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  • James Monroe is the Latest Victim of the PC Culture

    James Monroe is the Latest Victim of the PC Culture0

    In the latest move in what Politico has dubbed the “Nomenclature Wars,” a St. Paul school is considering scrubbing its namesake, President James Monroe, due to his slave-owning past. Matching similar trends around the country, this change is motivated by concern that the school name might not reflect the values of the community. In a

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  • James Madison Would Be Appalled at Fauci’s Contempt for Checks and Balances

    James Madison Would Be Appalled at Fauci’s Contempt for Checks and Balances1

    Fauci’s problem isn’t just with Judge Kathryn Kimball Mizelle. His problem is with the American system.

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  • James Madison on the Separation of Church and State

    James Madison on the Separation of Church and State1

    It’s not unusual to witness discussions on the topic of whether or not the United States was founded “as a Christian nation.” (Or, worded slightly differently, whether or not America had a Christian founding.) The answer to this question depends largely on semantics. On one hand, the Founding Fathers were overwhelmingly Christian and built a

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  • Jacques Barzun Observations on Culture and Decline

    Jacques Barzun Observations on Culture and Decline0

    Jacques Barzun (1907-2012) was one of the preeminent historians of the 20th century. Valedictorian of the 1920 class at Columbia, where he also received his Ph.D., Barzun wrote extensively on culture and education while serving in professorial and leadership roles at Cambridge and Columbia. His magnum opus, From Dawn to Decadence (2000), which traces the

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  • Jacinda Ardern and Whether Women Can Really ‘Have It All’

    Jacinda Ardern and Whether Women Can Really ‘Have It All’5

    New Zealand Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern certainly hasn’t been on my list of favorite people for the last several years, largely due to her draconian COVID policies on masks, vaccines, and quarantines, and her “government knows best” attitude. But I finally had something to applaud her for the other day when she announced her resignation,

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  • J.R.R. Tolkien’s Hope for the Modern World

    J.R.R. Tolkien’s Hope for the Modern World0

    Clyde Kilby, an English professor from Wheaton College, worked with Tolkien in the summer of 1966. “Tolkien was an Old Western Man who was staggered at the present direction of civilization,” Kilby recorded after a summer of conversations with Tolkien. “Even our much vaunted talk of equality he felt debased by our attempts to ‘mechanize

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