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Monday, November 23, 2015
Thank Sara Josepha Hale for Thanksgiving...
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This Thursday, Americans will celebrate Thanksgiving with a Turkey dinner and expressions of gratitude. Although the holiday has apparent...
Tuesday, November 17, 2015
The Revolt of the Elites
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O Jose Ortega y Gasset wrote The Revolt of the Masses in 1929. In his magnum opus, Ortega was critical of the phenomenon of "mass-...
Thursday, November 12, 2015
The Consolations of Philosophy
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Kudos to James Taranto for speaking out in defense of philosophers. He wrote, in a Wall Street Journal post titled The Closing of the...
Thursday, October 29, 2015
Spielberg's Bridge of Spies
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What can one say about a movie which makes Soviet spy Rudolf Abel into a dignified and sympathetic protagonist, the US government into ...
Sunday, October 25, 2015
Michel Houellebecq's Submission
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French author Michel Houellebecq is in some ways a variation on America's Mark Steyn . Like the Canadian expatriate, he is a prolific...
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