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  • The Intellectual Storm Upon Us

    The Intellectual Storm Upon Us0

    “A great desolation grows about us but up there is the warmth of a fireside and the loveliness of a garden. There are shrines for the devout, but up there is a shrine for those who are going to war, for those who will see the shivering void beyond the rim of faith. Once heroes

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  • A 200 Year-Old Warning about Education in America

    A 200 Year-Old Warning about Education in America3

    • July 20, 2015

    It was 1803, and America was just coming into its own. But Princeton professor Samuel Miller (1769-1850) saw trouble on the horizon in an increasingly utopian attitude toward education. In A Brief Retrospect of the Eighteenth Century he wrote: “On the subject of Education, the century under review has given birth to a doctrine, which, though noticed

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  • Sundays Are Disappearing from the Western World

    Sundays Are Disappearing from the Western World0

    • July 17, 2015

    Perhaps some of you are old enough to remember Sundays when stores and restaurants were shuttered, and a deeper peace and quiet reigned. In America, it has now become a day where the mall closes at seven instead of nine. Apparently, this trend is spreading throughout the West. In last week’s Daily Mail, Peter Hitchens

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  • Are Your Friends Really Your Friends?

    Are Your Friends Really Your Friends?0

    • July 17, 2015

    To get by, we all need a little help from our friends. But in an age too often marked by superficiality, we often think about whether those we now call “friends” are actually our friends who will be with us in both fair and stormy weather. Turns out, the people in times past thought about

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  • The AFT Clinton Endorsement Just Keeps Getting Weirder

    The AFT Clinton Endorsement Just Keeps Getting Weirder0

    • July 17, 2015

    It seems that the American Federation of Teachers (AFT) ignored a memo from Richard Trumka, President of AFL-CIO, when it endorsed Hillary Clinton for president earlier this week.  Trumka allegedly sent a memo to all leaders under AFL-CIO’s umbrella – which would have included Randi Weingarten, president of AFT – saying that endorsement for president

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  • Aquinas’ 16 Steps to Becoming an Intellectual

    Aquinas’ 16 Steps to Becoming an Intellectual0

    • July 17, 2015

    An apprenticeship under a master is perhaps the best way to learn something. So it also goes with learning itself. If you want to become an intellectual, it helps to seek training from a master intellect. Undoubtedly, St. Thomas Aquinas (1225-1274) was one of the greatest intellects the world has known. He once told someone

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