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  • Even in Our Age of Ugly, Beauty Will Survive

    Even in Our Age of Ugly, Beauty Will Survive2

    “Beauty,” wrote philosopher Roger Scruton, “is vanishing from our world because we live as though it did not matter.” Whatever we may think of Scruton’s observation, it seems clear our ideas of beauty are at best confused, at worst degraded, and always subjective. “Beauty is in the eye of the beholder” is, of course, in

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  • Jacinda Ardern and Whether Women Can Really ‘Have It All’

    Jacinda Ardern and Whether Women Can Really ‘Have It All’5

    New Zealand Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern certainly hasn’t been on my list of favorite people for the last several years, largely due to her draconian COVID policies on masks, vaccines, and quarantines, and her “government knows best” attitude. But I finally had something to applaud her for the other day when she announced her resignation,

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  • Truth Is More Than Propositional

    Truth Is More Than Propositional3

    Navigating a world riddled with attacks on gender, goodness, and morality, I’m always encouraged by people who cling to truth. Still, even as we hold to rightly ordered propositions, we have to recognize exactly what truth encompasses because it has profound impacts on our systems of belief and how we communicate. What Is Truth? Many

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  • What is Writing? Why We Misunderstand the Coming of ChatGPT

    What is Writing? Why We Misunderstand the Coming of ChatGPT2

    Is high-school English dead? A Dec. 9 article published in The Atlantic by Daniel Herman, a high-school English teacher, says yes. Herman asserts that the new AI chat program ChatGPT drastically changes the nature of education, especially the teaching of writing. The software can respond to prompts of almost any kind—even very complicated ones—in a

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  • Phoebe Liou, Informed Choice Champion

    Phoebe Liou, Informed Choice Champion4

    Phoebe Liou is a somewhat unlikely champion of informed choice for COVID-19 mandates. She’s 19, soft spoken, and has a brilliant mind that helped her be admitted to the University of Connecticut (UConn) at 16. But after winning multiple academic scholarships to her dream school, the tyranny of arbitrary and unnecessary COVID-19 mandates soon began

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  • How Cultivating An Internal Locus of Control Can Help You Succeed

    How Cultivating An Internal Locus of Control Can Help You Succeed1

    In the United States today, it’s fashionable to see ourselves as victims. Commentators on the far left will tell you that skin color traps people in poverty and that people cannot determine their own fate. Commentators on the far right will tell you that immigrants are stealing jobs and that there’s nothing we can do

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  • Friday Comic: It’s All Greek to Us0

    “It’s All Greek to Us.” Credit: OwenComics (store). Twitter: @owenbroadcast. Instagram @owenbroadcast. ITO Save this article to favorites

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  • Is All Change Progress? Progressives Think So.

    Is All Change Progress? Progressives Think So.9

    There seems to be a pervasive sentiment in society today that paints progress as an intellectual process which perpetually increases human fulfillment, success, and joy. All change is progress, and all progress is good, so goes the idea. This idea provides the basis for progressivism and encourages development, new ideas, and a rejection of tradition

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  • To Love the Truth

    To Love the Truth0

    Renowned radio Bible teacher Chuck Swindoll tells a story about a 6-year-old boy riding with his mother on a train. During those days, kids traveled with their parents and weren’t charged if the child was 5 or under. Before getting on board, a mother instructed her son to tell the conductor he was 5. Later,

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