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  • Keeping Up the Fight Against Tyranny

    Keeping Up the Fight Against Tyranny0

    My article “The New Resistance Is Rising” appeared on Intellectual Takeout on Dec. 1, 2020. Since then, we’ve seen even more evidence of fraud in November’s presidential contest, the Supreme Court and other lower courts have refused to look at the evidence of this fraud, and the left will likely take control of our federal

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  • Books in Brief:

    Books in Brief:0

    Cynical Theories: How Activist Scholarship Made Everything About Race, Gender, and Identity—and Why This Harms Everybody, by Helen Pluckrose and James Lindsay (Pitchstone Publishing; 352 pp., $27.95).  To understand wokeness, I often ask students to explain why they add the word “social” to “justice.” They have yet to provide a satisfactory answer. My subsequent requests for

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  • Falling Apart: The Unforeseen Consequences of COVID

    Falling Apart: The Unforeseen Consequences of COVID0

    This year has brought us a brutal lesson in the truth of the phrase “Ideas Have Consequences,” popularized by political philosopher Richard Weaver in 1948. Weaver argued that the rise of relativism was damaging Western civilization, eroding our abilities to use reason and logic for problem solving. Such loss of reason and logic have been

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  • Some Church Lives Matter More Than Others

    Some Church Lives Matter More Than Others0

    Here is a textbook illustration of how the corporate media’s sins of omission can be far more damning than the corrupted industry’s sins of commission.        Over the weekend, thousands of patriotic citizens descended on Washington, D.C., to protest election fraud and defend President Donald Trump. Left-wing “black bloc” mobs threw water bottles,

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  • Bringing Joy to a Weary World

    Bringing Joy to a Weary World0

    I caught a glimpse of a friend’s Christmas decorations the other day while looking at social media. Positioned over the fireplace was the phrase, “The Weary World Rejoices.” That reference to a weary world, taken from the famous Christmas carol, “Oh Holy Night,” seems a fitting description of this year. Our world and those who

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  • Zoom Boom Driving Self-Absorption Crisis

    Zoom Boom Driving Self-Absorption Crisis0

    If you thought you were sick of Zoom calls due to eye strain and the constant struggle to avoid talking over your coworkers, friends, or family members, you’ve escaped relatively unscathed. For many people, the frequent exposure to their own face while talking has driven them to some drastic measures. Plastic surgeons around the world

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