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  • T.S. Eliot Summed Up Modern Education in 2 Paragraphs

    T.S. Eliot Summed Up Modern Education in 2 Paragraphs0

    A very wise man once noted that there is nothing new under the sun. Perhaps it is for this reason that many who have gone before us are able to frame the issues of our day with such prophetic clarity. T.S. Eliot is no exception. In 1932, Eliot wrote an essay entitled Modern Education and

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  • Solzhenitsyn, Suffering, and the Meaning of Life

    Solzhenitsyn, Suffering, and the Meaning of Life1

    “Bless you prison, bless you for being in my life. For there, lying upon the rotting prison straw, I came to realize that the object of life is not prosperity as we are made to believe, but the maturity of the human soul.”                                                                                 – Alexander Solzhenitsyn   Older readers will hardly need reminding of

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  • Soaring Child Care Costs: Is there an Alternative?

    Soaring Child Care Costs: Is there an Alternative?0

    The Wall Street Journal recently ran an article on the soaring cost of child care for American families. As the WSJ explains, “the cost of child care and nursery school has increased nearly twice as fast as overall inflation since the recession ended” in 2009. Particularly striking is the change in child-rearing costs between 1960

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  • Philosopher Explains Why We Protest. All. The. Time.

    Philosopher Explains Why We Protest. All. The. Time.0

    I arrived to work this morning to news that 40 or 50 protestors had blocked a local highway during rush hour in protest of last week’s killing of Philando Castile.   Similar protests are taking place across the country, yet protests have become so prevalent that we tend to scarcely notice them unless it directly

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  • Marvel Kills Bruce Banner, Retires Tony Stark in Diversity Purge

    Marvel Kills Bruce Banner, Retires Tony Stark in Diversity Purge0

    Say goodbye to Bruce Banner and Tony Stark, comic book fans. The iconic characters were replaced with a more diverse cast this month. News of Bruce Banner’s demise broke Wednesday. The Hollywood Reporter has the story:        Marvel Entertainment’s summer comic book storyline Civil War II has claimed the life of another hero — and it’s

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  • J.R.R. Tolkien’s Hope for the Modern World

    J.R.R. Tolkien’s Hope for the Modern World0

    Clyde Kilby, an English professor from Wheaton College, worked with Tolkien in the summer of 1966. “Tolkien was an Old Western Man who was staggered at the present direction of civilization,” Kilby recorded after a summer of conversations with Tolkien. “Even our much vaunted talk of equality he felt debased by our attempts to ‘mechanize

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