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  • The Origins of the Thought Police – and Why They Scare Us

    The Origins of the Thought Police – and Why They Scare Us0

    There are a lot of unpleasant things in George Orwell’s dystopian novel 1984. Spying screens. Torture and propaganda. Victory Gin and Victory Coffee always sounded particularly dreadful. And there is Winston Smith’s varicose ulcer, apparently a symbol of his humanity (or something), which always seems to be “throbbing.” Gross. None of this sounds very enjoyable,

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  • Rolling Stone: Men Who Abstain From Porn Are Dangerous Alt-Righters

    Rolling Stone: Men Who Abstain From Porn Are Dangerous Alt-Righters0

    There’s a scene in The Big Lebowski in which The Dude bitterly objects that the pornographer Jackie Treehorn, viewed by the local sheriff as an upstanding citizen who “draws a lot of water” in Malibu, “treats objects like women, man.” Lazy, inarticulate stoner though The Dude may be, even he understands that porn is a shady business and that

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  • Painting Tinseltown Red

    Painting Tinseltown Red0

    “Guerilla street artist” and “Republican” are two identities not often associated with one another. Yet arguably the most subversive street artist today claims both of those labels while operating in the belly of cultural Marxism, the City of Angels. Just last week, the citizens of Los Angeles awoke to find these posters plastered on bus

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  • Lost Innocence: Let’s Give Children a Childhood

    Lost Innocence: Let’s Give Children a Childhood3

    Back when I used to own a bookstore in Waynesville, North Carolina, a grandmother with two adolescent grandchildren visited our shop. The kids were soon sitting on the floor, absorbed in books, and the grandmother engaged me in conversation, telling me, as so many grandparents did, how much they loved reading. Then she said, “I

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  • The Return of the Native

    The Return of the Native0

    The essential error of the modernist theologians who pushed their agenda at the Amazonian synod is that they have fallen for the myth of the noble savage. But both the noble savage and the urban savage are simplistic generalities: They express a truth and a lie at the same time. The recent Amazonian synod in

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  • Ten Terrifying Facts About East Germany’s Stasi Surveillance

    Ten Terrifying Facts About East Germany’s Stasi Surveillance14

    To maintain power for 40 years while their people starved and plotted to escape, the Communist Party had to get very good at controlling people and undermining anti-state activists. But outright street violence and assassinations weren’t good for the Party image, so the Ministry for State Security got creative. Better known as the Stasi (the

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  • Religion and Cultural Friction: Are the Two Related?

    Religion and Cultural Friction: Are the Two Related?0

    Republicans and Democrats today rarely agree on anything. So it’s not surprising that a new Pew Research report shows them at odds again. This time, the disagreement is on religion and its influence in society. Roughly two-thirds of Republicans believe that religion brings people together, strengthens morality in society, and does more good than harm.

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  • Hillary Clinton: Women Have ‘Legitimate Concern’ About Transgender Issue

    Hillary Clinton: Women Have ‘Legitimate Concern’ About Transgender Issue0

    Former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton said in an interview that transgender issues raise a “legitimate concern” for women. Clinton appeared on BBC Radio4 with her daughter Chelsea Clinton on Tuesday to promote their book “The Book of Gutsy Women: Favorite Stories of Courage and Resilience.” They differed in their answers when asked about the subject of

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  • Back Row Kids: Dignity, Work, and the Vision of Williamson College

    Back Row Kids: Dignity, Work, and the Vision of Williamson College0

    On July 1, 1997, a massive rockslide closed I-40 between the Tennessee and North Carolina line. Boulders the size of school buses crashed across the highway and fell into the nearby Pigeon River. It took more than two months for work crews and government officials to clear away the debris – rocks, mud, trees –

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