C.S. Lewis was famous for taking ordinary topics, injecting them with an unexpected twist of thought, and presenting them in a fanciful way for his readers. His thoughts on Christmas are no exception. In 1954, Lewis sat down to write an essay entitled Xmas and Christmas: A Lost Chapter from Herodotus. The essay described the
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Colin Kaepernick had a tough day in Chicago on Sunday. His week is not getting any better. On Wednesday, at a ceremony in Hawaii to commemorate the 75th anniversary of the attack on Pearl Harbor, the San Francisco 49ers quarterback found his conduct in the crosshairs of U.S. Pacific Command Commander Adm. Harry Harris. “You
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Today’s the day. The day you get serious about your work, your studies, your finances, your health, your life. Commence adulting. You start strong, like you always do. You set up your to do list. You make headway on a project. But then, insensibly, as the day wears on, you start slipping. By the next
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December 7th marks the anniversary of the bombing of Pearl Harbor. Naturally, headlines are full of remembrances of the dead and honors for the living. But in reading through headlines, one concern in particular keeps resurfacing. That concern is that the younger generation does not know, nor does it care about, what went on during
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An internal study at the Department of Defense identified $125 billion in wasteful spending, the Washington Post reports. But government officials buried the report out of fear lawmakers would make defense cuts in the ensuing budget. Via Bob Woodward and Craig Whitlock at the Post: Pentagon leaders had requested the study to help make their
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In the past week a clip of director Bernardo Bertolucci speaking about a scene in the 1972 film The Last Tango in Paris set off a firestorm of controversy on Twitter. The film tells the story of a recently widowed American man’s sordid sexual affair with a French woman. In the particular scene, the character
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