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    • An Age of Agency Awaits Us B

    By Ian Rowe - July 6, 2022

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    By Ian Rowe – There is a third way: a view of human opportunity simultaneously more practical and more optimistic than our current alternatives. I call it agency.… agency goes beyond one’s capacity simply to do or achieve …Agency is not free will alone, it is the force of your free will, guided by moral discernment. Agency is the character-based strength that young people can tap into as a source of morally directed power, and our children do not achieve this by themselves. … they need social support from vibrant, well-functioning, families, schools, houses of worship, nonprofit organizations, and community groups.  Read More

    Higher Education’s Deeper Sickness A

    By John M. Ellis - Nov. 13, 2017

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    By John M. Ellis – Colleges need to be accredited; state universities answer to governing boards. Accrediting agencies and governing boards are created through a political process. What if voters were to insist that those agencies demand answers to some elementary questions? …How can a department of political science that excludes half the spectrum of viable political ideas be competent to offer degrees in the field? How can a history curriculum be taught competently when only one extremist attitude to social and political questions is present in a department? …How can these extraordinary deficiencies deserve either accreditation, or support by state and federal funds?… Read More

    Awakening From Nihilism: The Templeton Prize Address A

    By Michael Novak – May 5 1994

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    By Michael Novak – Longer article – This essay is adapted from an address presented by Mr. Novak at Westminster Abbey on May 5, 1994. He is the twenty-fourth recipient of The Templeton Prize for Progress in Religion.

    As we draw near the close of the twentieth century, we owe ourselves a reckoning.

    This century was history’s bloodiest. From this revered and mortally threatened Abbey some fifty years ago, one could hear the screech of falling bombs. At a time they didn’t choose, and in a way they didn’t foresee, more than a hundred million persons in Europe found their lives brutally taken from them. An earlier Templeton laureate, Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, has agreed that, beyond the war dead, 66 million prisoners perished in the Soviet labor camps. Add the scores of millions dead in Asia, Africa, and the other continents since 1900.

    Nor is there any guarantee that the twenty-first century will not be bloodier.

    And yet the world has drawn four painful lessons from the ashes of our century. First, even under conditions of nihilism, better than cowardice is fidelity to truth. From fidelity to truth, inner liberty is wrested. Read More

    Inside the Woke Indoctrination Machine B

    By Andrew Gutmann and Paul Rossi - Feb. 11, 2022

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    By Andrew Gutmann and Paul Rossi – After watching 100 hours of leaked video, we now fully grasp the danger of this ideology in schools. Last spring we exposed how two elite independent schools in New York had become corrupted by a divisive obsession with race, helping start the national movement against critical race theory. Schools apply this theory under the guise of diversity, equity and…  Read More