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  • Don’t Let the Grinches Steal Your Christmas

    Don’t Let the Grinches Steal Your Christmas2

    This Christmas season, the grinches are staying busy as usual. There’s the usual crew who annually devote themselves to debunking the season, flailing away at everything from a babe born in a manger to the season’s extravagant buying and selling to taking offense when someone says, “Merry Christmas!” In Iowa, Satanists have honed in on

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  • The Importance of Being Jolly

    The Importance of Being Jolly1

    In the common parlance of modern America, the word “jolly” has fallen distinctly out of use. While words like “fun” and “happy” abound in everyday conversation, “jolly” is, in the minds of many, inexorably tied to Christmas. Traditional carols have kept the word alive in reference to the festivities of this season; one would be

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  • 7 Timeless Picture Books for the Christmas Season

    7 Timeless Picture Books for the Christmas Season0

    “Aletheia!” A 7-year-old girl grabs my hands and pulls me through the playing kids toward my church’s stash of books. “Will you read us a story?” The kids at my church enjoy picture books year-round, but—during the holiday season—the stories begin to revolve distinctly around Christmas. Several of these stories are ones I enjoyed when

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  • Christmas Shopping for a Happier New Year

    Christmas Shopping for a Happier New Year1

    Oscar Wilde defined a cynic as one who knows the price of everything and the value of nothing. If this is so, many of us are more cynical than we realize because we don’t know the difference between price and value. We buy the cheapest because this is our duty as good consumers. We need

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  • Light in the Darkness: We Need Your Help to Keep It Bright

    Light in the Darkness: We Need Your Help to Keep It Bright2

    My son’s house sits at the crest of a hill in a valley in the mountains of western North Carolina. On a recent visit, I was up at 4 a.m.—I’m an early riser—sipping coffee on the deck and looking at the litter of stars in the sky on that clear October night. Other than two

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  • Giving Before Getting

    Giving Before Getting2

    When I was a little girl, my mother would take me and my five siblings to Grants, a long-gone discount store. We did this the first week in December every year, shopping for each other using money we had earned and saved. Running down the aisles, touching everything, brimming with excitement, and bursting with secrets,

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  • When Your Child’s Doctor Is Working Against You

    When Your Child’s Doctor Is Working Against You1

    Maya Kowalski was admitted to Johns Hopkins All Children’s Hospital in 2016. She was 10 and in extreme pain from a condition called complex regional pain syndrome (CRPS). Sally Smith, a “child abuse pediatrician” who worked at the hospital through a state contract with child protective services, insisted Maya’s condition was caused and exaggerated by

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  • Propaganda and Cinema: ‘The Most Powerful Weapon’

    Propaganda and Cinema: ‘The Most Powerful Weapon’0

    Approximately two months ago, I wrote about a handful of celebrities, some of whom are Jewish, who have faced immense backlash and bullying over their public support of Israel in its ongoing war with Hamas. Now, it seems that supporters of the other side in this conflict are getting their own share of consequences, but

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  • Will Harvard’s Head Hang On?

    Will Harvard’s Head Hang On?0

    Last week, Intellectual Takeout reported on the jaw-dropping Capitol Hill testimony of MIT President Sally Kornbluth, UPenn President Liz Magill, and Harvard President Claudine Gay. In turn, each leader affirmed—bizarrely—that calls for genocide against Jews did not violate their schools’ harassment policies unless those calls were severe, directed at individuals, or crossed over into conduct.

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