Not long ago, a certain meme multiplied across social media platforms involving clips of women asking the men in their lives how often they thought about the Roman Empire. The women in these clips were surprised and bemused when the men replied that they thought about the Roman empire frequently, sometimes multiple times daily. I found the
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It’s never easy to admit when you’re wrong – especially when it means standing up to your own people. In the opening scenes of “Truth & Treason,” we see a young Helmuth Hübener craft his “patriotic statement.” It’s 1941, in Hamburg, Germany, and Hübener’s statement is the 16-year-old’s final task to obtain an internship at
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This past month has made me aware that the anti-Zionism and the anti-Semitic bigotry that have infected our news media and college campuses have trickled down into my own community. In one conversation, for instance, a good friend and fellow Catholic almost 50 years younger than I, stunned me with revelations about some of her
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Two years ago, my wedding day went south when a young child pulled the fire alarm a couple hours into the reception, forcing everyone to evacuate as we waited for the fire station to turn it off. It was raining. My dress was soaked, my hair was ruined, and for a minute I thought my
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One of the most popular New Year’s resolutions—alongside “Lose weight” and “Improve relationships”—is “Read more.” Most people feel a moral burden to get through as many books as possible in a year. It’s drilled into us from a very early age that reading is associated with success in life, and successful people reinforce this idea
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The other day, an amusing image showed up on social media featuring CBS television personality Gayle King sitting on an airplane next to Fox News television personality Jesse Watters. King posted the selfie on her Instagram page, reveling in the ironic, chance encounter with a rival journalist. Despite being on opposite sides of the political aisle, the
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