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  • ‘The Man Who Was Thursday’: Chesterton’s Beautiful Nightmare

    ‘The Man Who Was Thursday’: Chesterton’s Beautiful Nightmare0

    The endlessly quotable G.K. Chesterton (1874-1936) was many things in his day: essayist, poet, radio broadcaster, art critic, and novelist. His most popular novel (and my personal favorite) was his novella The Man Who Was Thursday. The book involves rival poets (who serve as archetypes) as they encounter a ring of anarchists who are named

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  • Worthy of our Inheritance?

    Worthy of our Inheritance?0

    “The American people ought to be able to see their own boys as they fall in battle; to come directly and without words into the presence of their own dead.”  That sentence was LIFE’s justification for publishing this photo by George Strock that documents the carnage at the Battle of Buna-Gona in the South Pacific during

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  • Who Was Joan of Arc?

    Who Was Joan of Arc?0

    I always thought Joan of Arc was something of a medieval legend, embellished over the centuries in a hundred paintings, novels, and films. I couldn’t have been more wrong. Rummaging through the treasure of cheap French texts in the Kindle store, I unearthed Le Procés de Jeanne d’Arc. Her 1431 witchcraft trial in Rouen was recorded word-for-word,

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  • What Tocqueville Would Think about Modern Job Jumping

    What Tocqueville Would Think about Modern Job Jumping0

    Ever feel that Americans are increasingly on the go? If so, those feelings were recently confirmed, at least in terms of profession. A study by LinkedIn found that: “The new normal is for Millennials to jump jobs four times in their first decade out of college. That’s nearly double the bouncing around the generation before

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  • What Critics of ‘Cultural Appropriation’ Are Missing

    What Critics of ‘Cultural Appropriation’ Are Missing0

    Just type the word “cultural” into a search engine and you’re likely to find the phrase ”cultural appropriation” at or near the top. Whether it’s a social justice warrior engaging in a hostile confrontation with a kid over his dreadlocks, or it’s a rant about how Justin Timberlake has “appropriated” black culture with his music,

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  • To Hell and Back

    To Hell and Back0

    At age 12 I discovered Audie Murphy’s autobiography, To Hell and Back. As America’s most decorated soldier in World War II, it only seems fitting on this Memorial Day weekend to turn to the opening pages: On a hill just inland from the invasion beaches of Sicily, a soldier sits on a rock. His helmet

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  • Students: Midterms, Low Grades Infringe on Our Activism

    Students: Midterms, Low Grades Infringe on Our Activism0

    The Week reports that more than 1,300 “students at Oberlin College are asking the school to put academics on the back burner so they can better turn their attention to activism.”  Particularly offensive to students are midterms essays (they’d prefer a conversation with their professor, they say) and grades below a C.  Now, one might

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  • How Well Do You Know Your Memorial Day Facts?

    How Well Do You Know Your Memorial Day Facts?0

    We all love the family picnics and local parades which come with Memorial Day. But in the hustle and bustle of the holiday and the excitement over the unofficial start of summer, it’s easy to forget about the history and meaning behind our celebrations. Refresh your Memorial Day knowledge with the quiz below, keeping in

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  • A Revolutionary’s Guide to Creating a Workers’ Paradise

    A Revolutionary’s Guide to Creating a Workers’ Paradise0

    Vladimir Ilyich Ulyanov (better known merely as Lenin) pulled off one of the most unlikely revolutions in history. The Marxist revolutionary was exiled from Russian in 1900 but returned in April 1917 shortly after Tsar Nicholas II abdicated the throne. By October he had formed an embryo government, causing members of Russia’s Provisional Government to

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