Several years ago, my grandmother received a note from one of my young cousins which made her cry. If I recall correctly, the tears were of delight rather than sadness, for the note graciously thanked her for a trifle which many would have normally overlooked. Unfortunately, receiving a handwritten thank-you note seems to be increasingly
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Sun-tzu’s Art of War is a highly influential text from the 5th century B.C. Its lessons have been applied in both the East and West not only to war, but also to business, politics, law, sports, and even life. After all, as Plato reminds us in the Gorgias, life is the “great combat… greater than
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In The European, German Adorjan Kovacs makes the argument that based on demographics, the primarily Muslim migrants from the Middle East and North African will actually become the dominant population group within a generation. The Google translate of the article is a little bit rough, but his key point is that while there are 80
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Judging from the USDA food guidelines released this morning from our ever-wise government, it’s once again permissible to increase our salt intake, eat eggs, and skip breakfast if we so wish. Don’t agree with those guidelines? Never fear. We probably only have to wait for a few years until they revert to their original
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Not every deep, loving relationship between people of the same sex is “gay.” Last week, in an essay for The Federalist, D.C. McAllister offered this valuable and timely reminder to a society that has largely forgotten what true friendship looks like. Drawing heavily on C.S. Lewis’ The Four Loves, McAllister references the traditional Greek distinction between
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Both British and American authors have produced a number of children’s bestsellers. But, as Colleen Gillard argues in The Atlantic, the British may have an edge when it comes to children’s literature. Why? According to Gillard, it’s because they tend to produce more books in the fantasy genre: “The small island of Great Britain is
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