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  • Dispelling the Fiction of “Book Bans”

    Dispelling the Fiction of “Book Bans”2

    “What we’re seeing here is a resurgence of widespread censorship in America,” Nadine Farid Johnson recently told The Wall Street Journal. Johnson is the Washington director of PEN America and co-author of its report claiming to identify 2,532 books banned in public schools during the 2021-2022 school year. PEN America advocates on behalf of poets, essayists,

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  • Whatever Happened to the American Way?

    Whatever Happened to the American Way?1

    Superman’s mantra goes, “Truth, justice, and …” what? The phrase that fills this blank used to be universally agreed upon. It was, after all, introduced in the classic Superman radio serial only two years after the character’s 1938 debut. The 1940s mantra certainly fit its time: With America in the thick of World War II

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  • Meet the World Economic Forum’s Media Censorship Op

    Meet the World Economic Forum’s Media Censorship Op1

    Sales of Bud Light beer tanked by 21.4 percent in the fallout of the Dylan Mulvaney saga. Apparently frat boys don’t particularly relate to a creepy man prancing about in pink teenage girl costumes. While big brand Anheuser-Busch has claimed their Bud Light blunder was a one-off, cultural commentator Michael Knowles has uncovered striking evidence to the contrary.

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  • Friday Comic: Hat Hair0

    “Friday Comic: Hat Hair.” Credit: OwenComics (store). Twitter: @owenbroadcast. Instagram: @owenbroadcast. ITO Save this article to favorites

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  • Stylish Sins: Transgenderism and the Contemporary Church

    Stylish Sins: Transgenderism and the Contemporary Church8

    “The church’s response to those who identify as transgender,” Andrew T. Walker writes, “must be, immediately and with integrity, ‘You are welcome here. You are loved here.’” This position reflects the broad inclinations of contemporary evangelicals, who generally seek to intentionally love and welcome those in the transgender movement. Though scripturally grounded churches may disagree with much

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  • How the Media Became the Pentagon’s Plumbers

    How the Media Became the Pentagon’s Plumbers1

    Last month New York Times international correspondent David Philipps offered a mea culpa. “I just deleted a tweet that lacked nuance,” the two-time Pulitzer Prize winner wrote. Philipps, who in 2022 received the top award in journalism for his reporting on previously undisclosed US military strikes that killed thousands of civilians in Iraq, Syria, and Afghanistan, was

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  • Against Determinism

    Against Determinism7

    In Adieux: A Farewell to Sartre, Simone de Beauvoir published a long discussion she had with her companion—the world-renowned, radical-left philosopher Jean-Paul Sartre—in the last years of his life. Though the two of them believed many things I find unpalatable, this phrase served me for some time as an email signature: Simone de Beauvoir: Broadly speaking,

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  • Why It’s Time to Treat Communist Symbols Like the Swastika

    Why It’s Time to Treat Communist Symbols Like the Swastika2

    If someone were to ask you to think of either extreme of the political spectrum, odds are you would immediately picture a swastika at one end, and a hammer and sickle at the other. Regardless of your views of the left-right paradigm, or whether you subscribe to horseshoe theory or not, we (rightfully) tend to

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  • Rediscovering Meaningful Skills with Ray Bradbury’s Gardener

    Rediscovering Meaningful Skills with Ray Bradbury’s Gardener2

    ‘Everyone must leave something behind when he dies, my grandfather said. A child or a book or a painting or a house or a wall built or a pair of shoes made. Or a garden planted. Something your hand touched some way so your soul has somewhere to go when you die, and when people

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