Culture

What Can the Men From ‘The Lord of The Rings’ Books Teach Us Today?7
- Culture, Entertainment, Featured, Literature
- October 1, 2024
In sorrow, we must go, but not in despair. Behold! We are not bound for ever to the circles of the world, and beyond them is more than memory. Near the close of The Return of the King, Aragorn proclaims these words of farewell, seeking to comfort his friends as they depart to their homes
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I Debated Pro-Choice Students at My Liberal College. Here’s Why It Gave Me Hope.10
- Culture, Education, Featured
- September 27, 2024
My hands were shaking as I took up my microphone. After a week of near-sleepless nights thanks to the stress of college classes, extracurriculars, and researching the ubiquitous abortion question, I was tired. Worse than that, I was nervous to speak in front of a room filled with my peers about my (counter-cultural) views on
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Principles Are the Antidote to Politics 1
- Culture, Politics
- September 27, 2024
Only four percent “of US adults say the political system is working extremely or very well.” Sixty-five percent say we “always or often feel exhausted when thinking about politics.” Yet, we keep doubling down, thinking that more attention on politics will somehow fix what ails society. In 2020, candidates spent over $14 billion seeking the presidency. This was
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Break Out of Bad Therapy: Gen Z’s Road to Resilience 2
- Family, Culture, Science
- September 26, 2024
In 2018, 1,200 Yale undergraduates crowded into one of the University’s largest venues, Battell Chapel, ready to listen and learn. But the students sitting in the glow of the chapel’s stained-glass windows, who comprised almost a quarter of Yale’s undergraduate population, were not there for a church service. They were there for the most popular
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The Key Ingredient We’re Missing: Integration 1
- Culture, Featured
- September 25, 2024
The same thing that makes for a beautiful piece of music makes for a healthy society: harmony. In a beautiful musical composition (such as the alt-folk album Appaloosa Bones that I’m listening to as I write), the notes of each chord harmonize with one another, as do the notes of the melody, and a unifying
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Fulton Sheen and the Power of Speech 2
- Culture, Featured, Religion
- September 24, 2024
It is the early days of television in one of the studios of TV network pioneer DuMont. There is a live audience gathered before a mock study, and all is quiet. The cameras start to roll. A door at the back of the set opens and out walks a remarkable figure. He is dressed in
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