On this Martin Luther King Jr. Day, it becomes necessary to again remind us all of the distinction between equal rights, deserved by all, and equal results, deserve by none. Unfortunately, King also failed to make the distinction. In 1968, King said: At the very same time that America refused to give the Negro any
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I always knew I would be leaving academia one day, but I never expected that the parting blow would be delivered by way of medical tyranny. After 18 years of helping college students learn how to write and think by showing them why and where they should seek truth and beauty and goodness, I lost
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In “Remembering the Right,” the second volume of collected articles from Chronicles Magazine on the lives and work of notable conservative teachers, writers, and philosophers, we find a piece about G.K. Chesterton. Reading about this man of letters—you name the genre, and Chesterton probably wrote at least one book that
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I’m not mad that some venture capital mogul (whom I’d never heard of before) said this week on a podcast (which I’d also never heard of before) that “nobody cares about what’s happening to the Uyghurs.” I am, however, mildly (but not surprisingly) annoyed that this blundering billionaire backed down so quickly in the face
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Assuming too much in politics can lead to disappointing results and gut-wrenching betrayals. Nowhere is this more clear than with the Second Amendment. Many inexperienced activists who get involved in Second Amendment causes and other wedge issues—from abortion to immigration—learn this the hard way when they automatically assume Republicans are on their side. This assumption
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“Bad boys, bad boys, whatcha gonna do? Whatcha gonna, whatcha gonna do when they come for you?” That song and those words used to open the show Cops along with scenes of the police chasing down and arresting the “bad boys.” Viewers assume those apprehended would be spending some time in the slammer. Today? Not so
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