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Men Without Chests: Reflections on the Death of a Great Hero and the America he Loved

Post author By Kelsey Ritchie
Post date September 14, 2018
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Chairman of the senate Armed Services Committee Sen. John McCain questions Secretary of Defense Ash Carter on the recently brokered Iran nuclear deal during testimony before the Senate Armed Services Committee in Washington, D.C., July 29, 2015. Carter was joined by Secretary of State John Kerry, Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Martin Dempsey and Energy Secretary Ernest Moniz. DoD Photo by Glenn Fawcett (Released)

In his book The Abolition of Man, the great British thinker C.S. Lewis contemplates the demise of universal values and moral leadership. From a young age, children are taught that only objective reality is universal, Lewis writes. The dismissal of a common standard of morality results in a society led by individuals with “heads no […]

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America Needs More Extremists: Confronting the Myth of Political Polarization

Post author By Trevor Whitney
Post date December 6, 2013
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The argument that America is in the stranglehold of widening, bitter political battles has become so prevalent that it is widely accepted as true. The problem, however, is that it’s not. Senate Democrats complained that President Obama’s appointments were being blocked by an “obstructionist” Republican minority- even though only 4 out of 1,560 Obama appointees […]

Tags anarchist, Democrats, extremists, partisan, political parties, political polarization, Republicans, socialist, Ted Cruz