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Friday Comic: The Hero’s Journey 0
- Entertainment
- January 12, 2024
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Patriotism, Gratitude, and Western Civilization 3
- Culture, Western Civilization
- January 11, 2024
Many years ago, I attended West Forsyth High School near Winston-Salem, North Carolina. Though our sports teams then were generally mediocre, at basketball and football games our cheerleaders would inevitably break into a chant: “WEST IS BEST! WEST IS BEST!” That cheer came back to me while reading “The Decline and Fall of the Descendants
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Imagined Virtue: What News Can Make Us Miss 4
- Culture, Featured, Philosophy
- January 11, 2024
Clicking on my car radio, I hear two voices discussing—vehemently—a federal government conflict. Opening my podcast app, I find an entire category dedicated to “News,” or informing listeners of the latest scandals or controversies. And scrolling through YouTube, I find a host of suggestions for dogmatic political commentary. The mere volume of news outlets, encompassing
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Science Has a Major Fraud Problem. Here’s Why Government Funding Is the Likely Culprit 3
- Science
- January 11, 2024
President Biden’s 2024 budget includes over $210 billion directed toward federal research and development, an approximately $9 billion increase from 2023 funding. That might not sound particularly bad—after all, who doesn’t like science and innovation? But, although seemingly noble, the billions pumped into the US government’s National Science Foundation don’t always translate into finding cures for
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Epstein and Entertainment: What Happens When Your Favorite Actor Is on the List?1
- Culture, Entertainment
- January 10, 2024
Fewer legal proceedings have been as scrutinized, memed, and heatedly discussed as those involving the late, infamously well-connected human trafficker Jeffrey Epstein and his girlfriend and accomplice, Ghislaine Maxwell. From social media infographics declaring, “Epstein didn’t kill himself,” to demands to have Epstein’s client list unveiled so its members can be prosecuted to far-fetched conspiracy
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4 Things You Can Do to Change the Culture in 2024 4
- Culture, Featured
- January 10, 2024
Maybe I am on a new year high, but as I consider the West’s cultural renewal, I sense an optimism in the air I haven’t felt for years. In 2023, we saw a growing public awareness about the dangers and futility of transgender surgery. Alongside that, many woke up to the hypocrisy of the climate
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Land of the Free – An Update 9
- Economics
- January 10, 2024
Last year, I described a zoning kerfuffle that had gotten me into hot water with our local county authorities. I had, in a fit of naïveté, built a small wooden platform, put a canvas yurt on it, and rented it out as a popular “glamping” destination. Thinking that my rights as an American, private-property landowner made
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Need a Digital Detox? Here Are 3 Tips to Get Started.1
- Culture
- January 9, 2024
A couple of weeks ago when my fall semester ended, I broke my informal YouTube fast. After only a few days, I was reminded of why I enjoy leaving it alone. Sites like YouTube, Instagram, and Twitter catch the viewer by stimulating a seemingly never-ending desire for more. It’s like the childhood hiding-under-the covers-with-a-flashlight urge
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300 Christians Killed in Nigerian Christmas Massacres 1
- Featured, International, Religion
- January 9, 2024
While we were sitting down to Christmas dinner with our loved ones, Islamist militants launched a wave of coordinated attacks against Christian villages in Plateau State in Nigeria’s Middle Belt region. Between the evening of December 23 and Christmas Day morning, the militants killed an estimated 295 Christians across 25 villages in Bokkos and Barkin
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Friday Comic: The Hero’s Journey 0