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Why Johnny Ivy League can’t read

If things are this bad, what does a university even mean, anyway? What’s its purpose? As a culture, we’ve decided that the university is not a place to learn the truth, grow in virtue, form scholarly saints, produce civilized ladies and gentlemen, or even provide much in terms of vocational training. It has become a…

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Richmond is now a city of death

When we take in the whole ugly picture, I think one thing becomes clear: Virginians in general and Richmonders in particular must repent of their sin. The faithful churches of this metropolitan area must cry out in lamentation for this grievous evil and any part we may have played in it. We must support pro-life…

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Wright is wrong

Bishop N.T. Wright is one of the most influential scholars of the New Testament alive today, able to write not only for academic audiences but also for popular ones. If I want to gain insight into Second Temple Judaism or the reality and implications of the resurrection of Jesus, Wright is certainly one of the…

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Maduro vs. Musk

Nor is our feeling of smallness when titans on the world stage come to rhetorical (hopefully not physical) blows. Perhaps we feel like the pitiful peasants of old—the seemingly forgotten nobodies who never made it into the history books. Perhaps our best course of action is to cheer on Musk as he challenges Maduro’s legitimacy.…

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A delusion of Olympic proportions

But the highest sporting authorities in the world are now attempting to walk a tightrope between competitive fairness and sexual liberation. Simply put, men pretending to be women are at an unfair advantage against actual women. Yet, instead of putting down a blanket ban against transgendered athletes, we can find byzantine rules that attempt to…

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Should humanity exist?

The folks at Politico would like us to think that anyone who wants “a culture in which child-rearing is paramount” is “far right,” and thus a menace to be eschewed. They would have us think that concern over the birth dearth is for oddballs. But such a belief isn’t “new right” or “far right.” It is…