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  • Coming Full Circle: A Way Out of the Riots

    Coming Full Circle: A Way Out of the Riots0

    Another night, another round of riots. They’ve now come full circle, as rioters hit up Minneapolis for the second time since George Floyd’s death. The rationale of the rioters? Rumors that police shot a black man. The truth that soon emerged, however, was that the man killed himself as police closed in due to his

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  • Eyes Wide Open: Seeing Liberty

    Eyes Wide Open: Seeing Liberty0

    In Lost In The Cosmos: The Last Self-Help Book, Walker Percy raises a number of philosophical questions regarding the self and why we know so little about ourselves. He also invites readers to participate in a number of “Thought Experiments.” In a chapter on “Why the Self is the only Object in the Cosmos which Gets Bored,”

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  • Retreat Is Not an Option

    Retreat Is Not an Option0

    In 2018, Rod Dreher published The Benedict Option: A Strategy for Christians Living in a Post-Christian World. In it, he argued that Christians needed to recognize that this is a post-Christian society, and that they should withdraw as much as possible from it and build up private Christian communities. His inspiration for this concept is

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  • Excellence: Race, Merit, and Our Young People

    Excellence: Race, Merit, and Our Young People0

    When Joe Biden and crew were seeking a vice-presidential candidate for the ticket, Biden stipulated that he would only look at women of color. A curious voter might ask: Isn’t such a requirement sexist and racist? Suppose you were running for president. You appear on national television and state you would only accept a white

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  • ‘Racism’ Is a Matter of Definition

    ‘Racism’ Is a Matter of Definition0

    Discrimination is part of everyday life, and though it often carries a negative connotation, it is an essential practice. For example, we discriminate against the kinds of TV programs or people we don’t like, between fact and fiction, and among activities of varying risk. But discrimination is an act; before that, it is an opinion.

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  • Making Marx Proud: Today’s Campus Lunacy

    Making Marx Proud: Today’s Campus Lunacy0

    Earlier this summer, a survey posted on Twitter posed this question: “If you were dropped 2,000 years back in time with nothing but the knowledge you have now, what would you do?” A man named Timothy Snediker replied as follows: “Easy. I would find and assassinate Jesus of Nazareth. Theologically speaking, it would be really

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