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  • COVID-19 Through the Eyes of a Child

    COVID-19 Through the Eyes of a Child0

    “COVID is where you die.” So said my three-year-old grandson, John Henry, when I asked him what he knew about COVID-19. Like many of my readers, I come across online articles warning of the negative effects of the virus on young people nearly every day. While only a tiny number of them have died from

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  • The Disappearance of Average Joe

    The Disappearance of Average Joe0

    Here’s the answer to that question right off the bat: Joe didn’t go anywhere. Instead, our culture, our lawmakers, our pundits, and others made him invisible. They have erased Average Joe. And Average Josephine too, for that matter. Who today really speaks for the barber in Weaverville, North Carolina who just spent eight hours on

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  • ‘Multiracial Whiteness’ Is the Latest Leftist Branding Iron

    ‘Multiracial Whiteness’ Is the Latest Leftist Branding Iron0

    Fraser Myers recently asked at Spiked how blacks and Latinos could vote for Donald Trump and in some cases enthusiastically join demonstrations for him, given the supposedly obvious fact that that Trump is a white supremacist. According to Myers, New York University professor Cristina Beltrán answered this troubling question in the Washington Post in a memorable gloss on “whiteness”:

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  • Freeing Parents From the Anxious, Helicopter Lifestyle

    Freeing Parents From the Anxious, Helicopter Lifestyle0

    I loved Little House on the Prairie when I was little, but as I grew older, my favorite story from this series of novels centered not on Laura Ingalls’ childhood, but on that of her husband, Almanzo. The youngest of four children growing up in 19th century New York, Almanzo and his siblings were once

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  • All Hail the Reopening!

    All Hail the Reopening!0

    What a glorious thing the reopening is! After nearly a year of darkening times, the light has begun to dawn, at least in the US.  Given how incredibly political this pandemic has been from the beginning, many people smell a rat. Is it really the case that the reopening of the American economy, particularly in

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  • C.S. Lewis and the NXIVM Cult

    C.S. Lewis and the NXIVM Cult0

    My wife and I recently watched The Vow on HBO Max. It’s a nine-part documentary about NXIVM (pronounced “NEX-ee-um”), an organization that claimed to provide personal and professional development training programs. Think Scientology in its early days, when it was an unorthodox therapy program without all the sci-fi religious mythology. Like Scientology, its true nature

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