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  • The Lost Art of Pen and Paper

    The Lost Art of Pen and Paper2

    I remember the joyful, parental excitement I felt when we sent our oldest child off to kindergarten. I can recall his nervous agitation, not knowing what to expect, but also understanding that he was older now, and a big boy. At our first parent-teacher conference that year I noticed something that I had not thought much

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  • ‘The Great Divorce’: What C.S. Lewis Would Say About Modern ‘Love’

    ‘The Great Divorce’: What C.S. Lewis Would Say About Modern ‘Love’4

    The plot of C.S. Lewis’ The Great Divorce is straightforward. The narrator, who strongly resembles Lewis, boards a bus along with some others traveling from Hell to Heaven. Once they’ve arrived at their destination, the quarrelsome passengers disembark, become Ghosts, and find themselves scarcely able to bear the reality of their physical environment—even the unbending

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  • Why Solzhenitsyn’s Line Between Good and Evil Matters

    Why Solzhenitsyn’s Line Between Good and Evil Matters5

    We want to think that the line between good and evil is clear and that individuals fall into one camp or another. In The Gulag Archipelago, Volume 1, Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn wrote, “If only it were all so simple! If only there were evil people somewhere insidiously committing evil deeds, and it were necessary only to separate

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  • The End of the End of Ideology

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    In 1960, Harvard sociologist Daniel Bell published a book called The End of Ideology. It argued that it was time to put aside all our ridiculous arguments of the past – socialism, fascism, liberalism, anarchism, technocracy, etc. – and just recognize that elites like him have it all under control. They had already established the building blocks

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  • ‘Mother Jones’ Goes Pro-Guilt and Anti-Logic on IVF

    ‘Mother Jones’ Goes Pro-Guilt and Anti-Logic on IVF1

    Recently,  Mother Jones ran a pair of articles (here and here) on the recent Alabama Supreme Court ruling that embryos produced via IVF procedures should be considered children, in effect criminalizing the routine destruction of unused or “defective” embryos. The articles lament the perceived unjust consequences of treating human embryos as people. The authors, Kiera

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  • Beauty as if It Mattered

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    “What can I do about what is going on in this country?” This is a question I commonly hear from patriotic Americans. Typically, they’re referring to ways they can make some meaningful change where they can see the results. In the past, I’ve often been at a loss as to what to say. Some of

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