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  • The Ongoing Decline of the American Male

    The Ongoing Decline of the American Male0

    “We make men without chests and expect of them virtue and enterprise. We laugh at honor and are shocked to find traitors in our midst. We castrate and bid the geldings be fruitful.”  ~ C.S. Lewis, The Abolition Of Man In the movie Falling Down, Bill Foster (Michael Douglas) is a defense engineer who has lost

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  • Saying You’re Against Fascists Doesn’t Excuse Acting Like One

    Saying You’re Against Fascists Doesn’t Excuse Acting Like One0

    On March 23, 1919, Benito Mussolini, an Italian veteran of the Great War and a publisher of socialist newspapers, created the Fasci di Combattimento (commonly known as the Fascist Party) with the help of a few syndicalist friends. Nearly one hundred years later, the word fascism remains at the forefront of our political discourse even though fascism

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  • How America Grew Bored with Love

    How America Grew Bored with Love0

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  • Three Dangerous Philosophical Novels

    Three Dangerous Philosophical Novels1

    “I choose novels that let me turn my brain off,” a student confessed to me. My immediate response was to chastise her, “You did not receive a brain so that it could be turned off.” However, that evening I found myself streaming an old sitcom episode while washing dishes instead of listening to the dozen

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  • The Cultivation of Christmas Trees

    The Cultivation of Christmas Trees0

    There are several attitudes towards Christmas, Some of which we may disregard: The social, the torpid, the patently commercial, The rowdy (the pubs being open till midnight), And the childish — which is not that of the child For whom the candle is a star, and the gilded angel Spreading its wings at the summit

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  • The Great War Christmas Truce: ‘They Were Positively Human’

    The Great War Christmas Truce: ‘They Were Positively Human’0

    A 19th-century peace activist once asked, “Is it possible that any Christian, of whatever sect, who believes the New Testament to be anything better than a fable, can doubt for a moment that the time will come when all the kingdoms of the earth shall be at peace?” Jesus Christ, as both a religious and

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