoranda of various achievements and events, and cards sent to me in celebration of

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  • Letter to a Worried Grandma

    Letter to a Worried Grandma0

    A grandma wrote to say she’d seen her daughter cutting up her granddaughters’ meat at dinner—and the kids are in middle and high school. Their mom also chooses their clothes. The kids get straight A’s, but the grandma worries that they are being coddled into becoming imbeciles. My response: Grannie—I am sorry to say that

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  • Letter from the Trump Rally: Some Observations and Suspicions

    Letter from the Trump Rally: Some Observations and Suspicions0

    I left the house at 5:00 a.m. on Jan. 6 along with my daughter and two of her teenage children. We hit the road for D.C., joining up with a few other families on our way. When we arrived near the rally point, the vast lawn below the Washington Monument was already filling with participants.

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  • Let’s Stop Blaming Law-Abiding Gun Owners

    Let’s Stop Blaming Law-Abiding Gun Owners0

    In the corner of the room near my desk are two .22-caliber rifles, a 20-gauge shotgun, and a BB gun. The single shot .22 was my father’s when he was a boy, the six shot .22 was the gift of a friend, and the shotgun was given me as a teenager and hasn’t had the

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