The clearest and most disturbing expression of the present state of the world I’ve read comes from Zeid Ra’ad al-Hussein, the outgoing United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights.” This…
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democracy
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Images of immense pain and sorrow on the faces of high school students in Florida in the wake of another maelstrom of violence and bloodshed in America keep coming to…
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Secular believers mistakenly mix religion and politics. They say ridiculous things like: “Democracy is the only system built on respect for the infinite dignity of each individual man and woman,…
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At one of his victory laps, I mean rallies, in Iowa on Wednesday, President-elect Donald Trump was scarier than ever, all the more so because his threats were between the…
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Reading the commentaries of progressives as the presidential polls gives their candidate, Hill-Bill, the lead, one has to wonder: Is the miscreant Donald Trump destined to win?
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No single factor is more responsible for the rot at the core of American culture than the illusion of individual choice and the separate chooser. Is there another way, another…
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“I was shocked to the core when I heard about the killings of 12 people at the offices of Charlie Hebdo,” writes a professor of cultural history in London. He…
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Like most men of his generation, Roy had never talked about his experiences during World War II. But a few months before his death, we walked, he talked and I…