Saints are heroes, but heroes are rarely saints. When nuance was still a word in the American vocabulary, we understood that a hero came with warts. Take Robert E. Lee, for instance. Dwight Eisenhower pronounced Lee “one of the supremely gifted men produced by our Nation” and kept his portrait in the White House. Franklin Roosevelt described Lee as
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The right is living in a pivotal time. “Republican” has become an empty word for millennials and Gen Z, and the majority voting bloc looks not to Fox News but to the internet for their daily dose of opinions. The nature of news itself seems drastically different today than it was several decades ago. Politics
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Journalist Rebecca Reid recently responded to the news that homesteading influencer Hannah Neeleman was expecting her ninth child with the following comment: You cannot give nine children adequate time, attention and connection. You are, unquestionably, with nine children, spending less time with your children than a working parent with two kids. Reid’s response reminded me of a
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Old age has made me more aware that many national and international events play out more as farce than tragedy, with the comedy heavily dependent on irony for its laughs. The same folks who want to control the climate zip about the world in private jets. The elected representatives invested with “the power of the
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There’s a persistent pressure in the air – felt in every news headline, on every social media platform. A war breaks out. A celebrity says something provocative. A politician signs a bill. And almost immediately, we’re asked: What’s your opinion? We’ve conflated access to information with mandatory commentary. Because we can see everything in real
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The influential professor and educator John Senior proposed a bottom-up approach to cultural transformation. “Restorations never start in the collapsing tops but always in the dull low places of simple hearts,” he argued in “The Restoration of Christian Culture.” In his biography of Senior, Fr. Francis Bethel added, “Rebuilding culture calls for quiet and hidden work
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