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Raising Courageous Kids in an Indecent World19
- Culture, Education, Family, Featured, Philosophy, Politics, Uncategorized
- March 19, 2025
Not long ago, President Donald Trump signed The Protection of Women and Girls in Sports Act. Surrounded by a bunch of sweet and excited young girls, the action was heralded with fanfare, proclaiming that common sense had returned to America and that the young females among us would no longer be threatened by predators in
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Why Parents of ‘Twice-Exceptional’ Children Choose Homeschooling Over Public School10
- Education, Family, Featured, Uncategorized
- March 19, 2025
Homeschooling has exploded in popularity in recent years, particularly since the pandemic. But researchers are still exploring why parents choose to homeschool their children. While the decision to homeschool is often associated with religion, a 2023 survey found that the two top reasons people cited as most important were a concern about the school environment, such as safety and drugs, and
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Dying Alone – Building Community in an Age of Isolation7
- Family, Featured, Uncategorized
- March 18, 2025
On Feb. 26, 2025, first responders found Betsy Arakawa, 65, dead on the bathroom floor of the palatial Sante Fe, N.M., home she shared with husband and Hollywood star Gene Hackman, 95. Hackman’s body was found in the mudroom. Investigation revealed that Arakawa had died around Feb. 11 of a rare rodent-borne disease, hantavirus pulmonary syndrome, while
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Rehabbing This Old House of the American Republic31
- Culture, Featured, Uncategorized, Western Civilization
- March 17, 2025
At the February 2025 Alliance for Responsible Citizenship (ARC) conference in London, writer and speaker Douglas Murray called on the 4,000 attendees to replace deconstructionist post-modernism with an age of reconstruction. “The Deconstructionists,” he said, “knew something about how to take things apart, but like children with bicycles had no idea how to put them
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DOGE and the 4 Essentials Needed to Create a Decent Society10
- Culture, Family, Featured, Uncategorized
- March 14, 2025
Elon Musk and his DOGE-related spending cut recommendations have dominated headlines in recent weeks. Some Americans are treating the announcement of these cuts like Christmas morning, thrilled at the idea that they get to keep more of their money, rather than have it go toward projects they disagree with – such as the transgender mice
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What Makes for Beauty in Architecture?60
- Culture, Featured, History, Uncategorized, Western Civilization
- March 13, 2025
I spent the first few years of my life in the West End neighborhood of Birmingham, Ala. My mom would routinely pile us kids into the old Ford, and off we would go downtown, observing very old, very beautiful buildings all over the city. These glimpses of structural beauty were deeply stamped upon me –
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Ora et Labora: Making Work Meaningful5
- Culture, Education, Featured, Uncategorized
- March 12, 2025
“Be always employed in something useful,” wrote young Benjamin Franklin, promoting the virtue of industriousness and discouraging the wasting of time. “Cut off all unnecessary actions.” Surely, though, he did not intend that we maintain a perpetual busy-ness just for its own sake. After all, as Henry David Thoreau pointed out, “It is not enough
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Good Life, Good Death5
- Culture, Featured, Religion, Uncategorized, Western Civilization
- March 11, 2025
Another Ash Wednesday has come and gone. On this day, many Christians attend church, where a priest or a pastor marks their foreheads with a cross made of ashes, saying, “Repent, and believe in the Gospels,” or more traditionally, “Remember that you are dust, and to dust you shall return.” The latter injunction, which derives
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Is Marriage No Longer Worth It for Men?11
- Culture, Family, Featured, Uncategorized, Western Civilization
- March 10, 2025
Recently, I dated a man a few times who, as I quickly learned, was opposed to marriage. He pointed out that the legal binding of a marriage puts the man in a very vulnerable position, one in which if – or he would say when – a divorce occurs, his home, children, and livelihood are
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