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  • Why Fairy Tales Aren’t Just for Kids

    Why Fairy Tales Aren’t Just for Kids9

    “Children must hear nothing but the vital truth, so far as we can give it [to] them,” G.K. Chesterton wrote over a century ago. “I say the vital truth: it is found mostly in fairy-tales…” Recently, I watched two movies back-to-back: Kenneth Branagh’s Cinderella (2015) and Jon Turteltaub’s romantic comedy While You Were Sleeping (1995).

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  • Why Eastern European Conservatism Is Different

    Why Eastern European Conservatism Is Different10

    Eastern Europe is by far the most conservative region of the Western world. The Russian Federation has arguably the least liberal system of government in all of Europe, and the nations of the Visegrád Group—Poland, Czechia, Slovakia, and Hungary—form a right-wing bloc within the European Union that resists the progressive agenda coming from Brussels. From

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  • Leaving a Legacy Through Simplicity

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    A few weeks ago, I came across a story in The Washington Post about a young woman, Rosie Grant, who scours graveyards across the country looking for recipes to make. Recipes in a graveyard? Yes, it does sound weird, but Grant was intrigued upon hearing the concept. The first gravestone recipe she came across was featured on Naomi

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  • George Washington’s Thanksgiving Message: What A Different Era

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    Thanksgiving is a quintessential American holiday. It is a holiday that in many ways requires some sense of the supernatural – whether we care to acknowledge it or not. Below you will find our first President’s proclamation of Thanksgiving in which his sense of the hand of Providence upon the American Republic is quite clear. Indeed,

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  • This Thanksgiving, Let’s Set a Place for Gladness

    This Thanksgiving, Let’s Set a Place for Gladness3

    About 18 months ago, I was reading for review Rachel Hollis’s self-help book Didn’t See That Coming: Putting Life Back Together When Your World Falls Apart. At one point, Hollis is talking to her friend Greg and apologizes for sounding “a bit like Pollyanna.” Greg asks if she’s read Pollyanna. When Hollis says no, Greg

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  • Why Practical Skills Are Still King (And How To Learn Them)

    Why Practical Skills Are Still King (And How To Learn Them)10

    When my parents’ lawnmower broke recently, my father took apart the engine and found the problem: a broken governor shaft. While the part for that lawnmower was no longer made, if it were, my dad would have been able to singlehandedly repair the mower. Similarly, I have memories of my grandmother canning peaches and pickles

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  • Traditional Masculinity Should Be GQ’s “New Masculinity”

    Traditional Masculinity Should Be GQ’s “New Masculinity”13

    GQ magazine held its 25th “Men of the Year” event in London last Wednesday. Talents from across the fields of culture, sports, and entertainment gathered for the glitzy gala celebrating the British men’s style magazine’s honorees for Men of the Year. Curiously, over a third of the personalities on that list were women. Of the

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  • There Are Too Many Saviors on My Cross

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    This article’s title derives from a poem published 50 years ago by actor and film star Richard Harris. Written in free verse, and recorded and released as a record in the days when vinyl was king, Harris’s poem was a cry for peace in Northern Ireland, a land plagued by political and religious violence between

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  • Will the ‘Effective Altruism’ Movement Go Up in Smoke Along With FTX?

    Will the ‘Effective Altruism’ Movement Go Up in Smoke Along With FTX?5

    On November 1, 30-year-old Sam Bankman-Fried, CEO of the cryptocurrency exchange FTX, was considered one of the world’s sharpest businessmen. SBF’s company was worth a cool US$32 billion; he was a major benefactor for a range of philanthropic causes; he was a major donor to the Democrats in the midterm elections; he was an icon

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