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A 5th Century Guide to Happiness in a World Full of Pain, Loss, and Injustice 2
- Philosophy, History, Western Civilization
- October 3, 2022
My mother passed away in August four days short of her 70th birthday. When we lose something we love, it’s easy to feel bitter, resentful, cheated. It’s easy to feel that life is cruel, systematically robbing us of everything good until we are left with nothing. And while these feelings are understandable—forgivable even—they miss far
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What Is ‘Culture War’?9
- Culture, Philosophy, Western Civilization
- September 30, 2022
Day by day, year by year, what once was unthinkable has now become celebrated, and even protected by law. Meanwhile, what was once virtuous or admired is seen as hateful and backwards. The older you are, the more you see it. In the recent past, America and Europe were grounded in a Christian ethos, one
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Will the Conservative Momentum at the Supreme Court Continue This Term?2
- Politics, Uncategorized
- September 30, 2022
The U.S. Supreme Court begins hearing cases for its new term, following its customary summer recess, on Monday, Oct. 3. If this Court term is anything like the most recent one, conservatives and constitutionalists will rejoice. This most recent term, conservatives achieved secured massive wins on abortion (Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization), gun rights
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Is ‘Our Democracy’ Failing Our Country?3
- History, International, Politics
- September 30, 2022
Asked, “What is an American?” many would answer, “An American is a citizen of the United States.” Yet, at the First Continental Congress in 1774, 15 years before the U.S. became a nation of 13 states, Patrick Henry rose to proclaim that, “British oppression has effaced the boundaries of the several colonies; the distinctions between
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Con Games and Propaganda in the ‘Information Age’5
- Politics, Uncategorized
- September 29, 2022
For the average individual, life today is lived in a gulf between statistical reality and the never-never land of conjecture. Just how wide is this gulf of discrepancies? Theodore Roosevelt Malloch answers that question in an article for American Greatness, citing a recent YouGov poll that asked Americans to estimate the numbers in various subgroups
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Who Decides What Children Read?3
- Family, Culture, Education, Politics
- September 29, 2022
In a country that protects and praises personal liberty, few charges are more loaded than to call people censors or “book banners.” Those are fighting words. Unfortunately, the American Library Association and PEN America, an advocacy group for literary authors, are casually hurling that accusation against school leaders and parent organizations across the country without any concern for whether the charges
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