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  • Saying You’re Against Fascists Doesn’t Excuse Acting Like One

    Saying You’re Against Fascists Doesn’t Excuse Acting Like One0

    On March 23, 1919, Benito Mussolini, an Italian veteran of the Great War and a publisher of socialist newspapers, created the Fasci di Combattimento (commonly known as the Fascist Party) with the help of a few syndicalist friends. Nearly one hundred years later, the word fascism remains at the forefront of our political discourse even though fascism

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  • How America Grew Bored with Love

    How America Grew Bored with Love0

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  • Three Dangerous Philosophical Novels

    Three Dangerous Philosophical Novels1

    “I choose novels that let me turn my brain off,” a student confessed to me. My immediate response was to chastise her, “You did not receive a brain so that it could be turned off.” However, that evening I found myself streaming an old sitcom episode while washing dishes instead of listening to the dozen

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  • The Great War Christmas Truce: ‘They Were Positively Human’

    The Great War Christmas Truce: ‘They Were Positively Human’0

    A 19th-century peace activist once asked, “Is it possible that any Christian, of whatever sect, who believes the New Testament to be anything better than a fable, can doubt for a moment that the time will come when all the kingdoms of the earth shall be at peace?” Jesus Christ, as both a religious and

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  • The Cultivation of Christmas Trees

    The Cultivation of Christmas Trees0

    There are several attitudes towards Christmas, Some of which we may disregard: The social, the torpid, the patently commercial, The rowdy (the pubs being open till midnight), And the childish — which is not that of the child For whom the candle is a star, and the gilded angel Spreading its wings at the summit

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  • 10 Reasons for America’s High Divorce Rate

    10 Reasons for America’s High Divorce Rate4

    It’s not news that U.S. divorce rate hovers around 50 percent. It seems more and more that divorce is no longer an anomaly – in fact, it might even be considered a norm. But have you ever wondered why the numbers run so high? According to Human Intimacy, by Frank D. Cox and Kevin Demmitt,

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  • Why the Hero of “It’s a Wonderful Life” Isn’t George Bailey

    Why the Hero of “It’s a Wonderful Life” Isn’t George Bailey0

    I think I’m not the only person that cries every time I watch “It’s a Wonderful Life.” The movie pulls our heart strings because we can all relate to George Bailey: man has dreams to see the world and do big things, but is instead given a meager life of service. Many reduce the film’s

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  • Walker Percy’s Diagnosis of American Depression Is Still True

    Walker Percy’s Diagnosis of American Depression Is Still True0

    One of Walker Percy’s central insights into the human condition was that most of the last century’s disastrous ideological movements stemmed from mistaken theories of the self. The most politically problematic of these flow from philosophical materialism. Materialism is the unacknowledged public philosophy of an increasing part of the American population, particularly those who identify as

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  • Three Times Keynes Was Not a Keynesian0

    John Maynard Keynes is, together with Milton Friedman, the most influential economist of the 20th century. His most acclaimed work, The General Theory of Employment, Interest and Money, contributed to the paradigm shift that took place in the economics profession in the mid-1930s. He’s also the most quoted economist among non-economists, who more often than

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