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The Best World War II Movie You’ve Never Seen

“We are believers in the myth of World War II,” wrote history scholar Alec Ryrie in a recent piece for First Things. It is “our religion.” By this, Ryrie means that in the absence of a unifying faith in our increasingly post-Christian age,…

Putting America First Means Putting Children First

For many decades, the notion of a child-centered politics has traditionally been relegated to the social conservative wing of the Republican Party. And for much of that time, social conservatives were always the shorter leg of the wobbly…

A Literary Giant Confronts His Would-Be Assassin

The first thing you notice when picking up Knife: Meditations After an Attempted Murder, Salman Rushdie’s account of surviving an assassination attempt two years ago, is the photo. The iconic image of the legendary writer — eyebrows cocked…

How Gambling Explains Our Modern, Complex World

If you were to watch “Moneyball” today, you might find it quaint. You may recall the premise: In a world before “data-driven decisions” was a cliché, a likable nerd played by Jonah Hill helps craft a baseball roster from a spreadsheet,…

How Ian Fleming Birthed James Bond

“We have all the time in the world,” James Bond tells his new bride Tracy in 1969’s “On Her Majesty’s Secret Service,” both moments before and after she dies at the hand of Bond’s nemesis Ernst Stavro Blofield. Unfortunately, like Tracy,…

Can We Fix A Culture Hostile To Raising Children?

Back in December, a viral video series on TikTok celebrated the DINK (dual-income, no kids) lifestyle, glorying in their ability to take European vacations, go crazy with bulk purchases at Costco, and splurge on their pets. At first, I…

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