Culture

Killing Philosophy While Hungering for Meaning 0
- Culture
- May 18, 2020
Liberty University recently announced that it is ending its B.A. in Philosophy program. The university’s press release cited declining enrollment – employing five full-time professors to serve only 20 philosophy majors simply isn’t sustainable – as its reason for the cut, while promising that its students would still receive a rigorous philosophical education through Liberty’s core curriculum.
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COVID-19 Disrupts Ukraine’s Surrogacy Factories 0
- Culture
- May 15, 2020
Like rivets popping on the hull of the sinking Titanic, the stresses of the pandemic are revealing unexpected weaknesses in our societies. Suddenly we’ve realized that it wasn’t a great idea to source protective masks from China, that warehousing the elderly is dangerous, that we need check-out chicks more than we need managers, and so
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Memento Mori: Fear in the Age of Coronavirus 0
- Culture
- May 15, 2020
Memento mori. That’s Latin in short form for “Remember, you too shall die.” Recently I read Erik Larson’s The Splendid And The Vile: A Saga of Churchill, Family, and Defiance During the Blitz, in which he paints in vivid detail the people and the events of that time when Britain stood alone against the might of
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Patients Fearing COVID-19 Risk Their Lives By Delaying Medical Care 0
- Culture
- May 15, 2020
“Where have all the patients gone?” That’s what doctors in our West Virginia University hospitals began asking as the coronavirus pandemic spread. We were prepared for a rise in COVID-19 patients, but we didn’t expect the sharp decline we saw in everyday cases. Our emergency department visits fell by half in early April, a time
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Shock Poll: Parents ‘More Likely’ to Homeschool Post-COVID 0
- Culture
- May 15, 2020
It seems a bomb has been detonated in America’s education sector. Oh sure, there have been explosions going off the last few months as people try to adjust to alternative schooling. It’s only now, however, that we are beginning to realize how earth-shaking those explosions have really been. A new poll was released by RealClear
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The Indispensable American Family 0
- Culture
- May 14, 2020
In August 1884, Washington Gladden, possibly the most famous Christian preacher in the America of his day, wrote an article in The Century Magazine on “Three Dangers” besetting the welfare of the nation he loved. Of the first and third dangers he named, intemperance and gambling, I have little to say here. I will note
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