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Reality Rejected: New NPR CEO Says 'There Are Many Truths'
Do encyclopedias like Wikipedia or news organizations like NPR exist to tell us the truth, to inform us about reality? Perhaps it’s not so simple anymore. The recent example of the former CEO of Wikimedia and new CEO of NPR, Katherine Maher, is a case in point. A pair of Maher’s speeches have been making
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What Four Years of Creative Writing Have Taught Me
In 2020, I took my first college-level creative writing class. It was held on Zoom (compliments of COVID-19), and I wrote a clunky 500-word piece that was, in part, about a bug. Now, at the end of four years of writing prose, poetry, and hymns, my writing has become (at least slightly) more sophisticated. Here
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Ladies, Let’s Start Speaking Well of Men
There’s ample conversation about toxic masculinity in our culture today. In some circles, the consensus seems to be that all men want nothing but to wield power and subjugate women. Of course, many of us know that this isn’t true of all, or even most, men—we need the gifts of both genders to build a
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The Vanishing Hardy Boys
Gone are the days of the Renaissance Man; the polymath ideal of humanism; man is the center of the universe and he should embrace the search for all knowledge because man alone has the limitless capacity for development! Alberti, the architect, painter, poet, scientist, horseman, and mathematician; Da Vinci, the artist, painter, inventor, musician, scientist, and writer;
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Friday Comic: Childhood Associations
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How I’m Preparing My Children for World War III
No one wants to see their child go off to war. But as a former intelligence officer and mother of two young sons, I’ve given a lot of thought to, well, the topic of war. I’ve considered the possibility that, if a global conflict broke out, my sons may find themselves suddenly called upon to
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Asking the Hard Questions About 'Climate Consensus'
Are we in the midst of a climate crisis? Broadly speaking, there are three answers to this question. Yes and we must decarbonize immediately. King Charles III delivered the keynote speech at the COP28 international climate conference organized by the United Nations last December. A confident and persuasive public speaker, Charles called for a “zero-carbon future”
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Holocaust Survivor Viktor Frankl on Collective Guilt
Only in movies and books is the line between good and evil people always clear. In The Gulag Archipelago (Vol. 2), Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn immortalized these words: “The line separating good and evil passes not through states, nor between classes, nor between political parties either—but right through every human heart—and through all human hearts.” Solzhenitsyn wrote those
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Karl Marx and Jordan Peterson: Why Marx Desperately Needed Peterson’s Advice
As I make my way through Paul Kengor’s wonderful book The Devil and Karl Marx, numerous things stand out about the father of communism. It’s not an exaggeration to say that it’s hard to imagine a more wretched human being than Karl Marx. It was almost as if all of the worst traits of humanity were
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Poetry and Grief: How Poetry Can Help With the Grieving Process
An unfortunate myth has captured the minds of many modern people: Poetry is inaccessible and irrelevant. I hear complaints to this effect from my students, sometimes, or read them in the comments sections of my articles. And I understand the sentiment. If you’ve never been exposed to classic poems with the guidance of a good
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Shareable Snack: Yellowstone – The Hidden Propaganda in Television and Movies
Overly consuming escapist media like the show Yellowstone without critical awareness makes it easy to adopt the ideas that Hollywood is promoting. Rather than thoughtfully forming our own opinions, we end up accepting propaganda. Watch our video to learn more! Save this article to favorites
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The Importance of Male Mentorship (and How to Find It)
My favorite comedic and outdoor author, Patrick McManus, said this in his book, A Fine and Pleasant Misery: “Every kid should have an old man. Fathers are alright but they spend entirely too much time at work.” While written for humor, the wisdom of this idea has the potential to answer a