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To Run or Rebuild?20
- Culture, Featured, Politics, Uncategorized, Western Civilization
- September 30, 2025
Trust in our institutions – religious, medical, educational, cultural, or governmental – has eroded significantly in the last century, especially in the last decade. Conservatives in particular lament the sad state of our institutions which they view as co-opted by forces hostile to the best interests of Americans. Marxist theorist Rudi Dutschke’s “long march through
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Be Truthful to Yourself, Not True27
- Culture, Featured, Literature, Philosophy, Religion, Uncategorized, Western Civilization
- September 29, 2025
“Be true to yourself” is one of the primary slogans of our culture. This same culture insists that if a man feels like a woman, he is one, and if a woman loves a woman, that’s all well and good, and if someone wants to murder their unborn child, so be it. In each case,
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Insurgency the Peaceful Way30
- Education, Family, Featured, Uncategorized
- September 26, 2025
Before becoming the U.S. Secretary of War, Pete Hegseth wrote half-a-dozen books. The only one that didn’t deal with military affairs and American warriors was his 2023 “Battle for the American Mind,” in which Hegseth and co-writer David Goodwin addressed the failures of American education. It discussed the century-long progressive movement that nearly buried classical
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The Choice Before Us – Chaos or Christianity29
- Culture, Featured, Philosophy, Religion, Uncategorized, Western Civilization
- September 25, 2025
In the weeks since Charlie Kirk’s death, many have been appalled at the treatment his life received at the hands of public figures and private individuals – many of whom are the teachers, doctors, and other average people who populate our lives. How can such people, we wonder, treat an apparently innocent man in such
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Have More Babies Than You Can Afford27
- Culture, Family, Featured, Politics, Uncategorized, Western Civilization
- September 24, 2025
“Find a woman, marry her, provide, have more kids than you can afford. That’s my advice for young men. Don’t play the victim. Even though you legitimately can play the victim card on everything we’ve said, the mindset of a victim is parasitic to your soul.” This was the surprisingly controversial advice of slain political
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The Value of Human Life in the Face of Suffering14
- Culture, Featured, Politics, Uncategorized
- September 24, 2025
Kyrie, eleison, I sang with my choir as I glanced down at my phone to see the news that Charlie Kirk had died from the gunshot to his neck. Lord, have mercy. Within seconds, I heard his name whispered from across the room as the news reached my choirmates. The internet flooded with reactions to
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Resuscitating Civility in the Wake of Charlie Kirk’s Death22
- Culture, Featured, Uncategorized, Western Civilization
- September 23, 2025
In “The Soul of Civility,” Alexandra Hudson makes a sharp distinction between civility and politeness. Politeness and manners are the form, the technique, of an act, but civility is more. … Instead of focusing on the form alone, civility gets to the motivation of an act. Civility is a disposition that recognizes and respects the common humanity, the fundamental personhood, and
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4 Lessons Americans Must Learn From Italian Culture18
- Culture, Family, Featured, International, Uncategorized
- September 22, 2025
Beauty and history flooded over me like the sunlight as I strolled through the slim, winding streets of a Tuscan town. I was submerged in an environment rich with sensory delight – from the medieval and Renaissance architecture rising on all sides, to the lilting sound of a street musician’s accordion, to the smell of
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Modern Plagues at Our Door14
- Culture, Entertainment, Family, Featured, Uncategorized
- September 22, 2025
From my favorite chair, I heard my 11-year-old son Eric playing indoor baseball with his friend in our basement. The sound of their rising voices drifted upstairs as they argued over a rule in their made-up game. Finally, Eric called a stalemate: “Let’s ask my dad — he’ll know.” I heard his footsteps start up
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