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We Should Heed What This Ex-Soviet Spy Says About Beauty … And Terror 14
- Culture, Featured, Philosophy
- October 23, 2024
In the end, the only memorable stories, like the only memorable experiences, are religious and moral. They give men the heart to suffer the ordeal of a life that perpetually rends them between its beauty and its terror. These two sentences, written by Whittaker Chambers, quite literally stopped me in my tracks when I first
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Women’s College Volleyball Teams Are Reclaiming Their Sport From Men, One Boycott at a Time 5
- Culture, Featured
- October 22, 2024
Boycotts are costly, but they work. This is the lesson female athletes are learning across the United States as they sacrifice short-term gains and glory to reclaim their sports from female-identifying men. The latest news on this front comes out of Nevada, where a fifth women’s college volleyball team has forfeited their game against San
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The Hurricane Helene Response and the Forgotten Americans 2
- Culture, Featured
- October 22, 2024
On Thursday September 26, Hurricane Helene made landfall in Florida’s Big Bend region. It soon carved a path of destruction through Georgia, North Carolina, Virginia, and Tennessee, and it has claimed over 250 American lives, making it the deadliest hurricane to hit the mainland United States since Katrina in 2005. While the news cycle has
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A Case Against Checking In 6
- Education, Featured
- October 21, 2024
“How are we feeling today?” my teacher began. “Let’s do a quick check-in.” Typically, our check-ins involved a scale of one to five. One was the worst: It meant, the teacher explained, that we felt no motivation, had no energy, and couldn’t wait for the school year to end. Five was the best: It signaled
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Why Dengism Matters for America 3
- History, Featured, Politics
- October 21, 2024
Former Chinese dictator Deng Xiaoping is little known in the West, but his ideas should be common knowledge. He developed a new political-economic model for China, one often called “authoritarian developmentalism,” that helped hundreds of millions of people escape grinding poverty. However, “Dengism” maintained the Communist Party’s firm grip on society—and Western countries are starting
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Does the American Dream Really Cost $4.4 Million?1
- Culture, Economics, Featured
- October 18, 2024
Is the American Dream still possible? As inflation continues to bloat prices, we hear this question bandied about with increasing frequency. The answer depends a lot on how we define the “American Dream.” Investopedia’s version of the dream costs some $4.4 million over a lifetime—a figure that may place it out of reach for many
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