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  • Giving Thanks for the Web of Interdependence

    Giving Thanks for the Web of Interdependence0

    Much has been made this year of expressing gratitude to frontline and essential workers. Whether in healthcare, grocery stores, or other industries, these individuals put their lives on the line to serve others, forming a strong link in the web of interdependence we all share. Yet expressing such gratitude often requires us to notice events

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  • Books in Brief:

    Books in Brief:0

    Cynical Theories: How Activist Scholarship Made Everything About Race, Gender, and Identity—and Why This Harms Everybody, by Helen Pluckrose and James Lindsay (Pitchstone Publishing; 352 pp., $27.95).  To understand wokeness, I often ask students to explain why they add the word “social” to “justice.” They have yet to provide a satisfactory answer. My subsequent requests for

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  • Some Church Lives Matter More Than Others

    Some Church Lives Matter More Than Others0

    Here is a textbook illustration of how the corporate media’s sins of omission can be far more damning than the corrupted industry’s sins of commission.        Over the weekend, thousands of patriotic citizens descended on Washington, D.C., to protest election fraud and defend President Donald Trump. Left-wing “black bloc” mobs threw water bottles,

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  • Falling Apart: The Unforeseen Consequences of COVID

    Falling Apart: The Unforeseen Consequences of COVID0

    This year has brought us a brutal lesson in the truth of the phrase “Ideas Have Consequences,” popularized by political philosopher Richard Weaver in 1948. Weaver argued that the rise of relativism was damaging Western civilization, eroding our abilities to use reason and logic for problem solving. Such loss of reason and logic have been

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  • Zoom Boom Driving Self-Absorption Crisis

    Zoom Boom Driving Self-Absorption Crisis0

    If you thought you were sick of Zoom calls due to eye strain and the constant struggle to avoid talking over your coworkers, friends, or family members, you’ve escaped relatively unscathed. For many people, the frequent exposure to their own face while talking has driven them to some drastic measures. Plastic surgeons around the world

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  • Has America’s Suez Moment Come?

    Has America’s Suez Moment Come?0

    Two thousand twenty will surely qualify as an “annus horribilis” in the history of the Republic. By New Year’s, one in every 1,000 Americans, 330,000, will be dead from the worst pandemic in 100 years. The U.S. economy will have sustained a blow to rival the worst year of the Great Depression. And by the

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  • Bringing Joy to a Weary World

    Bringing Joy to a Weary World0

    I caught a glimpse of a friend’s Christmas decorations the other day while looking at social media. Positioned over the fireplace was the phrase, “The Weary World Rejoices.” That reference to a weary world, taken from the famous Christmas carol, “Oh Holy Night,” seems a fitting description of this year. Our world and those who

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  • Thinking Students Rank Last on the Government School Agenda

    Thinking Students Rank Last on the Government School Agenda0

    One of my favorite field trips as a child was my annual summer visit to a one-room schoolhouse where I spent the day dressed in an old-fashioned dress and bonnet, scratching away on a slate and learning lessons out of old McGuffey Readers. At the time, my delight in the McGuffey Readers stemmed from the

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  • Spy Novelist John le Carré Experienced Espionage Firsthand

    Spy Novelist John le Carré Experienced Espionage Firsthand0

    The man whose books redefined the spy novel genre, David John Moore Cornwell, died of pneumonia on December 12 at the age of 89. Author of such intricately woven yarns as Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy, The Honourable Schoolboy, and Smiley’s People, Cornwell was better known by his nom de plume John le Carré, and often dealt with the timeless issues of

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