In 1801 President Thomas Jefferson responded to a group of Connecticut merchants who objected to his appointment of a new collector of customs duties — the equivalent of tariffs. The prior holder of that office — Elizur Goodrich — had...
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Sun, 20 Apr 2025 02:31:08 +0000When the theory of evolution was put forth by Alfred Wallace and Charles Darwin in 1859, biological science was in its embryonic stage. Naturalists (the precursors of biologists) had been content with simply describing and classifying species (to be sure,...
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Sun, 20 Apr 2025 02:31:06 +0000Most war films try to help us understand war. Warfare does something else. It dares to admit that it may make no sense at all. Directed by Alex Garland and co-written with former Navy SEAL Ray Mendoza, whose memories form the bedrock...
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Sun, 20 Apr 2025 02:26:54 +0000On April 14, 2025, Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton expanded an investigation into EPIC City, asking officials in Plano, Richardson, Wylie, and Josephine to disclose communications related to the project. This came after remarks from Yasir Qadhi, a prominent scholar connected...
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Sun, 20 Apr 2025 02:20:54 +0000Christ has been painted and sculpted by the greatest artists in the world, each in their own way, guided by their talent and their era. And there’s one thing that seems common to all: the merciful and sorrowful eyes, those...
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Sun, 20 Apr 2025 02:20:53 +0000Easter for faithful Christians is not about bunnies and the bloom of spring. It is about the resurrection of Jesus Christ as something infinitely greater. How important is it? In what is likely the earliest surviving creedal profession of the...
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Sun, 20 Apr 2025 02:20:51 +0000Many years ago, during a late-night walk through Oxford’s beautiful Botanical Gardens, two men discussed whether the life and death of Christ was a fairy story. Both men agreed that indeed it was: one man, an atheist literature professor, averred...
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Sun, 20 Apr 2025 02:20:49 +0000A Story of Bogus Virtue When I was in my early twenties, I met a rabbi who worked as a kosher slaughterer. He was an old-fashioned, pious man who had grown up in Poland and escaped to the U.S. shortly...
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Sun, 20 Apr 2025 02:20:46 +0000The United States is the world’s largest economy, in terms of GDP, with a recent value of $27.72 trillion. What explains American economic success? The answer is quite simple: free markets that transcend local, state, and national lines. As the...
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Sat, 19 Apr 2025 02:16:43 +0000Ta-Nehisi Coates, in his 2023 book, The Message, based on a 10-day West Bank trip, makes broad claims about Israel’s treatment of its Arab citizens. He focused his rhetoric on demonstrating that Israeli practices amount to apartheid by showing parallels...
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