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  • The Transformative Power of Forgiveness

    The Transformative Power of Forgiveness2

    Thirty-five years ago today—on December 27, 1983—the world witnessed a most extraordinary act of forgiveness. In Rome’s Rebibbia Prison, Pope John Paul II met for the first time with Mehmet Ali Agca, the very terrorist who shot him four times in St. Peter’s Square just two and a half years earlier. The two men sat inches from

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  • Chesterton On Why You Should Be A Reactionary

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  • Amid the Seas of Empty Asphalt, after Christmas

    Amid the Seas of Empty Asphalt, after Christmas0

    These are the days after Christmas, the days when families across the country burst out from their households of holiday cheer in order to once again brave the lines and lots of shopping malls, exchanging gifts and chasing year-end deals. It is, in other words, one of the busiest shopping days of the year, a “peak”

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  • What a Woman

    What a Woman0

    Fierce. Honest. Libertarian. Author and professor Camille Paglia speaks her own mind, uses logic rather than histrionics to make her arguments, and is unafraid of blowback from her critics. Though a lifelong Democrat and a supporter of Bernie Sanders, she refused to vote for Hilary Clinton, regarding her as a “liar.” She has called into

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  • Six Ways to Teach and Practice Gratitude

    Six Ways to Teach and Practice Gratitude1

    Kindness means thinking of others and acting in ways that contribute to their happiness. Complaining certainly doesn’t do that.  If you’ve been trying to make kindness part of your family culture and there’s still a lot of complaining, it’s time to take further steps to teach and practice gratitude.  Here are 6: 1. Discuss as a family

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  • Human Freedom Index 20180

    “ Cato Institute’s scholars Tanja Porčnik and Ian Vásquez have recently released the 2018 Human Freedom Index (HFI), a report where the authors look at freedom in the world using data from 2016. The HFI ranks countries from most to least free after analyzing 79 indicators related to personal and economic freedom. Here are five graphs

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