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  • Did Stanford Students Just Reject Western Civilization?

    Did Stanford Students Just Reject Western Civilization?0

    Did Stanford students just reject Western civilization? According to the headline of a Daily Caller story a few weeks ago, they did. Given what actually happened, that seems grossly exaggerated. But not by as much as some might think. A few months ago, the conservative campus paper The Stanford Review proposed instituting, as part of

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  • Psychologist: ‘Authoritative Parenting’ is Best for Children

    Psychologist: ‘Authoritative Parenting’ is Best for Children0

    Several months ago, Dr. Leonard Sax made headlines when he proposed that the lack of discipline we see in America today is simply the surface symptom of a greater problem: the decline of parental authority. Dr. Sax’s theories were recently underscored by psychologist Lisa Damour in a New York Times piece on the benefits of

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  • The Virtues of Book Ownership

    The Virtues of Book Ownership0

    “Can you spare a dollar so I can buy this book?” I heard a man’s deep voice ask this question as I raced up a flight of stairs, speeding my way to the second floor of the local public library to drop off some overdue books. His voice was coming from the library’s “sale room”

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  • Huxley in Letter to Orwell: My Book Was Right

    Huxley in Letter to Orwell: My Book Was Right0

    Aldous Huxley and George Orwell wrote arguably the two most popular novels portending the West’s dystopian future.  For decades, thinkers have opined on which of the two starkly distinct totalitarian nightmares–that of Huxley’s Brave New World or Orwell’s 1984–was more likely to come to pass (or, as some contend, had come to pass).  What has garnered rather little

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  • The Limitations of ‘Right’ and ‘Left’

    The Limitations of ‘Right’ and ‘Left’0

    “What is it you object to?” asked Syme. “You want to abolish Government?” “To abolish God!” said Gregory, opening the eyes of a fanatic. “The silly sentimentalists of the French Revolution talked of the Rights of Man! We hate Rights and we hate Wrongs. We have abolished Right and Wrong.” “And Right and Left,” said

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  • The Weakness of ‘Consent’ as a Moral Framework

    The Weakness of ‘Consent’ as a Moral Framework0

    After rejecting the Christian moral framework that largely guided us for 1,500+ years, the post-modern West settled upon moral relativism in the mid- to late-20th century as the replacement. Now fifty years or more into the experiment, we’re seeing that it doesn’t work as well as we’d hoped. The logic of a relativistic society dictates

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