A fascinating article in The New York Times reporting on attempts to assimilate Muslim immigrants explodes the idea of multiculturalism and unwittingly reveals the hypocrisy of the modern, liberal society. Tolerance and acceptance, equality, moral relativism, these have become the trademarks of much of the West’s modern culture. Yet, while many do want tolerance and
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Writing about Charles Dicken’s Barnaby Rudge: A Tale of the Riots of Eighty, Myron Magnet digs into one of the deeper impulses that animates man: The desire to be God. Magnet uses the term “revolutionary millennialism” to describe what happens when that individual desire is found on a mass scale. The term itself is actually
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There’s a popular quote attributed to the author G.K. Chesterton that’s been floating around the social media world that seems quite applicable for not only Christmas, but the entire year. “There are two ways to get enough. One is to continue to accumulate more and more. The other is to desire less.” Unfortunately, when you
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1. “Education is a progressive discovery of our own ignorance.” 2. “The only real revolution is in the enlightenment of the mind and the improvement of character, the only real emancipation is individual, and the only real revolutionaries are philosophers and saints.” 3. “It is a mistake to think that the
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Today is the winter solstice, and though it’s the day with the least amount of daylight, it happens to be one of the most visible days for modern pagans. The term “pagan” is increasingly self-applied by those today who are seeking to revive ancient nature worship and its rituals. However, modern pagans may
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Instead of immediately pursuing college when I graduated from high school, I took several years off and focused on other things, one of which was operating my own business. Yet when I sought to apply that business experience in another job, I found that I could only receive minimum wage because of my lack of
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