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‘White People’ is a Surprisingly Modern Term 0
- Culture
- September 12, 2017
The Jacobean playwright Thomas Middleton invented the concept of ‘white people’ on 29 October 1613, the date that his play The Triumphs of Truth was first performed. The phrase was first uttered by the character of an African king who looks out upon an English audience and declares: ‘I see amazement set upon the faces/Of
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Congress’ Illegal ObamaCare Exemption and Its Nixonian Defenders 0
- Economics
- September 12, 2017
Thousands of members of Congress and congressional staffers are benefiting from an illegal scheme that gives Congress special treatment both by exempting them from the harshest part of ObamaCare and by providing them each up to $12,000 in benefits that federal law prohibits them from receiving. Last week, the Heritage Foundation’s John Malcolm and I
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Walker Percy’s Theory on the Redemptive Power of Hurricanes 0
- Literature
- September 11, 2017
The idea that hurricanes can be anything other than destructive might sound strange to many people. And the idea that they can be a source of redemption and healing probably sounds downright absurd. But the novelist Walker Percy (1916-1990) believed just that. To Percy, a writer and philosopher from Louisiana, modern man’s great struggle was
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Why Chesterton Matters More Than Ever 0
- Economics
- September 11, 2017
As fall approaches and students head off to college, can hitting the books be far behind? Maybe the attack is already underway, as incoming freshmen finally turn to that summer reading assigned by colleges at the time of their acceptance. But for all students there are syllabi to be read, books to be purchased—and perhaps
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Is it Time for Conservatives to Create an Alternate Culture?0
- Culture
- September 11, 2017
The culture leans sharply left, and in our current, highly-polarized political climate that means conservatives in the arts tend to be treated as outsiders at best and pariahs at worst. Listen to the personal experiences of conservatives in Hollywood, for example, whether “above the line” (the stars, producers and directors) or below it (the rest
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Will America Be Better Off Without Religion?0
- Religion
- September 11, 2017
The Enlightenment dream was of a West united by the secular ideals of freedom and equality, rather than by traditional Christianity. Apparently, that dream is finally becoming more of a reality. According to a poll released by the Pew Foundation last week, a “rapidly rising” segment of U.S. adults now identify as “spiritual but not
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