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Environmentalism and the Immoral Low Ground0
Last month, the Biden administration’s Environmental Protection Agency proposed new power plant regulations that would put harsh limits on the amount of carbon dioxide released while producing electricity. This comes from the same administration pushing to electrify all parts of daily life, from driving to cooking. As if slamming the power grid with artificial demand is not enough, now the
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Thoughts to Words: A Case for Journaling0
- Literature
- June 7, 2023
When I turned 13, my parents gave me a blue-flowered notebook as a birthday present. With that notebook as a catalyst, I began recording my thoughts, wishes, and experiences. My topics were erratic and impulsive: I’d write about everyday experiences, abstract musings, and my impetuous future plans. At the time, I wasn’t sure that anything
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DeSantis Reminds Public Universities of an Uncomfortable Truth0
“He who pays the piper calls the tune” is a familiar proverb. Wiktionary tells us it means that “The person paying for something is the one who gets to say how it should be done.” It’s difficult if not impossible to argue against its wisdom. What’s the alternative? I suppose it would be something like,
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That Way Madness Lies: Transgenderism and Linguistics0
- Culture
- June 6, 2023
“The ordinary acceptation of words in their relation to things was changed as men thought fit,” Thucydides records in his History of the Peloponnesian War. Those lines, written some 2,400 years ago, carry remarkable relevance for today as we witness contemporary society commit the same error of the Corcyreans that Thucydides commented on. And it’s a
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Singing: Our Battle Cry of Truth and Hope0
By now you may have seen the video of a children’s choir singing the national anthem in the U.S. Capitol rotunda. The children are seemingly well-trained, and their training is made ever more beautiful by the acoustics of their surroundings. What’s unique about this video, however, is not their singing, but the fact that the
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‘Hollywood Also Signed Up’: 80 Years of World War II in Cinema0
- Entertainment
- June 5, 2023
No event in human history has fascinated filmmakers so much as the Second World War. One estimate suggests that as of 2014, there have been over 1,300 movies made about World War II, and that number has only grown since then, with two more entries arriving in theaters this year: Sisu, the brutal story of
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‘Be Fruitful and Multiply’ Isn’t Just Christian Teaching. It’s How Civilizations Survive.0
Demography nerds assiduously follow the data popping up about fast-ageing societies, their loss of dynamism and prospects of population collapse. With each successive generation significantly smaller than the last, we know where we’re headed. While population collapse is an environmentalist’s dream, it is an unfolding nightmare for humanity at large. The world’s economic engine, the
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Et tu, Chick-fil-A? The Danger of Adopting the Default Ideology0
- Culture
- June 2, 2023
In the Christian circles I hang out in, Chick-fil-A is a bit of an icon. Whether it’s grabbing a bite to eat or even working there, Chick-fil-A is wound into the social fabric. Known for being closed on Sundays and the founder’s strong Christian faith—not to mention the popularity of its food, clean restaurants, and
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Why Hamlet Disappeared From the Stage in the Soviet Union0
William Shakespeare’s play Hamlet is considered by some to be the single greatest story ever written. Hamlet has it all: ghosts, sword fights, suicide, revenge, lust, murder, philosophy, faith, manipulation, and a climactic bloodbath worthy of a Tarantino film. It’s a masterpiece of both high art and sensationalism, the only play I’ve seen performed live three times. Not
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