
In 2023, a group of individuals and organizations, with the most prominent at the time being psychologist, speaker, and writer Jordan Peterson, founded the Alliance for Responsible Citizenship (ARC). The intention of this group was to counter the decline of Western civilization and put forward a positive agenda for the future. “We reject the inevitability
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My daughter has intensely blue eyes, bright, cerulean, sky, and turquoise all mixed and glittering in mesmerizing orbs. Life, light, and laughter shimmer there, along with the hints of her own kind of wisdom. Where did this depth come from? Where this character, this soul? She is both mine and not mine. No human achievement
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Hollywood can’t make a good movie anymore. This is partially because of its own preoccupation with wokeness, which comes at the expense of artful excellence, but it’s also partially a lack of storytelling genius. The only movies people get really excited to watch these days are smut (“Wuthering Heights,” “The Housemaid”), viral sensations (“It Ends
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Recently I watched my two-and-a-half-year-old granddaughter at play. She toddled up and down the side porch, stopping to eat a bite of the apple slice her mother had given her, fingering some Play-Mobile figurines, pausing to gaze out across the small side yard. She’s a bright kid with a large vocabulary, compliments of her seven
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I’m proud to be an American. I write those words because, somewhere along the way, to be a proud American felt more like a confession than a point of pride. In recent years, many Americans have been made to feel ashamed for being, well, American. As we mark 250 years of independence this July, it’s time to
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Some of us may still practice the faith with which we were raised. Others may have fallen away from childhood religion into agnosticism, atheism, or indifference. Still others may have converted to another creed. While all these shifts in religiosity are far from uncommon, one overarching fact remains: Religious practice in the United States over
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