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What Brings You More Joy: Your Child Getting into a Prestigious College or Getting Married?

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April 5, 2022

Tell your children that as happy and proud as you will be on the day they graduate college, you will be even happier and more proud of them on the day they marry. For most people, that is a fact.

The Tragedy of Will Smith

By Guy Shepherd

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April 2, 2022

Taking responsibility for your screw-ups is the cost of sanctimony. Talking to you, Will Smith.

Start from Zero—Again

By Emina Melonic

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March 29, 2022

Can we open our eyes and reject the idle “twirling” of a society addicted to cynicism, joylessness, and information?

My Dad’s Left Hand and the Insanity of Transgenderism

By John Conlin

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March 26, 2022

We need to discard this foolish notion that we can decide what is real and what isn’t based solely on our desires.

Rejecting ‘America’ for the Sake of America

By Anthony Esolen

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March 9, 2022

I want America to remember that realism that sometimes goes by the name of humility, promise keeping, diligence, and gratitude.

The Hat Lady

By Jennifer Polk

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March 5, 2022

Open yourself wide—even to strangers sometimes—and make those connections.

Martial Arts as War, and the Second Amendment

By Jack Kerwick

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March 4, 2022

The framers codified a martial spirit necessary for a free people.

Ukraine Demonstrates the Need for Gun Protections

By Lauren Farrell

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March 1, 2022

It’s better to be a warrior in a garden than a gardener in a war.

The Problems of Vulture Capitalism

By Theodore Roosevelt Malloch

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February 27, 2022

Vulture capitalism is a deviant and baseless form of capitalism, totally without virtue. In this fictional account of a debate between George Soros and the author, we see why.

‘This Happy Breed of Men’

By Roger Kimball

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February 26, 2022

There seems to be some deep connection between the English language and that most uncommon virtue, common sense.

For Your Own Good

By Christopher Gage

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February 24, 2022

The urge to save humanity is always an urge to rule over humanity.

Longing for Home

By Anthony Esolen

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February 23, 2022

Perhaps “Letter from Home” is a letter to us, who have wandered into a far country, not to fight but to give ourselves up to vanity.

Unbridled Presidential Power and Executive Actions

By Jack McPherrin

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February 22, 2022

With COVID-19 finally drawing its last breaths, now is the time to rein in the executive branch, before it establishes further precedent for power accumulation by future administrations.

Rising Crime, Self-Protection, and Finding Honest Martial Instruction

By Jack Kerwick

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February 19, 2022

Americans who are willing to assume responsibility for their own protection by pursuing the study of a genuinely martial art should take care to seek out a proper instructor.

Justin Trudeau and the Alchemy of Irony

By Roger Kimball

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February 19, 2022

Canada’s prime minister won a skirmish but lost his credibility, which means that he has also lost legitimacy and will lose the war.

The Death of Muscular American Social Life

By Anthony Esolen

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February 17, 2022

Will we be left with the worst of all worlds: moralism without morality, socialism without sociality, children without childhood, and humor without humor?

Prodigal Church, Prodigal Nation

By Albin Sadar

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February 17, 2022

The Christian church in America “must come to its senses” before we can expect the nation itself to return to be the light of liberty.

Five Rings or Fifth Columnists

By Christopher Roach

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February 13, 2022

When Olympic athletes can pick and choose country affiliations it undermines the nation’s political principles and reveals a more consequential disloyalty.

Scientism, Catholicism, and the God that Failed

By Brian Robertson

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February 13, 2022

With trust in once-respected institutions—including the Church—waning and social mores in flux, scientism fills the natural human need for some authoritative source of truth.

Why Ideology Is the Ancient Enemy of Civilization

By Victor Davis Hanson

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February 10, 2022

In such ideological dystopias, eventually even the shelves empty, the currency becomes worthless, and the nation regresses into poverty and chaos. Is that the future we await?