In his observations about 19th-century America, Alexis de Tocqueville pointed to religion as the first of the country’s political institutions – sweeping in its influence on our customs and powerful in its propensity to preempt and prevent tyranny. Yet today, American religiosity is in decline. Weekly church attendance is trending downward, as is self-identification with
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“‘Autonomous zone’ has armed guards, local businesses being threatened with extortion.“ That was quite a striking headline to behold. My immediate reaction was, “Oh my gosh, the Paris Commune is back!” Except that it wasn’t Paris, and it wasn’t 1871. It was Seattle, Washington, USA – today. According to multiple reports, radical protesters seized a six-block area
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“Those whom the gods would destroy they first make mad.” That warning comes to us as an ancient Greek proverb. You remember the ancient Greeks, right? Those guys we once considered some of the founding fathers of Western civilization before our academic institutions tossed them and all the other dead white men out the door?
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A number of statues have recently been destroyed or vandalized to protest racism and slavery. I thought that it might be good to think big and work towards eliminating the biggest monument of all, the Colosseum. I’ve created a petition at change.org. If you agree, please sign it. Below is the text. Memorializing genocidal monsters,
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“Maybe we’ll wake up and this will all be a bad dream.” I think that’s the sentiment of many these days. Our world seemingly changed overnight and many of us just long to go back to the piddly struggle of getting up every day to drive to work. The trouble is, it’s unlikely we’re going
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As the weather has warmed in my Midwestern town, my neighborhood is full of children on bicycles pretending to be riding through the Wild West. I can’t walk down the sidewalk without stepping on chalk drawings or hopscotch boards. There are children jumping rope and playing ball. In the eight years I’ve lived here, I’ve
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