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  • Cancelling CO2: A Chilling Epiphany

    Cancelling CO2: A Chilling Epiphany10

    In a 1962 episode of Rod Serling’s The Twilight Zone, an alien race lands on Earth, promising to solve the problems of hunger, energy shortages, and war. In return, these aliens ask only to be trusted. A book an alien leaves behind is analyzed by decoders, who translate the title as “To Serve Man.” An

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  • Friday Comic: Yard Work3

    Credit: OwenComics (store) Twitter: @owenbroadcast Instagram: @owenbroadcast Save this article to favorites

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  • 3 Tips for Practicing Everyday Hospitality

    3 Tips for Practicing Everyday Hospitality3

    It’s not hard to imagine grandiose examples of hospitality. The older woman who hosts a crop of teenagers in her home every Thursday night. The man who frequently invites church visitors to his family’s Sunday dinner. The neighbor who throws quarterly block parties and welcomes the whole town. In these situations, hospitality is obvious (and,

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  • Presidents May Want a Line-Item Veto, but Citizens May Not

    Presidents May Want a Line-Item Veto, but Citizens May Not0

    What if there were some political tool that many US Presidents (going back to Grant, and all of them, including both leading major-party candidates this year) at least since Nixon, have wanted? What if they also agreed with Nixon that the result would be reduced political pork? Would such bipartisan agreement mean that the tool

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  • How Quitting a Book Can Be Great for Reading

    How Quitting a Book Can Be Great for Reading10

    I’ve written extensively about the value of reading good books, especially old ones, but I’ve never written about the need to quit books. Yet while there are many good reasons to read books that have stood the test of time, there’s also something to be said for putting a book down. As paradoxical as it

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  • The Loss of the Sacred in American Culture

    The Loss of the Sacred in American Culture6

    There’s a grim scene near the end of The Iliad in which the Greek hero Achilles, because of his rage and grief over the death of his comrade Patroclus at the hands of the Trojan prince Hector, slays Hector in battle and drags his corpse behind his chariot, day after day, desecrating the body in

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  • College Vaccine Mandates: Here to Stay?

    College Vaccine Mandates: Here to Stay?1

    It is January 2024, and Covid vaccine mandates persist at 70 of the top 800 colleges in the US, and who knows if they will ever let them go. If you are a healthcare major, nearly every clinical partner site still mandates that healthcare students take the most updated Covid vaccine (often no exemptions accepted) even

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  • Murdering Meaning: The Verbicide of Contemporary America

    Murdering Meaning: The Verbicide of Contemporary America8

    In George Orwell’s 1984 are dichotomies now familiar to many Americans: “War Is Peace. Freedom Is Slavery. Ignorance Is Strength.” Inscribed on the outside of the white, pyramid-shaped Ministry of Truth, this is the motto of Oceania, a nation governed by “The Party.” The Party designed these slogans to obfuscate the meaning of words, thereby

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  • With Canada Arresting Journalists, Freedom of the Press Is More Vital Than Ever

    With Canada Arresting Journalists, Freedom of the Press Is More Vital Than Ever2

    It was once unthinkable for nations like Canada to arrest journalists for asking questions. Not anymore. That’s precisely what happened last week when David Menzies of conservative news outlet Rebel News was accosted and handcuffed by members of the Royal Canadian Mounted Police (RCMP) for approaching Deputy Prime Minister Chrystia Freeland with a microphone in

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