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  • Indifferent Citizens Are No Better Than the Corrupt Government They Detest

    Indifferent Citizens Are No Better Than the Corrupt Government They Detest5

    It’s not much of a secret that I’m a fan of old movies. Friends have teased me that I know the names of actors and actresses from the 1930s and 1940s better than those on the big screen today—and they’re right, I do! There’s a wholesomeness about the old movies that I love, and although

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  • Truth Dies in Darkness

    Truth Dies in Darkness5

    Can you kill truth? Probably not, but a lot of people are doing their best to dig its grave. A man I know teaches in a prestigious private school in Northern Virginia that prides itself on its progressive agenda. Students and faculty attend workshops on such subjects as critical race theory, and teachers must be

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  • California Ranks Dead Last Among US States in Tipping. Why?

    California Ranks Dead Last Among US States in Tipping. Why?7

    “I’m going to have to ask you to put your cigarette out.” I was a college student working as a waiter at a Wisconsin restaurant more than twenty years ago when I sheepishly said these words. I didn’t like saying them, and was frustrated I had to. The guest, who was sitting with his date

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  • Bud Light, Nike, and Searching for Common Sense

    Bud Light, Nike, and Searching for Common Sense5

    “Stupid is as stupid does.” That saying, popularized by the 1994 movie Forrest Gump, has been around a good while. The expression means that a person’s intelligence can be judged by his actions. Someone can have a law degree from Yale, but if he drives his car at 35 mph on an acceleration ramp while

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  • ‘Little Platoons’: The Family Will Win

    ‘Little Platoons’: The Family Will Win4

    In my younger years, my mother bought a recording of the musical South Pacific. We kids played it so often that we learned most of the songs by heart. This past week, one of the songs, “Cockeyed Optimist,” as sung by Mitzi Gaynor, kept popping into my head. Here are a few lines: I have

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  • Being Emotional Is Not an Argument

    Being Emotional Is Not an Argument0

    Discourse, especially in schools, is miserable these days. As Randall Smith, the Scanlan Professor of Theology at the University of St. Thomas in Houston, argues, there are only three options when it comes to uncomfortable topics, “Non-judgmentalism, furious indignation, or ironic detachment.” How he describes his experiences teaching at the college level goes a long way

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