Category: Feature

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Self Defense–Some Conclusions

For several hundred years, ordinary people have been taught to regard such practical necessities as surviving and defending themselves as rights that derive from nature.  Theories of natural rights are, alas, a poisoned chalice, since every assertion of right can be met with a counter-assertion

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Poems for December 6

Claudel, one of the great Christian poets of the last century, was subject to the crudest vilification from the communist and surrealist enemies of all things European, Christian, and civilized, in other words, the literary intellectual class that has destroyed literature and learning.

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Challenge of the Week: What Was Kyle Thinking?

You’ve just been hired as PR agent for Kyle Rittenhouse.  Evil-minded reporters on Left and Right seem to be asking the same question:  Rittenhouse went to Kenosha with an AR15 to take a stand for law and order in a riot orchestrated in part by Black Lives Matter, whose leaders have been threatening mayors and police departments across the country.  As one BLM spokesman just declared, when asked about the killing of five people at a Waukesha Christmas Parade, “It sounds like the revolution has started.”  How do you squareKyle’s support for lawfulness with his support for an organization inciting...

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Help Us Send the Prisoner On His Way

Dr. Fleming and I will be recording a final episode on the Prisoner next week and we want to hear from YOU! We’ve spent a good part of the year recording our thoughts on this series and we want to end our discussion by hearing from those of you who have listened to all or even some of the episodes we’ve spent hours recording. Let us know your questions, thoughts, comments, episode rankings, etc.  Post them in comment form here and I’ll make sure to incorporate them into next week’s episode.  

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My Travel Life Before Covid-19: A 12-Month Snapshot

I know it wasn’t that long ago that we were told it was going to be two weeks to flatten the curve, and perhaps the more pessimistic thought it would be two months, but I can’t imagine anyone speculating it would be two years before travel resumed as it was before March 2020. But here we are….