It became fashionable in the 18thcentury and through part of the Victorian Era for the well-to-do to visit the rudimentary insane asylums of that time. They would pay a fee to enter these institutions—London’s Bethlehem Hospital, eventually known as “Bedlam,” charged a shilling for these tours—to sneer and jest at the antics of the inmates.
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It’s hard to know what’s real and what’s fake on the internet these days. So when I stumbled on a Twitter post that claimed automobile drivers in Slovenia were forbidden from pumping gas without a COVID certificate, I was skeptical. All the tweets I found were screenshots of a single story published by TV N1
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In judging the actions of Kyle Rittenhouse, set aside for the moment Wisconsin law under which he is being tried, and consider the natural law, the moral law, the higher law written on the human heart. In terms of values demonstrated and the deeds done that night that Rittenhouse shot the three men who attacked
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A young friend of mine is in his last year of high school and asking the age-old “what do I do with my life” question. Most average high school seniors would be settling on their final liberal arts college choice right now—more concerned about the climbing wall in the student center and the cafeteria entrees
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Researchers at Harvard University just released findings from their new study showing positive outcomes for homeschooled students. Writing in The Wall Street Journal last week, Brendan Case and Ying Chen of the Harvard Human Flourishing Program concluded that public school students “were less forgiving and less apt to volunteer or attend religious services than their
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“Let’s go, Brandon!” By now, most readers know the meaning hidden in those three words. If you don’t, Google them or ask an acquaintance. I’m trying to avoid the F-bomb here. Throughout the fall, football stadiums across the country have reverberated with that chant and
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