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This week’s entries …
READ MOREIf there is a figure that is not a role model, it is Prince Harry, son of Charles III of the United Kingdom. His ghostwriter-assisted memoir, Spare, presents not a fairy tale prince but a postmodern anti-hero intent upon …
READ MOREIn his work The Western Canon, Harold Bloom wrote that a “reader does not read for easy pleasure or to expiate social guilt, but to enlarge a solitary existence.”
The apparent message in Bloom’s flourish is that a reader …
READ MORELast Tuesday night, the Philadelphia Flyers, a hockey team, participated in an LGBTQ+ Pride Night event. The team—with one exception—donned rainbow-colored jerseys as they warmed up before the game.
Defenseman Ivan Provorov opted out. “I respect everybody, and I respect …
READ MORE“Beauty,” wrote philosopher Roger Scruton, “is vanishing from our world because we live as though it did not matter.”
Whatever we may think of Scruton’s observation, it seems clear our ideas of beauty are at best confused, at worst degraded, …
READ MORENew Zealand Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern certainly hasn’t been on my list of favorite people for the last several years, largely due to her draconian COVID policies on masks, vaccines, and quarantines, and her “government knows best” attitude. But I …
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