Culture

Will We Know If Our Precautions Kept Coronavirus at Bay? Here’s One Simple Test 0
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- March 19, 2020
Last week I published an article about the novel coronavirus, my ignorance, and my wonder at the fear and panic that have ensued. “There,” I thought, mentally dusting off my hands. “That’s it. No more coronavirus articles for me.” Then came Friday and my daily trip into my hometown of Front Royal, Virginia. First up on the
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Alena Pettitt: Defender of the Home and Tradition 0
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- March 18, 2020
Enough of coronavirus. Enough of Joe Biden, Bernie Sanders, and Donald Trump. Enough of the headlines, at least for today. Let’s jet off to England – while travel is still permitted there – and meet a bold woman: Alena Pettitt. An article by Channaly Philipp of The Epoch Times introduced me to Pettitt, “a voice for traditional housewives.”
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The Revival of Socialism 0
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- March 18, 2020
I am fiercely proud of the fact that I was raised in an anti-communist household in central Kansas in the 1970s and 1980s. Whatever faults my family had (and they were many), my mother made sure that I knew that socialism and fascism were flip sides of the same coin, that Hitler and Stalin had
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A Few Activities to Survive Social Distancing 0
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- March 18, 2020
You’ve been through this kind of thing before. Pouring rain or driving snowstorms drive all the kids inside, and you really aren’t in the mood to go anywhere else. Thus arises the problem of keeping the kids entertained while still maintaining your own sanity and keeping the peace. Usually though, such a scenario only lasts
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Pandemic Through the Eyes of a Globalist 0
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- March 17, 2020
Nearly 50 years ago, philosopher Thomas Nagel published a now-classic thought experiment on the nature of consciousness. “What Is It Like to Be a Bat?” is an attempt to do what is ultimately impossible: to see the world through the eyes of another sentient being. Whether Nagel succeeded is anyone’s guess. (The bat lobby has
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Travel in the Time of Corona 1
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- March 16, 2020
It is Friday morning, March 13th, the first day of President Trump’s ban on most Europeans’ travel to the United States. Belgrade’s Nikola Tesla Airport is notably less busy than usual. The local news station reports the current tally at 9 a.m. Corona infections have reached 130,000 and caused 5,000 deaths in 114 countries thus
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