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Christianity and Social Justice: What C.S. Lewis Said on the Subject1
- Culture
- August 15, 2017
Few would disagree with the assertion that politics increasingly pervades our culture. Much of the politicization stems from the ideology of social justice, the idea that the distribution of wealth, opportunities, and privileges in our society (and the world) is unequal and needs to be rectified. Christians increasingly are called to join this fight. “Justice
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Would-Be Tyrants Capture Language to Control Thought0
- Culture
- August 14, 2017
Today’s counter-revolution against liberty is being fought on a number of fronts in American society. One is on college and university campuses across the country, where the ideology of “political correctness” is strangling freedom of speech and smothering intellectual controversy and debate. Critical to this campaign is the capture of language. It is through our
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Why Smart People Aren’t Necessarily Rich1
- Economics
- August 14, 2017
If what my web analytics tell me is true, many of you reading this article have above-average IQs, but only a small percentage of you would crack the upper class in terms of income. Why is that? As the edge-laden question goes, “If you’re so smart, why aren’t you rich?” Well, IQ does have some
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Why Liberals Need David Duke0
- Politics
- August 14, 2017
The race riots in Charlottesville, VA, have provided the liberal media with another opportunity to engage in the moral posturing at which they are so proficient. Racism is evil, but it is fortunately now exceptional and weak-to-non-existent as a political force. We don’t have institutional racism anymore, so we have to invent opportunities to lure
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Why Didn’t Sanctions Stop North Korea’s Missile Program?0
- International
- August 14, 2017
North Korea’s long-range missile program has made significant technological advances in the past few months. For most of the past 20 years, the international community has struggled to stop this kind of progress. Kim Jong Un’s plan to target four test missiles approximately 20 miles off the coast of the U.S. territory of Guam shows just how
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What Is Capitalism and Where Did It Start?0
- Economics
- August 14, 2017
In a recent essay for The Imaginative Conservative, I claimed that capitalism had its origins in England. I had expected such a sweeping statement to raise the ire or the eyebrows of some readers and was not surprised that it elicited a puzzled response. “When,” one correspondent inquired of me, “did capitalism begin in England? Did it not start
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The Violence in Charlottesville0
- Culture
- August 14, 2017
The vast majority of people in the United States have no interest whatsoever in street battles between the alt-right (better described today in more poignant terms) and the counter-protesters. Most people have normal problems like paying bills, dealing with kids, getting health care, keeping life together under all the usual strains, and mostly want these
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Liz Harman and the ‘Schrödinger’s Baby’ Abortion Argument0
- Culture
- August 14, 2017
A couple of weeks ago, Princeton professor Liz Harman joined James Franco and Eliot Michaelson (whoever that is) to discuss the morality of early abortion. The essence of her logically incoherent argument is that the morality of abortion depends on whether or not an abortion took place. More specifically, whether or not an “early fetus” has “moral
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Bill Maher is Starting to Sound Like Pat Buchanan on Immigration0
- Culture
- August 14, 2017
On Friday’s broadcast of HBO’s Real Time, host Bill Maher sounded a little like—forgive me—Pat Buchanan. Discussing immigration and multiculturalism in America with guests Jon Meacham and Fareed Zakaria, Maher said immigration was a topic “worthy of debate,” particularly since the United States has had difficulty assimilating immigrants in recent decades. “One of the first
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