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  • Are We Living Through an Authority Crisis?

    Are We Living Through an Authority Crisis?6

    The American government has become incredibly powerful, but it’s lost much of its authority. That’s a serious problem: The difference between power and authority is the difference between tyranny and law, mob rule and republicanism, oligarchy and statesmanship. When the dividing line between the two break down, chaos results. For years, Americans have viewed both

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  • When Conventional Medicine Fails—Then What?

    When Conventional Medicine Fails—Then What?6

    We live in an unprecedented time in history. Never before has healthcare separated botanical medicine (using herbs to treat disease and illness) so strikingly from the conventional medicine of the day. But why has botanical medicine become something people turn to only when conventional medicine has failed them? From what I can tell, botanical medicine

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  • The Politics of Stephen King’s Fiction

    The Politics of Stephen King’s Fiction6

    Lately, I’ve been reading a lot of Stephen King, and I came to wonder about the horror writer’s political ideas. Several right-leaning essayists have already noticed a seeming disconnect between King’s politics and the spirit of his fiction. Tim Cavanaugh labels King a “lefty,” yet notes that his stories are full of “hard-headed pragmatism and

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  • Has Hollywood Killed Originality?

    Has Hollywood Killed Originality?5

    In bygone days, Hollywood was a bastion of original storytelling and imagination. The industry produced new tales that inspired us and transported us into another realm. But those days are long over, and we, the audience, have no choice but to endure the production of stale remakes and banal retellings of old narratives. Hollywood production

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  • What Jerry Seinfeld Learned While Reading Marcus Aurelius

    What Jerry Seinfeld Learned While Reading Marcus Aurelius0

    Emperor of Rome from 161–180 AD, Marcus Aurelius is remembered as the “Philosopher King,” largely because of his classic work Meditations, a cornerstone of Stoic philosophy that delves into such themes as reason, virtue, self-control, self-improvement, and finding peace in a turbulent world. The book might seem like an odd choice for a comedian, but Seinfeld

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  • Lincoln’s Last Hope: A Political Religion

    Lincoln’s Last Hope: A Political Religion11

    People love to talk about the crisis facing America today, but few take a moment to consider all of the terrible challenges that the nation has faced. Millions of Americans can remember the Cuban Missile Crisis, the Vietnam War, stagflation, the crime waves of 1970s and 1980s, and any number of other disasters. So while

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