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  • Has Star Wars Become a False Idol for Lost and Distracted Souls?

    Has Star Wars Become a False Idol for Lost and Distracted Souls?0

    HAN: Hokey religions and ancient weapons are no match for a good blaster at your side, kid. LUKE: You don’t believe in the Force, do you? HAN: Kid, I’ve flown from one side of this galaxy to the other. I’ve seen a lot of strange stuff, but I’ve never seen anything to make me believe

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  • Half of Class of 2016 are ‘A’ Students—Even Though Their SAT Scores Stink

    Half of Class of 2016 are ‘A’ Students—Even Though Their SAT Scores Stink0

    A while back, some friends of mine relayed an experience they had in their pre-marriage years while taking a college drama course together. At the beginning of the quarter, the instructor asked the students to write down the grade they would like to receive. The wife immediately wrote that she would like to receive an

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  • Do Psychopaths Have Feelings?

    Do Psychopaths Have Feelings?0

    Psychopaths have long captured the imagination. The names of famous psychopaths, such as Jeffrey Dahmer and Ted Bundy, evoke a morbid curiosity. The crimes committed by these men are so vicious, so unfathomably cruel, that it’s impossible to imagine how someone could do such a thing. The severed heads kept as mementos in Bundy’s apartment

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  • ‘Hate Facts’ – Yes, People Are Now Using That Term

    ‘Hate Facts’ – Yes, People Are Now Using That Term0

    It’s commonly said that a fact is what’s expressible by a statement that is “proven” to be true—e.g. statements such as “2+2=4” and “the Pacific is the earth’s largest ocean”—whereas opinions lack proof even when they happen to be true. Yet in an era when more and more reality is weaponized for political purposes, the

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  • Why the Devil Loves Democracy

    Why the Devil Loves Democracy0

    It may surprise many that C.S. Lewis, the beloved author of The Chronicles of Narnia, has some some interesting takes on topics like unselfishness and democracy. Although a Christian apologist, Lewis, like Ayn Rand, believes unselfishness is a vice, not a virtue, and he skewers democracy for its pandering to the average, for its leveling effect, and

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  • Where Have All the Children Gone?

    Where Have All the Children Gone?0

    It’s summer vacation, but you might not know it from the absence of children on streets and sidewalks, in parks and public spaces. Just as afternoons and weekends during the school year are more void of children than ever before, so too is summertime. Where are all of these young ones? Increasingly, they are contained

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