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A day of public thanksgiving and prayer (1789)
Thanksgiving is a most American holiday: a celebration of plenty, a union of family and friends, and a humbling before God. Amidst strife, President…
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Nicola Buskirk
No amount of intellectual brilliancy or of material prosperity or of easiness of life can atone
A century before alarm bells sounded over the fertility crisis and demographic replacement, Theodore Roosevelt condemned personal "independence" in…
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Nicola Buskirk
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Being in love is a good thing, but it is not the best thing.
Where does love start and being in love end? C.S. Lewis differentiates the two in this excerpt from his book, Mere Christianity.
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Nicola Buskirk
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You are murderers, wilfully smothering the vital flame
What makes a people — and what promotes their continuation? To the Emperor Augustus, Roman men who refused to marry are no better than brutes, thieves…
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Nicola Buskirk
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But live when you are dead, in little parcels of your selves.
The cornerstone of civilization — the Emperor Augustus delivers his First Speech to the Married Men, tying the glory of Rome to the success of the…
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Nicola Buskirk
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I know that you are not made of celestial ether, but he doesn’t
One American icon to another: writer John Steinbeck writes to Marilyn Monroe on behalf of his nephew (1955).
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Nicola Buskirk
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I am born in a rank which recognizes no superior but God (1193)
Returning from the Third Crusade, Richard the Lionheart is captured and stands judgment before the Holy Roman Emperor.
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Nicola Buskirk
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