Middlebury College Turns Its Back on the West
Just last week a group of so-called students, egged on by teachers ardent to relive their own...
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Author: Carl C. Curtis
Her Body Herself: Lady Macbeth in a Feminist Age
We—the dwindling numbers who still regard Shakespeare as an indispensible part of a man’s education—know that Lady Macbeth is, like her husband, a startling picture of unrestrained malice.
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Twenty-Seventeen’s Test-Tube Leftists: Groupthink and Newspeak 101
Trump is not a racist. But since the label is the ultimate Leftist smear, it works wonders even when used promiscuously as the Left is wont to do concerning, say, immigration, especially when it’s illegal.
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Universities at the Crossroads—Or Going Over the Cliff?
The time may come—and it may be very soon indeed—when the modern West, hardly in robust health itself, will find its future better served by a renewed Cathedral school and by the disappearance of a once-great institution, the university, that is degenerating before our eyes into a massive day-care center.
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We Are Still Conservatives, Aren’t We?
Bureaucratic creep and the expenditure of a trillion here and a trillion there will scuttle the Trump administration, the success of which depends on real and lasting economic growth. A profligate, overbearing government will not drain the swamp; it will swamp us.
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The Once and Future One – Barack Obama!
There will always be something at the core of Barack Obama, a little imp whispering in his ear, that will assure him the country, nay, the world is a better place if only because he graced it with his presence.
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Action! Camera! Kill Whitey!
The “paper of record” didn’t reveal the principals’ races until the third paragraph (that is, after many readers moved on to the next story) or that racism had anything to do with the crime.
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Aachen Cathedral a No-Go Zone: A Cautionary Tale About Terrorism
During the 2016 presidential campaign, Donald Trump was much criticized—no, castigated—for suggesting (certainly with his usual hyperbole) a ban on Muslim immigration to the United States. It’s an extreme measure, to be sure, but isn’t it about time we in the West realized these are extreme times?
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Brexit and Trump – The Little Platoons Have Stopped Standing Still
There’s a grand history of political philosophy behind the wishes of the Brexit and Trump voters, something simple anger cannot explain. It’s a philosophy that Edmund Burke found in the “little platoons,” men and women in real communities who wish to live their lives dedicated to preserving a past inherited from their fathers as part of the future they hope to bequeath to their children.
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Garrison Keillor Is Really a Coastal Foam Companion
Garrison Keiller wrote, “Raw ego and proud illiteracy have won out . . . [Trumpers] wanted only to whoop and yell, boo at the H-word, wear profane T-shirts, maybe grab a crotch or two, jump in the RV with a couple of six-packs and go out and shoot some spotted owls.”
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