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  • What Happened to Our Curiosity?

    What Happened to Our Curiosity?5

    “Curiosity killed the cat, but satisfaction brought him back.” As all ailurophiles know, cats are intensely inquisitive creatures, knocking over a glass of water as they explore a tabletop or checking out the backyard like a feline Sherlock Holmes. Humans are by nature just as nosey, prying around in all sorts of ways to solve

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  • Finding the Value in Hard Work

    Finding the Value in Hard Work0

    When I was a boy, my parents instilled in me the value of hard work—the hard way. After school, I, like many other kids, was expected to help around the house. Lawn mowing, weeding, cleaning, and other household activities defined my weekday afternoons. Homework followed chores, and only after that could I hang out with

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  • Shared Faith: How to Bridge America’s Racial Division

    Shared Faith: How to Bridge America’s Racial Division0

    The woke antiracism espoused by many of our cultural elites constitutes little more than a remade racism. The view that bridging the racial divide in American society requires blaming all racial inequalities on white privilege and structural racism cannot possibly end in racial reconciliation. It purports that non-whiteness is a righteous position of vindictive judgment

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  • American Made: What Sort of Worker Are You?

    American Made: What Sort of Worker Are You?36

    For Christmas this year, my daughter gave me an unusual gift. She hired a service to deep clean my house for four hours. At 9:15 a.m. on Saturday, Dec. 17, a small car pulled into my driveway. Two men and a woman got out and removed buckets and supplies from the trunk, and we introduced

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  • Three Steps to Make the Best of 2023

    Three Steps to Make the Best of 20235

    “It was the best of times, it was the worst of times.” So begins A Tale of Two Cities, Charles Dickens’ novel set during the French Revolution. After three years of pandemic, lockdowns, riots, two disputed elections, a war in Europe, skyrocketing inflation, cultural earthquakes, and other tribulations, it’s no wonder many Americans believe we

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  • Can Technology Save the World?

    Can Technology Save the World?2

    “The high tide!” King Alfred cried. “The high tide and the turn!” G. K. Chesterton (The Ballad of the White Horse) Time and tide wait for no man. Only a fool believes that he can turn back time and only an idiot believes that he can command the tide. With respect to the latter, it

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