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Recover the Imagination, Recover the Founding
Featured Glen Moots 1/4/24 Featured Glen Moots 1/4/24

Recover the Imagination, Recover the Founding

In a country so dominated by popular culture, those getting older lose touch with the young.

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Can We Be Less Mean?
Review and Reflection Jeff Polet 12/21/23 Review and Reflection Jeff Polet 12/21/23

Can We Be Less Mean?

Last week I offered up Part 1 of this two-part response to David Brooks’ Atlantic essay “How America Got Mean.”

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Reading the Other
Featured Sam Negus 12/21/23 Featured Sam Negus 12/21/23

Reading the Other

C. S. Lewis’s introduction to a modern translation of St. Athanasius’s On the Incarnation offers an apologia for reading old books.

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An Empire Over One's Self
Heritage Jeff Polet 12/14/23 Heritage Jeff Polet 12/14/23

An Empire Over One's Self

It is true that women were not in attendance at The Constitutional Convention, but that doesn’t mean they didn’t exercise some influence behind the scenes.

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Elites and “Our Democracy”
Review and Reflection Joseph M. Knippenberg 12/14/23 Review and Reflection Joseph M. Knippenberg 12/14/23

Elites and “Our Democracy”

In recent years, we’ve heard a lot of talk about assaults on “our democracy” and about protecting “our democracy,” usually from people we might call “elites” in government and the news media.

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Has America Gotten Mean?
Review and Reflection Jeff Polet 12/14/23 Review and Reflection Jeff Polet 12/14/23

Has America Gotten Mean?

Last week I mentioned that I would be commenting upon a recent David Brooks’ essay. 

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Betty Ford: Champion of Breast Cancer and Addiction Awareness
Featured Richard Gunderman 12/7/23 Featured Richard Gunderman 12/7/23

Betty Ford: Champion of Breast Cancer and Addiction Awareness

In the middle decades of the 20th century, there were topics that people just didn’t talk about in polite company.

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Commencement Addresses and Virtue
Heritage Jeff Polet 12/7/23 Heritage Jeff Polet 12/7/23

Commencement Addresses and Virtue

By my calculations I have attended over 40 graduation ceremonies.

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Lost Symbols and the Fraying of Our National Fabric
Heritage Gary L. Gregg 12/7/23 Heritage Gary L. Gregg 12/7/23

Lost Symbols and the Fraying of Our National Fabric

Once a fabric begins to fray, the continuing unraveling of the garment is almost inevitable.

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The Civic Virtue of Sports
Featured Lee Trapanier 11/30/23 Featured Lee Trapanier 11/30/23

The Civic Virtue of Sports

This college football season is probably the last one where geography still matters in the organization of the sport.

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Franklin and Croly on Human Nature
Heritage Jeff Polet 11/30/23 Heritage Jeff Polet 11/30/23

Franklin and Croly on Human Nature

In many ways, political differences can be boiled down to one simple question: what is your view of human nature?

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Reflections on Family Gatherings
Review and Reflection Jeff Polet 11/30/23 Review and Reflection Jeff Polet 11/30/23

Reflections on Family Gatherings

Thanksgiving, now past, and Christmas and New Year’s, now near at hand, bring with them the prospects of family gatherings.

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Proclamation 4405—Thanksgiving Day, 1975
Heritage President Gerald R. Ford 11/23/23 Heritage President Gerald R. Ford 11/23/23

Proclamation 4405—Thanksgiving Day, 1975

Two hundred years ago the frontier colonies of America braced for a long and determined conflict with the strongest military power in the world.

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Thanksgiving Proclamation of 1789
Heritage President George Washington 11/23/23 Heritage President George Washington 11/23/23

Thanksgiving Proclamation of 1789

With this Address President Washington officially began the tradition we celebrate today.

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Thoughts On Giving Thanks
Review and Reflection Jeff Polet 11/23/23 Review and Reflection Jeff Polet 11/23/23

Thoughts On Giving Thanks

On this day of thanksgiving, it seems worth our time to reflect on the virtue of gratitude.

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Thinking About Equity
Review and Reflection Jeff Polet 11/16/23 Review and Reflection Jeff Polet 11/16/23

Thinking About Equity

I recently asked a friend in our student life division if he had seen a picture showing three persons of differing heights standing behind a fence trying to watch a baseball game.

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We’ll Always Have Casablanca
Featured Jeff Polet 11/16/23 Featured Jeff Polet 11/16/23

We’ll Always Have Casablanca

“This is the way they say you should take part in warfare and battle, Socrates,” says Callicles at the start of the dialogue Gorgias.

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Citizens of the Things at Hand
Featured Jason Peters 11/9/23 Featured Jason Peters 11/9/23

Citizens of the Things at Hand

Is it permissible on a website devoted to the legacy of President Gerald R. Ford to admit a strong revulsion to presidential elections?

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Should We Trust in Numbers?
Review and Reflection Jeff Polet 11/9/23 Review and Reflection Jeff Polet 11/9/23

Should We Trust in Numbers?

The fundamental thing about any technology is that it alters our relationship to the world.

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“4.5 Acres of Sovereign Territory Anywhere in the World:” The USS Gerald R. Ford
Featured Henry T. Edmondson III 11/2/23 Featured Henry T. Edmondson III 11/2/23

“4.5 Acres of Sovereign Territory Anywhere in the World:” The USS Gerald R. Ford

Over three football fields in length, almost one football field in width, twenty-five stories high, serving15,000 meals a day, and powered by two state-of-the-art A1B nuclear reactors, the gargantuan USS Gerald R. Ford (CVN 78) is the largest warship in the world.

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