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  • Hospitality, a Cornerstone of Culture

    Hospitality, a Cornerstone of Culture0

    I recently read Sigrid Undset’s beautiful novel “Kristan Lavransdatter,” a tale of desire and regret set in medieval Norway. Undset has been rightly praised for the meticulous historical scholarship that informed the novel, offering us an authentic glimpse into the life of 14th-century Scandinavian culture. One feature of that culture that stood out to me

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  • What Can We Do to Solve the Problem of Regretful Parents?

    What Can We Do to Solve the Problem of Regretful Parents?0

    Evidently eager to introduce new ways to disincentivize adults from choosing parenthood, New York Magazine’s “The Cut” recently published a piece profiling mothers who regretted having children. These women are undoubtedly selfish and at least a little psychopathic to verbalize their wishes that their own offspring didn’t exist. Yet there is another common thread in

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  • How Not to Parent Like the Left

    How Not to Parent Like the Left0

    Have you ever noticed the connection which seems to exist between the radical left and radical Islam? Sirvan Karimi studied this question in a 2025 article, noting that the partnership between these two groups “has trivialized the left’s anti-oppression commitment.” He also notes that the shared hatred of Western civilization may be the magnet between the

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  • Why Name-Calling Is a Sign of a Poor Argument

    Why Name-Calling Is a Sign of a Poor Argument1

    “Racist!” “Misogynist!” “NAZI!!!” You may be a member of the Amish community if you haven’t heard someone hurl one of these insults at another individual. Given our cultural climate, you yourself have likely been on the receiving end of such demeaning labels. I count myself in that latter club. “Misogynist” is the label that I’ve

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  • Violent Speech on College Campuses Is Still Free Speech

    Violent Speech on College Campuses Is Still Free Speech0

    In 2024, the Israel-Palestine conflict incited protests, sit-ins, and marches across American college campuses. Although this debate is far from over, a new cause has taken precedence among young Americans: protesting deportations, arrests, and violence at the hands of Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) officers. Both issues bring the age-old question of free speech versus

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  • Notes of an American Pessimist

    Notes of an American Pessimist0

    The writer of Ecclesiastes had seen enough of the world. Wealth, wisdom, labor, pleasure – he’d tried them all and arrived at the same conclusion: Vanity. A breath. A chasing after wind. No one seems to talk about Ecclesiastes anymore. Not even in Christian circles. Scholars and early Jewish rabbis have argued for centuries over

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