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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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  • Did Religion Protect Americans From Deaths of Despair?

    Did Religion Protect Americans From Deaths of Despair?1

    The generation of millennials, which includes most Americans under 40, is the first one in which Christians are a minority. By the year 2070 as few as one-third of all Americans could be Christians according Pew Research Center projections. “Nones” – people without an allegiance to a religious faith, could be as many as 52 percent.

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  • WaPo Admits: Russian Twitter Trolls Didn’t Influence 2016 Election

    WaPo Admits: Russian Twitter Trolls Didn’t Influence 2016 Election1

    Those of us who voted for Trump the first time around were surprised to learn after the fact that it was not us, but instead Russian trolls, who catapulted the real estate magnate into the White House. We were told that Russian trolls “hacked” the election—and that Trump was complicit. This was, of course, a

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  • God’ll Cut You Down: Johnny Cash, Cato, and Triumphant Good

    God’ll Cut You Down: Johnny Cash, Cato, and Triumphant Good2

    In Johnny Cash’s version of the gospel song “God’s Gonna Cut You Down,” the opening chorus goes this way: “You can run on for a long time Run on for a long time Run on for a long time Sooner or later, God’ll cut you down Sooner or later, God’ll cut you down” Not a

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  • Has Capitalism Created a Wasteful Excess of Managers?

    Has Capitalism Created a Wasteful Excess of Managers?1

    Have you noticed there seem to be a lot of managers nowadays? It’s not just you. Professors at the Harvard Business Review estimate there is one manager for every 4.7 employees and claim this excessive amount of paper-pushers leads to a total loss of $3 trillion dollars per year in the US. This amount of waste

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  • The Economics of ‘Mending Wall’

    The Economics of ‘Mending Wall’3

    Mending Wall, the endearing 1914 poem by Robert Frost, offers important lessons about economics and cooperation. While the poem contains lessons about balancing tolerance and acceptance, modernity and tradition, and perhaps the efficacy of national borders, it remains open to interpretation. The surface-level message, repeated twice in the poem, is that “good fences make good neighbors,” which

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  • Five-Dollar Eggs and the Gift of Productivity

    Five-Dollar Eggs and the Gift of Productivity2

    A dozen eggs now cost five dollars at my local grocery store. I would complain, but given that some people are reporting nine dollar eggs, it seems like a better idea to just shut up, be grateful, and ration the eggs I do have. An even better move would be to consider how smart my neighbor John*

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  • Why We Should Study Philosophy

    Why We Should Study Philosophy1

    When I tell people I’m in school for philosophy, they usually respond with one of two extremes: admiration or ambivalence. Either they give me an impressed look, a shake of the head, and an awed comment like “I could never do that”; or they give me a pair of raised eyebrows, a polite nod, and

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  • Why Reparations Make No Sense

    Why Reparations Make No Sense14

    Among many tell-tale signs of the tectonic fissures dividing the nation, perhaps the most telling is the call by prominent Democrats and others for reparations. A recent proposal by California governor Gavin Newsom calling for reparation payments of a potential $223,200 per black resident pushes the matter once again to the fore. Reparations refers to

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