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  • How Craftsmanship Can Save the World

    How Craftsmanship Can Save the World0

    “Right before me, in full view and in all its perfection, was that work of beauty, no, that miracle, the Cologne Cathedral. More than its intricate ornamentation, it was its spiritual depth that struck me, its towers and spires striving up to the heavens. I gasped, and stared with my mouth open…” Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn’s description

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  • 13 Fact Checks on the State of the Union Address

    13 Fact Checks on the State of the Union Address0

    President Donald Trump spoke for about one hour and 20 minutes Tuesday night in his second State of the Union address, interrupted–by Fox News Channel’s count—102 times by applause.   Trump punctuated his speech by saluting the stories of Americans in the gallery: former prison inmates, World War II soldiers, a Holocaust survivor and a

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  • How ‘Woke’ Are You on World Poverty?

    How ‘Woke’ Are You on World Poverty?0

    By now you have probably heard the exhortation “stay woke.” To be woke means a person is “an informed, questioning, self-educating individual” who “look[s] past the provided narrative.” Yet, most among the self-proclaimed woke are still fast asleep. They may have a facile way of imparting narratives about issues, but those narratives are often based

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  • What Might Have Been: Russia’s Missed Opportunity of 1917

    What Might Have Been: Russia’s Missed Opportunity of 19170

    The Bolshevik uprising of October 1917 is usually thought to have resulted in the overthrow of the tsarist autocracy, which had ruled the Russian Empire since 1547. This belief has led to a certain idealization of the Russian Revolution. Despite the crimes that were later committed in the USSR in the name of communism, the

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  • Five Famous Shakespeare Quotes You’re Probably Taking Out of Context

    Five Famous Shakespeare Quotes You’re Probably Taking Out of Context0

    Shakespeare is often quoted in a way that makes him sound like his works were incredibly serious and philosophical. While it is true that Shakespeare interacts with deep and compelling themes, and some of his plays do have a very somber tone, it’s interesting to see how many of his oft-quoted lines actually appear in

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  • I’m the 0.0001%: My Confession

    I’m the 0.0001%: My Confession0

    Income inequality in the US celebrated its 50th birthday last year. Having declined steadily after World War II, 1968 began a 50-year winning streak. Few are cheering, though, because concentrations of wealth are dangerous. People controlling huge amounts of money can use their buying power to push us all around. Hence billionaires like Mark Zuckerberg,

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