Every day, a new article about how terrible Millennials are pops up on my social media feeds. And every day, I roll my eyes and inwardly groan. Article after article claims to explain how college students are self-absorbed and overly sensitive, how recent college graduates can’t find jobs and are drowning in debt from student loans, how so many Millennials
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Undoubtedly, one of my best educational experiences was the graduate-level Latin course I took in Rome. Within six months, the teacher was able to clear up all confusion that had accumulated in my previous six years of Latin. How? Well, for one, the teacher was one of the best Latinists in the world: Fr.
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For thousands of years, the maxim “moderation in all things” was accepted as a given, and prudentially applied by men and women to their various activities. Today, apparently, some people feel more comfortable if science repeatedly confirms the truth of this maxim. Yesterday, the New York Times reported that scientific studies have shown
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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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