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  • How We’re Rippling Our Way to Tyranny

    How We’re Rippling Our Way to Tyranny3

    One of the favorite pastimes of my often competitive family growing up was seeing who could get the most “skips” from a stone thrown into the low-tide waters at the beach. This is a game that, as anyone who has played it knows, places a great deal of emphasis on correctly choosing the right rocks.

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  • Whom Are We Fighting For?

    Whom Are We Fighting For?4

    The great English philosopher and poet G.K. Chesterton said: “A real soldier does not fight because he has something that he hates in front of him. He fights because he has something that he loves behind his back.” War is an analogy that has fallen out of favor in the West. This helps explain why

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  • The Lost Art of Pen and Paper

    The Lost Art of Pen and Paper2

    I remember the joyful, parental excitement I felt when we sent our oldest child off to kindergarten. I can recall his nervous agitation, not knowing what to expect, but also understanding that he was older now, and a big boy. At our first parent-teacher conference that year I noticed something that I had not thought much

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  • ‘The Great Divorce’: What C.S. Lewis Would Say About Modern ‘Love’

    ‘The Great Divorce’: What C.S. Lewis Would Say About Modern ‘Love’4

    The plot of C.S. Lewis’ The Great Divorce is straightforward. The narrator, who strongly resembles Lewis, boards a bus along with some others traveling from Hell to Heaven. Once they’ve arrived at their destination, the quarrelsome passengers disembark, become Ghosts, and find themselves scarcely able to bear the reality of their physical environment—even the unbending

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  • ‘Mother Jones’ Goes Pro-Guilt and Anti-Logic on IVF

    ‘Mother Jones’ Goes Pro-Guilt and Anti-Logic on IVF1

    Recently,  Mother Jones ran a pair of articles (here and here) on the recent Alabama Supreme Court ruling that embryos produced via IVF procedures should be considered children, in effect criminalizing the routine destruction of unused or “defective” embryos. The articles lament the perceived unjust consequences of treating human embryos as people. The authors, Kiera

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  • Beauty as if It Mattered

    Beauty as if It Mattered15

    “What can I do about what is going on in this country?” This is a question I commonly hear from patriotic Americans. Typically, they’re referring to ways they can make some meaningful change where they can see the results. In the past, I’ve often been at a loss as to what to say. Some of

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