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Tariffs, Hollywood, and Three Lies We’ve Come to Accept 3
- Culture, Entertainment, Family, Featured, Politics, Uncategorized, Western Civilization
- May 8, 2025
President Donald Trump unleashed another unorthodox idea the other day by floating the concept of tariffs on movies not made in America. Those in the movie industry “are downright apoplectic,” CNN reported, concerned that such an initiative will tank their business. I’m not sure what to make of this idea yet, as I can see
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BookTok and the Destruction of Literature 6
- Culture, Entertainment, Featured, Literature, Uncategorized
- May 7, 2025
The decline in reading in America is a troubling fact, so a social media trend that encourages people to frequent bookstores and read well into the night should be a welcome one, right? Yet “BookTok,” a TikTok term that refers to a community of mostly women who read dark, sexually-explicit fantasy novels, is anything but
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Making Dreams Come True Is More Than Wishing Upon a Star 8
- Culture, Education, Featured, Philosophy, Politics, Uncategorized
- May 6, 2025
Years ago, a newlywed couple spent a couple nights at the bed-and-breakfast my wife and I operated. Talking with us in the kitchen one afternoon, the husband declared that he intended to be a millionaire by the time he was 30. He was then working in some sort of direct sales outfit in which promotion
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There’s More to Life Than Politics 5
- Culture, Featured, Politics, Uncategorized
- May 5, 2025
“Man,” philosopher Aristotle declared long ago, “is a political animal.” Perhaps too political. A dozen years ago, when Sonny Bunch was the managing editor of “The Washington Free Beacon,” he expressed his frustration with people who are so consumed by politics that they have become incapable of separating it from other aspects of their lives,
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Learning How to Avoid the Mental Illness of Politics 15
- Featured, Politics, Uncategorized
- May 2, 2025
Dr. Thomas Insel is a psychiatrist and neuroscientist who served as Director of the National Institute of Mental Health from 2002-2015. In December 2023 he noted that since the Covid pandemic 38% more Americans were receiving some type of mental health care. “We are facing three distinct crises, which partially overlap,” Insel contends. The first is a
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Five Ways to Reinfuse Religion into American Society 19
- Culture, Education, Family, Featured, Religion, Uncategorized
- May 1, 2025
It’s the National Day of Prayer, that one day a year that we seriously take a few minutes (or maybe not even that) to say a prayer that our nation will turn back to God and get serious about living right. It’s a beautiful and good tradition – with leaders dating all the way back
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