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Samurai Who Weren’t Japanese 0
- History
- March 12, 2024
Many Americans owe their knowledge of Japanese samurai to filmmakers. Renowned for their discipline and courage, the samurai were the military nobility from the 12th century until the abolition of their class by Emperor Meiji in the 1870s. The armored, sword-wielding warriors figured prominently in James Clavell’s 1975 best-selling novel, Shōgun, and its adaptation into a blockbuster TV
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Dealing with Teens and Spouses: Some Guidelines Compliments of the Federal Government 0
- Entertainment, Family, Featured, Politics
- March 11, 2024
By extracting some of the expressions buried in the blather employed by politicians and bureaucrats, America’s parents, husbands, and wives can find new and more effective ways to manage conversations with a teen or spouse. These gifts of gab should come as no surprise. After all, given the many failures of the federal government—the crisis
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The Lost Art of Pen and Paper 2
- Culture, MomThink
- March 11, 2024
I remember the joyful, parental excitement I felt when we sent our oldest child off to kindergarten. I can recall his nervous agitation, not knowing what to expect, but also understanding that he was older now, and a big boy. At our first parent-teacher conference that year I noticed something that I had not thought much
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‘The Great Divorce’: What C.S. Lewis Would Say About Modern ‘Love’4
- Culture, Featured, Literature, Philosophy
- March 8, 2024
The plot of C.S. Lewis’ The Great Divorce is straightforward. The narrator, who strongly resembles Lewis, boards a bus along with some others traveling from Hell to Heaven. Once they’ve arrived at their destination, the quarrelsome passengers disembark, become Ghosts, and find themselves scarcely able to bear the reality of their physical environment—even the unbending
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Why Solzhenitsyn’s Line Between Good and Evil Matters 5
- Philosophy
- March 8, 2024
We want to think that the line between good and evil is clear and that individuals fall into one camp or another. In The Gulag Archipelago, Volume 1, Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn wrote, “If only it were all so simple! If only there were evil people somewhere insidiously committing evil deeds, and it were necessary only to separate
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Friday Comic: Dark Night of the Soul 0
- Entertainment
- March 8, 2024
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