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Building America’s Tower of Babel 1
- Culture
- February 17, 2021
In C.S. Lewis’s novel about totalitarianism, That Hideous Strength, we find this line, “Qui verbum Dei contempserunt, eis auferetur etiam verbum hominis,” which translates, “They that have despised the word of God, from them shall the word of man also be taken away.” This line occurs in a passage during which an elite who dreamed
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Will the Radical Left Reunite the GOP?0
- Politics
- February 16, 2021
“Our historic, patriotic and beautiful movement to Make America Great Again has only just begun.” So said Citizen Trump Saturday on his acquittal by the Senate of the impeachment article of “incitement of insurrection” in the Jan. 6 invasion of the Capitol. “I look forward to continuing our incredible journey together
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Pregnant Women: Beware of COVID Shots 0
- Family
- February 16, 2021
Twenty years ago, when I was pregnant with my first child, I transformed into a total health nut. A lifelong couch potato, I started exercising, enrolled in Lamaze classes and even took vitamins for the first time. I halted my consumption of caffeine, Doritos, Spam, and sushi. After decades of obliviousness to food labels, I
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The Boundary Line Between Class Cultures 0
- Literature
- February 16, 2021
From the vantage point of a neighborhood in a midsized Midwestern city where I grew up, I witnessed a curious sociological phenomenon. On the south side of my house was a street filled with decay and depravity: broken-down dwellings, yards littered with auto carcasses, drunken men sitting on porches leering at teen girls and cursing at
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Dimming the IQ of America 0
- Culture
- February 16, 2021
Americans and Europeans are getting dumber. At least that’s the conclusion David Solway reaches in his piece “The Decline of Intelligence in the West.” In the last century various studies have shown the average IQ in Western countries dropping by about 14 percent, Solway reports. He points readers to these investigations and offers a score
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Teaching About Riots and Democracy 0
- Culture
- February 15, 2021
[The setting: a classroom on a liberal arts campus somewhere in the American northeast. A young, very enlightened professor addresses students in her course “Getting Woke, Bashing the Fash: Intro to Critical Studies” following a screening of the 13-minute video of the Jan. 6 Capitol riot shown at the opening of the latest impeachment trial
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