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- May 3, 2022
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The Counter-Repudiation That’s on the Way1
- Culture, Politics, Western Civilization
- August 17, 2022
Philosopher, writer, and teacher Roger Scruton labeled our age “the culture of repudiation” in his 1998 book An Intelligent Person’s Guide to Modern Culture. Though I am oversimplifying here, his basic premise was that academics and other influential writers and …
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Riding the Underground with Winston Churchill3
- Culture, Featured, History, Politics, Uncategorized, Western Civilization
- August 15, 2022
Five minutes and 47 seconds. That’s the length of the scene when Prime Minister Winston Churchill avails himself of the Underground, also called the Tube, in the film Darkest Hour (2017), a brief and fictitious cinematic interlude, yes, but one …
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A Man Without a Country? … Not Quite Yet6
- Culture, Literature, Western Civilization
- August 11, 2022
In January 1978, Kris and I were married in Milwaukee, Wisconsin—admittedly not the most propitious time weather-wise for a wedding. We’d saved our money, enabling us to honeymoon in Europe, spending a month with a friend in Switzerland and then …
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What Are We Going to Do When It Happens Again?5
- Culture, Politics, Science, Western Civilization
- August 5, 2022
Recently I ordered a copy of Naomi Wolf’s The Bodies of Others: The New Authoritarians, COVID-19 and the War Against the Human, and began the book the day it arrived.
Like you who are reading my words, I lived …
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Four Elements of a Good History Curriculum4
- Education, Culture, History, Politics, Western Civilization
- August 4, 2022
Protesting parents showing up at school-board meetings is one of the new scenes in our cultural landscape in recent months. COVID policies and gender propaganda are big on the list of things parents oppose, but the teaching of critical race …
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Word Salads No More5
- Education, Culture, Western Civilization
- July 29, 2022
Church was crowded, and I ended up, as I often do, sitting near the back. Just as Mass began, I glanced over my shoulder, as I also often do, to see whether some elderly person or pregnant mom might need …
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