Culture

Viktor Frankl and the Search for Meaning 3
- Culture, Featured, Literature, Philosophy
- September 9, 2024
Everything can be taken from a man but one thing: the last of the human freedoms—to choose one’s attitude in any given set of circumstances, to choose one’s own way. —Viktor Frankl Are human beings primarily motivated by sex and power? The first two great psychoanalytic schools, one founded by Sigmund Freud and the other
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‘If the Devil Can’t Make You Bad, He’ll Make You Busy’1
- Culture, Featured, MomThink
- September 6, 2024
The noon sun beamed high in the sky as I began warming up my daughter’s team in the outfield grass. It was the start of another 12U softball Saturday in the Chicago suburbs. As I lined up the girls, I watched our head coach pull up in his minivan about 15 minutes late for warm-ups.
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Can Federalism Stop a New Civil War?3
- Culture, Featured, Politics
- September 6, 2024
Violence hangs over the 2024 election. Well before the botched assassination of President Trump, half of the country already expected to see a civil war within the next few years. Riots have become commonplace—as have outbursts of the oldest form of hate. But in a sense, none of this is surprising. It is the natural
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Why We Shouldn’t Abandon Our Institutions 1
- Culture, Featured, MomThink, Politics
- September 5, 2024
I recently was invited to attend an event hosted by my alma mater—a college that is outspokenly conservative and so generally attracts young conservatives and libertarians—in order to speak to incoming college freshmen about their transition into higher education. While sharing my experience about how my liberal arts education set me up for professional success
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This Book Explains Every Political Argument 3
- Culture, Economics, Featured, Politics
- September 5, 2024
One of the curious things about political opinions is how often the same people line up on opposite sides of different issues. The issues themselves may have no intrinsic connection with each other. They may range from military spending to drug laws to monetary policy to education. Yet the same familiar faces can be found
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Why Aren’t Governments Tackling the Epidemic of Sexual Abuse in America’s Public Schools?0
- Culture, Education, MomThink
- September 5, 2024
This week the Washington Post ran a long feature about a school police officer in South Carolina who has been accused of several sexual assaults on high school girls. It turns out that more than 200 police officers have been charged with child sexual abuse between 2005 and 2022. These officers are patrolling schools to prevent mass
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