I love the sentiment here, but this is not an accurate depiction of the situation in which humankind finds itself. In particular, there never was a time at which we considered ourselves brothers and sisters, etc. Recently, the theory of …
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Below is a Christmas cartoon from 1974. To me, what makes it worth mentioning is that 50 years ago, most Americans could have recited this passage from H.D. Thoreau from memory, where today, just half a century into the great …
My wife is decorating our Christmas tree in advance of a party we’re hosting tomorrow evening. My job is putting on music of the season to keep her in the mood as she picks out the ornaments and arranges them …
There have been neo-Nazis in American society, their numbers ebbing and rising, ever since the Third Reich was put down in 1945. They are a scourge to civilization, because they remind us of everything that is wrong with the human …
Common wisdom suggests that the “rich” in the sense presented at the left have wrested control of our country’s lawmaking processes so completely that the rest of us are powerless to regain even the tiniest bit. I’m not so sure. …
Hillsdale College writes: There’s no doubt that socialism is on the rise in America, especially among younger citizens. A recent poll showed that 70% of Millennials are either “somewhat likely” or “extremely likely” to vote socialist. I’m heartened by this, …
What the meme here says is largely true, but as a practical matter, there is no way to get there from here. Most of the people who are willing to remove meat from their diets (for whatever reason) have already …
Americans live in the only country in the developed world that allows people with treatable diseases to die, simply because they can’t afford healthcare. This should make every single one of us extremely angry.
Plenty of Americans believe that, if we were simply to teach Christianity to our schoolchildren, we would greatly reduce the number of our kids whose bodies are torn to bits by crazed gunmen. Of course, that doesn’t account for places …
History provides us with hundreds of different comments as to the cause of societal evils. What ancient Athenian historian and general Thucydides says here is quite consistent with the others’ observations. Sadly, there are people who look at Donald Trump …
