Culture

Three Dangerous Philosophical Novels 1
- Culture
- December 21, 2018
“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 0
- Culture
- December 21, 2018
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’0
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- December 21, 2018
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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10 Reasons for America’s High Divorce Rate 4
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- December 21, 2018
It’s not news that U.S. divorce rate hovers around 50 percent. It seems more and more that divorce is no longer an anomaly – in fact, it might even be considered a norm. But have you ever wondered why the numbers run so high? According to Human Intimacy, by Frank D. Cox and Kevin Demmitt,
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Walker Percy’s Diagnosis of American Depression Is Still True 0
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- December 20, 2018
One of Walker Percy’s central insights into the human condition was that most of the last century’s disastrous ideological movements stemmed from mistaken theories of the self. The most politically problematic of these flow from philosophical materialism. Materialism is the unacknowledged public philosophy of an increasing part of the American population, particularly those who identify as
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Why the Hero of “It’s a Wonderful Life” Isn’t George Bailey 0
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- December 20, 2018
I think I’m not the only person that cries every time I watch “It’s a Wonderful Life.” The movie pulls our heart strings because we can all relate to George Bailey: man has dreams to see the world and do big things, but is instead given a meager life of service. Many reduce the film’s
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