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Scratches, Warps, and the Art of Owning Art0
- Culture, Featured, Western Civilization
- May 13, 2026
My new (to me) car is a 2014 commuter. Nothing about it is glamorous. A co-worker has affectionately referred to the paint color as casket blue, if that tells you anything. But my car has a built-in CD player, and I consider that dated feature worth commenting on. The plan is simple. Seek out well-loved CDs
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If Americans Are So Accepting, Why Do Many of Us Now View Each Other as Morally Bankrupt?0
- Culture, Featured, Politics, Western Civilization
- May 13, 2026
Most Americans have a “live-and-let-live” attitude toward morality. “Does it hurt anyone else?” Americans ask. If the answer is no, then the action is morally acceptable. We see this moral code play out in many current U.S. cultural debates: sexuality, abortion, marijuana. “My body, my choice,” people say, or “love is love,” both statements which
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Why I Bought a Mower From My Neighbor Rather Than Home Depot0
Clickclickclickclick. The mower wouldn’t start. Normally, a muttered prayer and a few more turns of the key would get the old beast rumbling, but not this time. A new battery didn’t solve the problem, either. It was really and truly dead. With my yard approaching jungle-like conditions, I had no choice but to buy a
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Asking Hard Questions Can Heal Hurt Hearts0
Have you ever gone through some of life’s challenges and felt like you were alone in them? Sure, people knew that you experienced a breakup, or that you had a miscarriage, or that you were losing a close family member to cancer, or even that you were weathering financial difficulties. Yet when you came to
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Making Sense of the World Means Looking Toward the Stars0
Easter this year delivered some good news – or more accurately, some Good News. On Easter Monday, April 6, as the Artemis II spacecraft crew prepared to lose communication with NASA’s mission control while passing behind the moon, astronaut Victor Glover delivered this message back to earth: As we get close to the nearest point to the
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There’s a Solution to the Two-Income Trap, but Not Everyone Likes It1
Working moms are a hot topic right now, as the debate over the tradwife vs. the girl boss intensifies. But what is a tradwife? Is she necessarily a stay-at-home mom? And can she pull in an income too? Indeed, is it an outright requirement that she pulls her weight financially? So much has and should
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America Needs Elites … But Not the Kind That We Think0
“I am obliged to confess I should sooner live in a society governed by the first two thousand names in the Boston telephone directory than in a society governed by the two thousand faculty members of Harvard University,” William F. Buckley Jr. once quipped. It was likely a fair judgment when he said it, and if
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Why We Can Talk About God at All0
- Culture, Featured, Philosophy, Religion
- April 15, 2026
The questions of God’s existence, nature, and will have captivated humanity from the beginning. Yet if God transcends all of creation, as Christians and classical theists claim, then how can we even say or discuss anything about God that makes any sense? This problem has led philosophers to ask about the nature of language itself.
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Why Reinstating Cursive Is a Profoundly Progressive Idea0
I’ve spent many happy hours volunteering in a program for inner-city children in Minneapolis since I was a teen. One of my tasks over the years has been helping these children with writing. There we sit, side by side, with me writing outlines and sentences, while they earnestly race to copy my example. Some get
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