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Wanted: Moral Courage
“It is curious that physical courage should be so common in the world, and moral courage so rare,” wrote Mark…
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Lincoln Steffens: The Muckraking Journalist Who Exposed Corruption in US Cities—but Was Seduced by Lenin’s Bloody Revolution
A century ago, the American journalist Lincoln Steffens visited the land of Lenin (the Soviet Union) and famously pronounced upon…
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Reviving the ‘Can-Do’ Spirit Is Key to Recovering from the COVID Years
“In life, your attitude determines your altitude,” a wise person once said. I agree. I’ve observed many people with bad…
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Winston Churchill’s Gold Standard Folly
Winston Churchill’s résumé was remarkable enough to earn him the title of Renaissance Man. Sandhurst-educated soldier, journalist, painter, historian, world…
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The Russian Mathematician Who Exposed the Cannibalistic Nature of Socialism
Igor Rostislavovich Shafarevich is not exactly a household name, but the man richly deserves to be remembered, a century after…
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DeSantis Reminds Public Universities of Uncomfortable Truth About ‘He Who Pays the Piper’
“He who pays the piper calls the tune” is a familiar proverb. Wiktionary tells us it means that “The person…
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The Big Problem With the Traditional ‘Political Spectrum’ Children Are Taught in Schools
In classes on Government and Political Science, with few exceptions, students in both high school and college are taught that…
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Evil Is Rising, but Despair Is Not an Option
To many people, the world seems to make less and less sense with each passing day. Values we once cherished…
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Martha Raye: The Freedom-Loving ‘Big Mouth’ From Butte
At St. John’s Hospital in Butte, Montana, little Margy Reed (no relation) entered the world on August 27, 1916. The…
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A Brief History of Presidential Campaign Songs and Other Musical Musings
Franklin Roosevelt’s campaign song for his first presidential run in 1932 was the catchy number titled Happy Days are Here…
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FDR’s Other ‘Day of Infamy’: When the US Government Seized All Citizens’ Gold
December 7, 1941 will forever be remembered as, in the words of Franklin Delano Roosevelt, “a date that will live…
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John Lennon was Actually an Awful Role Model
Sixty years ago, Beatlemania was rocking the world of music. Writing in the Atlantic, Colin Fleming refers to 1963 as…
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Opinion
Ireland’s Astonishing Economic Growth Holds an Important Lesson
St. Patrick’s Day makes this week a perfect opportunity for an update on Ireland and the Irish. Recent developments in…
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Opinion
Why Censorship Should Chill You to the Bone
China’s first emperor, Qin Shi Huang, once said “I have collected all the writings of the Empire and burnt those…
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