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Secular Education Drives American Religion’s Decline 0
- Education
- June 12, 2020
In his observations about 19th-century America, Alexis de Tocqueville pointed to religion as the first of the country’s political institutions – sweeping in its influence on our customs and powerful in its propensity to preempt and prevent tyranny. Yet today, American religiosity is in decline. Weekly church attendance is trending downward, as is self-identification with
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It’s Time to Raze the Colosseum 0
- Culture
- June 12, 2020
A number of statues have recently been destroyed or vandalized to protest racism and slavery. I thought that it might be good to think big and work towards eliminating the biggest monument of all, the Colosseum. I’ve created a petition at change.org. If you agree, please sign it. Below is the text. Memorializing genocidal monsters,
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1984 Interview Explains the ‘Ideological Subversion’ of America 1
- History
- June 12, 2020
“Maybe we’ll wake up and this will all be a bad dream.” I think that’s the sentiment of many these days. Our world seemingly changed overnight and many of us just long to go back to the piddly struggle of getting up every day to drive to work. The trouble is, it’s unlikely we’re going
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Neighborhood-Based Friendships Return During COVID 0
- Culture
- June 11, 2020
As the weather has warmed in my Midwestern town, my neighborhood is full of children on bicycles pretending to be riding through the Wild West. I can’t walk down the sidewalk without stepping on chalk drawings or hopscotch boards. There are children jumping rope and playing ball. In the eight years I’ve lived here, I’ve
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Minneapolis’ Business Exodus May Have Just Begun 0
- Economics
- June 11, 2020
Since 1987, Kris Wyrobek has owned and operated 7-Sigma Inc., a manufacturing company on 26th Ave. in south Minneapolis that employs some 50 people. Wyrobek says that after helplessly watching his plant burn during last month’s riots, he has no plans of sticking around. “The fire engine was just sitting there, but they wouldn’t do
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J. K. Rowling, Burn The Witch!0
- Culture
- June 11, 2020
Could 2020 possibly get more strange? J. K. Rowling, creator of Harry Potter, has been canceled. That’s right. The author beloved by millennials everywhere, a generation who came of age alongside the boy wizard, has now been called out by their younger, more woke, siblings. Her crime, ironically enough, is to deny the power of
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