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  • Penetrating Wisdom from Marcus Aurelius

    Penetrating Wisdom from Marcus Aurelius0

    1. “Waste no more time arguing what a good man should be. Be one.”   2. “Never esteem anything as of advantage to you that will make you break your word or lose your self-respect.”   3. “Nowhere can man find a quieter or more untroubled retreat than in his own soul.”   4. “There

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  • Do the British Write Better Children’s Books?

    Do the British Write Better Children’s Books?0

    Both British and American authors have produced a number of children’s bestsellers. But, as Colleen Gillard argues in The Atlantic, the British may have an edge when it comes to children’s literature. Why? According to Gillard, it’s because they tend to produce more books in the fantasy genre: “The small island of Great Britain is

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  • Not All Deep Friendships Are ‘Gay’

    Not All Deep Friendships Are ‘Gay’0

    Not every deep, loving relationship between people of the same sex is “gay.” Last week, in an essay for The Federalist, D.C. McAllister offered this valuable and timely reminder to a society that has largely forgotten what true friendship looks like. Drawing heavily on C.S. Lewis’ The Four Loves, McAllister references the traditional Greek distinction between

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  • Ben Franklin’s 3 Tips for People Actually Interested in Rational Debate

    Ben Franklin’s 3 Tips for People Actually Interested in Rational Debate0

    Benjamin Franklin’s famed Autobiography portrays a bright, talented young man, eager to be a success, but with a touch of mischief coursing through his veins. Reading between the lines, one can almost picture the spirited young Franklin as the equivalent of a modern-day Facebook troll. But something happened to Franklin in his late teens that

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  • Will Germany be Muslim in a generation?

    Will Germany be Muslim in a generation?0

    In The European, German Adorjan Kovacs makes the argument that based on demographics, the primarily Muslim migrants from the Middle East and North African will actually become the dominant population group within a generation. The Google translate of the article is a little bit rough, but his key point is that while there are 80

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  • Academic Writing is Becoming a Caricature of Itself

    Academic Writing is Becoming a Caricature of Itself0

    Much of modern postsecondary intellectual discourse emblematizes a regressive displacement of phraseology toward loquacious amalgamations intended to subvert intelligibility. Which is academic-speak for “Most academic writing these days is crap.” We’ve written on this subject before. In no other time in history have so many professors written so much that is unintelligible to the public,

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