Many years ago, my wife and I decided to unplug ourselves from the prurience and propaganda piped into our homes via the television. It was one of the best decisions we ever made—and one of the most liberating. It freed us from hours of passive servitude to the soporific drip-feed of mind-numbing nonsense that passes
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At the peak of World War II, when Adolf Hitler’s war machine still seemed destined to create his dream of a Third Reich, hundreds of thousands of Europeans found themselves without safe haven. It was April 1941. Hitler and Stalin had already divvied up Poland, and the Germans had swallowed most of Western Europe. On
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Things are clearly getting heated in politics with the arrival of Donald Trump. Since the Chicago, anti-Trump protests broke out in violence, the subsequent anti-Trump protests seem to be escalating in violence whether in New Mexico, San Diego, or San Jose. The most recent videos are filled with physical assaults against pro-Trump individuals, destruction of
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Today the film Me Before You, based on a 2012 novel of the same title, opens in theaters throughout the U.S. and Britain. It centers on a talented man, Will Traynor, whom a motorcycle accident made quadriplegic; he no longer finds life worth living and commits suicide calmly, with a bit of help, after much
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The petition starts out polite enough. “We, undergraduate students in the Yale English Department, write to urge the faculty to reevaluate the undergraduate curriculum.” Then it gets a little chippy. We oppose the continued existence of the Major English Poets sequence as the primary prerequisite for further study. It is unacceptable that a Yale student
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Russell Kirk argued that to engage in politics and ideas we must “draw the sword of imagination”. By that he meant, we must imagine all the ways in which a policy or an idea may do either good or harm. Recently, Facebook, Twitter, and other social media giants announced that they will be working with
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