For so many months, it’s been nonstop bad news on business closures, arts trashed, museum shuttering, unemployment, missed surgeries and diagnostics, plus rising loneliness, drug overdoses, depression, and suicide. Every day has been as dark or darker than the previous one. And yet here we are with a political class, all over the world, refusing
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In 2018, Rod Dreher published The Benedict Option: A Strategy for Christians Living in a Post-Christian World. In it, he argued that Christians needed to recognize that this is a post-Christian society, and that they should withdraw as much as possible from it and build up private Christian communities. His inspiration for this concept is
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Results of a new Gallup poll released this week may give us the sharpest look yet at how the COVID-19 pandemic has disrupted American education and what may lie ahead. According to the poll, parents’ overall satisfaction with their child’s education dropped 10 percent over last year, while at the same time the number of
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In Lost In The Cosmos: The Last Self-Help Book, Walker Percy raises a number of philosophical questions regarding the self and why we know so little about ourselves. He also invites readers to participate in a number of “Thought Experiments.” In a chapter on “Why the Self is the only Object in the Cosmos which Gets Bored,”
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Another night, another round of riots. They’ve now come full circle, as rioters hit up Minneapolis for the second time since George Floyd’s death. The rationale of the rioters? Rumors that police shot a black man. The truth that soon emerged, however, was that the man killed himself as police closed in due to his
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A rioting revival is occurring in the wake of Jacob Blake’s shooting in Kenosha. Despite Blake’s mother offering a very calm, reasoned plea to stop the riots – those in her son’s name and any others – violence increases against both people and property. After weeks of promoting “peaceful protests,” it seems like major media
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