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  • Speaking Truth in an Age of Deception

    Speaking Truth in an Age of Deception0

    “Freedom is the freedom to say that two plus two make four. If that is granted, all else follows,” says Winston Smith in George Orwell’s 1984. Later in the novel we read, “In the end the Party would announce that two and two made five, and you would have to believe it.” In 2020, our

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  • What We Can Learn From ‘Beowulf’ About Monsters, Gratitude, and Culture

    What We Can Learn From ‘Beowulf’ About Monsters, Gratitude, and Culture7

    In the Anglo-Saxon poem Beowulf, set around A.D. 500, King Hrothgar of the Danes builds an immense hall, Heorot, ornate yet sturdy, a bulwark against the fog and darkness and barbarism of the age. Under its beams, the King and his thanes and their families can gather, smoke great slabs of meat, and pour out

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  • Easy Swaps for the Aspiring Ancestral Kitchen

    Easy Swaps for the Aspiring Ancestral Kitchen0

    Many traditionalists greatly value real food and proper nutrition. We understand how our bodies do not prosper on fast food, modern additives, and trendy diets. Many of us are working to get back to a more ancestral kitchen to offer real nourishment and sustenance. Unfortunately, few of us have the resources to actually live like

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  • Why the Best Gift for Your Child Is a Brother or Sister

    Why the Best Gift for Your Child Is a Brother or Sister3

    Original thinkers are hard to come by. If you doubt that, visit a diploma mill. You’ll see right off that credentials don’t confer character, creativity or common sense. Academic hubris conflates knowledge with wisdom. Such folks are a dime a dozen. Sui generis Then there is Colin Brazier: sui generis, in a class by himself. Original

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  • When Inequality Is Fatal for Men

    When Inequality Is Fatal for Men1

    Equality has always been an American preoccupation, right from the words “all men are created equal” in the Declaration of Independence. Yet even that phrase is not egalitarian enough by today’s lights; feminists have long objected to the gendered language of “all men.” Thomas Jefferson didn’t mean to commit a microaggression; in 1776, “all men”

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  • Is Woke Disney Dying?

    Is Woke Disney Dying?7

    Lightyear? A flop. Strange World? A flop. The Little Mermaid? A flop. Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania? A flop. The Marvels? A flop. Snow White? Postponed, probably for fear of a flop. All told, Disney has lost nearly $1 billion at the box office due to films like these bombing, according to box office analyst

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