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16 Aug
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Nominalism

What is decadence or malice if all is social law imposed through the triumph of the will? This triumph slipped—slightly at first—upon the slopes of nominalist denials of the Aristotelian doctrine of essence.

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16 Aug
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God Gives Life

Even before the pandemic, from 2007 to 2018, the rate of suicide among people aged 10 to 24 rose nearly 60 percent. The stress and social isolation brought about by COVID-19 and the societal response to it increased the risk ...

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16 Aug
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Ford Foundation’s aim to ‘change philanthropy’ warps the true meaning of ‘justice’ and ‘generosity’

Generosity is then a virtue intimately connected to justice, pertaining to the good use of the material goods we are entrusted to steward in this world. The gift of the poor widow is thus more generous than the gifts of ...

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22 Mar
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The Savior Temptation

Few of us are in positions to make decisions about whether nations go to war, but all of us have the opportunity to promote peace among our own family and friends. We shouldn’t let a focus on purportedly world-changing crusades ...

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02 Mar
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Places of Learning

The repercussions of failing to develop positive personal capacities during children’s formative period are wide-ranging and monumental. Employers have been complaining for years about the difficulty of finding qualified candidates—the problem being for the most part not the lack of ...

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01 Mar
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Affirm or Cancel?

Thus the culture of affirmation—in which self-esteem was the primary value and injuring someone’s sense of self-worth the cardinal sin—has given rise to the culture of cancellation, where it is not only permissible but mandatory, once a person has fallen ...

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01 Mar
0

Political Violence, Left and Right

The question at hand is not whether the system is illegitimate; the question is what tactic can advance the ideological aims of those intent on destroying the system from the side of the “oppressed.”

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16 Feb
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Lent and the Free Society

One who pursues bodily pleasure “at the cost of everything else” does not have control of his passions; his reason is not in the driver’s seat. Individual happiness and fulfillment is one casualty of self-indulgence, but the common good—societal wellbeing—is ...

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08 Feb
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Self-Control and Self-Government

The self-imposition of order, the founders understood, was achieved by the exercise of self-control, which was the bridling of passion by reason. Self-control was a virtue that required effort and cultivation. And virtue, they further understood, was most commonly imbued ...

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07 Feb
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Theories of Race

d bThe very concept of race seems to be a fuzzy category, lacking clear biological classification. Race as a biological phenomenon is subjective and does not represent a definite category in nature. Instead, race exists as part of a continuum ...

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