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  • The Dehumanizing Horror of Facebook Tag Groups

    The Dehumanizing Horror of Facebook Tag Groups1

    When I was in high school, I had a classmate who obsessively sorted everyone in the school into made-up categories. It seemed like every week, he would invent new sets of criteria by which to group us. For reasons I couldn’t fully explain, I hated it. It was only years later, when employers started asking

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  • Saving the Real American Dream in 2020

    Saving the Real American Dream in 20200

    In Mark Helprin’s humorous and insightful novel Freddy and Fredericka, Freddy, the bumbling Prince of Wales and heir to the throne, and his spoiled wife Fredericka, are dispatched on a special mission: to conquer the United States of America. Wearing “modesty panels of golden rabbits’ fur,” they parachute into New Jersey at night and set off

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  • New Hampshire Is Fighting Back to Defend the Electoral College

    New Hampshire Is Fighting Back to Defend the Electoral College0

    New Hampshire legislators have introduced an election bill that would be completely unacceptable under normal circumstances. But these are not normal times. Constitutional institutions, especially the Electoral College, are under attack. Extraordinary action may be needed. Thus, some New Hampshire legislators have proposed to withhold popular vote totals at the conclusion of a presidential election. The numbers

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  • Could the Bible Return to American Public Education?

    Could the Bible Return to American Public Education?0

    As the 2020 election approaches in the United States, President Donald Trump is adding school prayer to the list of contentious issues up for debate. At a rally in early January he announced plans to “safeguard students’ and teachers’ First Amendment rights to pray in our schools.” On the schedule of the White House later

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  • ‘Jack Ryan’ Gets Four Pinocchios on Venezuela

    ‘Jack Ryan’ Gets Four Pinocchios on Venezuela0

    Despite Venezuela’s track record of seizing the means of production of a multitude of industries?, there are still those who have trouble calling Venezuela a socialist state. The denials are getting more creative. The most recent comes in Jack Ryan, Amazon Prime’s hit show starring John Krasinski as the protagonist from Tom Clancy’s best-selling books.

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  • Treasures in the Trash: Signs of Our Abundant Life

    Treasures in the Trash: Signs of Our Abundant Life0

    Here I am visiting with my son, his wife, and their children in Asheville, North Carolina. This morning I was outside enjoying the dawn and the crowing of the roosters when I looked with new eyes at the yellow recycling bins at the edge of their driveway. Soon I was rooting through that bin, pulling

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