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Remember, Remember, the Dead in November 0
- Culture, Family, Featured, History, Philosophy, Western Civilization
- November 13, 2025
As November sucks the color from the landscape and wind stirs the crackling leaves of the graveyards into little flurries, I stand under swaying pine branches, surrounded by headstones, and offer a few prayers. The cemetery is wrapped in a sacred stillness and silence, the kind of silence that surrounds mysteries too deep for words.
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Teaching the Past to Restore Hope for the Future 0
- Culture, Education, Family, Featured, History, MomThink, Western Civilization
- November 11, 2025
Recent chatter on social media featured a young woman telling her story of how political developments in the United States encouraged her to flee her home country and settle in Costa Rica. But Costa Rica wasn’t the paradise she envisioned. With the value of hindsight, she has come to feel the absence of the blessings and benefits
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Men, Build Something 0
- Culture, Family, Featured, History, Western Civilization
- October 29, 2025
Not long ago, a certain meme multiplied across social media platforms involving clips of women asking the men in their lives how often they thought about the Roman Empire. The women in these clips were surprised and bemused when the men replied that they thought about the Roman empire frequently, sometimes multiple times daily. I found the
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‘Truth and Treason’ and the Power of Standing up to One’s Own 0
- Featured, Culture, Entertainment, History, International, Politics, Western Civilization
- October 28, 2025
It’s never easy to admit when you’re wrong – especially when it means standing up to your own people. In the opening scenes of “Truth & Treason,” we see a young Helmuth Hübener craft his “patriotic statement.” It’s 1941, in Hamburg, Germany, and Hübener’s statement is the 16-year-old’s final task to obtain an internship at
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The Canary in the Coal Mine of Culture 2
- Culture, Featured, History, International, Philosophy, Politics, Religion, Western Civilization
- October 28, 2025
This past month has made me aware that the anti-Zionism and the anti-Semitic bigotry that have infected our news media and college campuses have trickled down into my own community. In one conversation, for instance, a good friend and fellow Catholic almost 50 years younger than I, stunned me with revelations about some of her
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It’s Time to Rebuild America’s Shared National Identity 0
- Culture, Featured, History, Politics, Western Civilization
- October 23, 2025
The other day, an amusing image showed up on social media featuring CBS television personality Gayle King sitting on an airplane next to Fox News television personality Jesse Watters. King posted the selfie on her Instagram page, reveling in the ironic, chance encounter with a rival journalist. Despite being on opposite sides of the political aisle, the
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