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Could Our Governors Rescue America? Restoring the Constitution One State at a Time6
Over half of the states—and the number is still growing—are now supporting Texas Governor Greg Abbott in his battle to control illegal immigration and to end the Biden administration’s disastrous policy of open borders. A statement issued by Abbott on January 24 begins, “The federal government has broken the compact between the United States and
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What Did Nietzsche Mean by ‘God is Dead’?3
- Culture, Philosophy, Religion
- February 5, 2024
In The Gay Science (1882), Friedrich Nietzsche’s character of the madman had proclaimed, “God is dead.” The Time cover for April 8, 1966, turned this proclamation into a provocative question for a world where religious practice was waning: But, though most people have heard of Nietzsche’s “God is dead” claim, there are few who understand
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Safetyism Eclipses Common Sense0
School’s out on April 8 for many kids in the U.S. and Canada. On that date, a full solar eclipse will be visible from Texas to Ontario, and “There are risks associated with viewing a solar eclipse,” several Toronto-area school boards announced. Those schools moved their May 17 kid-free professional development day to April 8
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Back in the Saddle Again: Some Reflections on Schools and Students0
In late December, I agreed to teach a Latin class in a small, private Catholic school here in Front Royal, Virginia. The headmistress had approached me several times in years past about coming back to the classroom, but always, I had refused, in large part because of my already hectic schedule. This time was different.
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Friday Comic: A Helping Hand0
- Entertainment
- February 2, 2024
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Dostoevsky and American Despair: The Penalty of Nihilism3
- Literature, Philosophy
- February 1, 2024
These chilling words, ringing with despair, come from one of the most striking characters in Fyodor Dostoevsky’s 1866 novel Crime and Punishment, Arkady Ivanovich Svidrigailov: We always imagine eternity as something beyond our conception, something vast, vast! But why must it be vast? Instead of all that, what if it’s one little room, like a
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The Dead Will Have Their Say2
In his classic work Orthodoxy, G.K. Chesterton penned these profound words about tradition: Tradition is only democracy extended through time. … Tradition may be defined as an extension of the franchise. Tradition means giving votes to the most obscure of all classes, our ancestors. It is the democracy of the dead. Tradition refuses to submit
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The Elite 1 Percent Behind the Cultural Civil War6
- Culture
- February 1, 2024
Scott Rasmussen has done America an enormous service. He and his team have identified the driving forces behind the destructive radicalism which is pushing us into a cultural civil war. While doing their two weekly national surveys, Rasmussen and his team noticed an anomaly. Out of every 1,000 or so respondents, there would always be
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Is Nihilism the Logical End of Atheism?7
- Philosophy, Featured, Religion
- January 31, 2024
What happens when nihilism is taken to its logical and philosophical conclusion? “Human rights are just like heaven and like God. It’s just a fictional story that we have invented and spread around. It may be a very nice story… but it’s just a story. It’s not a reality.” So says Noah Yuval Hariri, a
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