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Living in the Democracy Nobody Wants

September 6, 2020 0

Listening to our public commentaries, one would think that our democracy sits at the precipice of its own destruction. Had I a penny for every…

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Deadly Defenestrations from Overton Windows

August 18, 2020 0

Some evils have so much power we dare not speak of them. Like the villain in a horror story, we refuse to utter their names…

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In Search of the American Priest-King

July 28, 2020 0

In 1527, a group of peasants in ostensibly Christian Sweden brought to their king’s attention a critical grievance. Gustavus Wasa’s subjects held him responsible for…

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The Republic of Roderick Usher

July 21, 2020 0

“I really believed that around the whole house, and the ground around it, the air itself was different. It was not the air of heaven.…

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Everything Old Will Be New Again

July 7, 2020 0

“The thing that hath been, it is that which shall be; and that which is done is that which shall be done: and there is…

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