Acton Unwind
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Acton Unwind is a weekly roundtable discussion of news and current events through the Acton Institute's lens on the world: promoting a free and virtuous society and connecting good intentions with sound economics. Host Eric Kohn is joined by Acton Institute experts for an exploration of news, politics, religion, and culture.
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The Enduring Power of Magazines
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May 13, 2024 |
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Will Fraternity Bros Save America?
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May 06, 2024 |
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Decamping Campus Encampments
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Apr 29, 2024 |
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Did OJ Simpson Break American Culture?
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Apr 22, 2024 |
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Squatters’ Wrongs
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Apr 15, 2024 |
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The Rise of Anti-Semitism Is the Fall of American Liberty
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Apr 08, 2024 |
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Key Bridge Collapse
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Apr 01, 2024 |
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DOJ Takes an Anti-Trust Bite Out of Apple?
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Mar 25, 2024 |
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Is the Clock Ticking for TikTok?
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Mar 18, 2024 |
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The Vibes of the Union Are Weird
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Mar 11, 2024 |
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Spice, Spice Baby
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Mar 07, 2024 |
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Baconator Arbitrage
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Mar 04, 2024 |
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Rumble in the Christian College Jungle
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Feb 26, 2024 |
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Lent So Hot Right Now
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Feb 19, 2024 |
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He Gets Us. But Do We Get 'He Gets Us'?
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Feb 12, 2024 |
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Look What You Made Us Do (Discuss Taylor Swift)
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Feb 05, 2024 |
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Messing with Texas
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Jan 29, 2024 |
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Javier Milei vs. Davos Man
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Jan 22, 2024 |
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What Fr. Sirico Saw at Jimmy Lai’s Trial in Hong Kong
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Jan 15, 2024 |
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Plagiarism and Its Defenders
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Jan 08, 2024 |
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Jimmy Lai on Trial in Hong Kong
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Dec 18, 2023 |
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Remembering Henry Kissinger
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Dec 11, 2023 |
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Poverty: Not One Solution, But Many
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Dec 04, 2023 |
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Milei Wins the Day in Argentina
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Nov 27, 2023 |
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You Don’t Gotta to Hand It to Osama bin Laden
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Nov 20, 2023 |
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MrBeast of Burden
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Nov 13, 2023 |
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WeWork Don’t Work Anymore
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Nov 06, 2023 |
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The Meltdown Over the Robert E. Lee Meltdown
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Oct 30, 2023 |
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They Don’t Speaker for Us
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Oct 23, 2023 |
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Anti-Semitism Rears Its Ugly Head
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Oct 17, 2023 |
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Saving St. Louis & Terror in Israel
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Oct 09, 2023 |
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Synodality in Reality
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Oct 02, 2023 |
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Did Compassionate Conservatism Kill Welfare Reform?
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Sep 25, 2023 |
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Has Organized Labor Overplayed Its Hand? Again?
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Sep 18, 2023 |
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What Is Populism’s Place in American Conservatism?
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Sep 11, 2023 |
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To Indict, Swipe Right?
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Aug 28, 2023 |
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A Crisis in Masculinity?
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Aug 21, 2023 |
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Is the New Right Fascist?
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Aug 07, 2023 |
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Barbenheimer and the Future of the Movies
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Jul 31, 2023 |
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Conservatism Is Alive and Well
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Jul 24, 2023 |
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SCOTUS Says “No” to Compelled Speech, Again
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Jul 17, 2023 |
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The Violent Faith of Cormac McCarthy
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Jul 10, 2023 |
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When Is a Coup Not a Coup?
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Jun 26, 2023 |
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Patrick Deneen and Our Otherworldly Postliberal “Future”
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Jun 19, 2023 |
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The Trump Indictment and Whataboutism
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Jun 12, 2023 |
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The Responsibility of Business Is Business
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Jun 05, 2023 |
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Under the Light of La Sombrita
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May 22, 2023 |
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What’s Next for Pakistan and Turkey
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May 15, 2023 |
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TikTok Bans the Acton Institute’s The Hong Konger Documentary
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May 08, 2023 |
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Housing, Fake Drake, and ‘Everything-Bagel Liberalism’—All at Once!
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May 01, 2023 |
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National Conservatism Revisited
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Apr 10, 2023 |
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How Not to React to the Trump Indictment and the Nashville Shooting
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Apr 03, 2023 |
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Tick Tock for TikTok?
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Mar 27, 2023 |
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The French Enlightened on Pensions
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Mar 20, 2023 |
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SVB Is DOA
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Mar 13, 2023 |
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What Are You Searching for, Dave?
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Feb 27, 2023 |
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Thoughts, and Especially Prayers, Matter
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Feb 20, 2023 |
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What’s Wrong with Journalism Today?
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Feb 13, 2023 |
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Popping the China Balloon Story
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Feb 06, 2023 |
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Ticketmaster Haters Gonna Hate, Hate, Hate
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Jan 30, 2023 |
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The Conscience of a Defenseman
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Jan 23, 2023 |
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Are We Mishandling Biden’s Mishandled Documents?
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Jan 16, 2023 |
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Remembering Benedict XVI
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Jan 09, 2023 |
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China Relents On Zero-COVID Policies
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Dec 19, 2022 |
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How Important Are the “Twitter Files” and Twitter Itself?
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Dec 12, 2022 |
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Ukraine Moves to Ban Russian Orthodox Church
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Dec 05, 2022 |
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Sam Bankman-Fried's Fall & The Sentencing of Elizabeth Holmes
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Nov 21, 2022 |
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What the Midterm Elections Say About American Civic Health
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Nov 14, 2022 |
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Is Affirmative Action History?
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Nov 07, 2022 |
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Musk sinks his teeth into Twitter
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Oct 31, 2022 |
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Truss Interrupted
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Oct 24, 2022 |
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The Iranian Uprising (Almost) No One Is Talking About
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Oct 17, 2022 |
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Columbus or Indigenous People's Day: Why not both?
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Oct 10, 2022 |
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Into the Metaverse
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Oct 03, 2022 |
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What happened at NatCon3?
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Sep 26, 2022 |
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The New York Times Takes Aim at Orthodox Jewish Education
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Sep 19, 2022 |
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Remembering Queen Elizabeth II & Mikhail Gorbachev
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Sep 12, 2022 |
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Is there a case for canceling student loan debt?
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Aug 29, 2022 |
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Afghanistan, one year later
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Aug 22, 2022 |
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No one is above the law or beneath contempt in Trump raid
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Aug 15, 2022 |
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The future of Roe isn’t as simple as pro-lifers may think
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Aug 08, 2022 |
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A recession by any other name still stinks
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Aug 01, 2022 |
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Political violence and the attack on Lee Zeldin
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Jul 25, 2022 |
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Bonus episode: Stranger Things 4
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Jul 22, 2022 |
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How old is too old to be president?
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Jul 18, 2022 |
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Shinzo Abe and Boris Johnson fall
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Jul 11, 2022 |
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Bloody Independence Day
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Jul 05, 2022 |
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All about Dobbs
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Jun 27, 2022 |
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Is it ethical to watch Saudi-backed golf?
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Jun 20, 2022 |
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Partisan vitriol threatens the economy—and lives
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Jun 13, 2022 |
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How do we grapple with Uvalde?
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Jun 06, 2022 |
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The evangelical crackup
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May 31, 2022 |
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The Orthodox Church and Ukraine
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May 23, 2022 |
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The arrest of Cardinal Zen
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May 16, 2022 |
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The future of abortion in America
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May 09, 2022 |
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Why are we uncomfortable with religion in the public square?
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May 02, 2022 |
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Fall of the House of Mouse in Florida?
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Apr 25, 2022 |
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Blunt reaction to Elon Musk’s Twitter takeover
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Apr 18, 2022 |
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The populist right rises (in France)
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Apr 11, 2022 |
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"Boys" and "Girls" banned from Disney World
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Apr 04, 2022 |
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“Best Assault at the Oscars” Goes To…
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Mar 28, 2022 |
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Lia Thomas and the nature of the human person
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Mar 21, 2022 |
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The ballooning problem of inflation
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Mar 14, 2022 |
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The church’s response to Ukraine and Russia
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Mar 07, 2022 |
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The post–Cold War world order ends
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Feb 28, 2022 |
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Parents’ public school revolt comes to San Francisco
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Feb 21, 2022 |
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Truckin’ and Blockade’n
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Feb 14, 2022 |
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The Georgetown Law crying game
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Feb 07, 2022 |
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Stephen Breyer, inconsequential consequentialist justice
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Jan 31, 2022 |
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Help desperately needed for American employers, American Jews, and Joe Biden's rhetoric
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Jan 17, 2022 |
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Manhattan DA’s light-on-crime approach is a threat to meaningful criminal justice reform
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Jan 10, 2022 |
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Omi-chronic COVID panic
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Dec 20, 2021 |
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Not-so transitory inflation and crisis time for global Catholicism
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Dec 13, 2021 |
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How overturning Roe v. Wade can reset the civil order
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Dec 06, 2021 |
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Omicron, here we go again
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Nov 29, 2021 |
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Thinking clearly in a time of ideology
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Nov 22, 2021 |
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Whip inflation now, again
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Nov 15, 2021 |
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Is national conservatism the future of the right?
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Nov 08, 2021 |
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Is a parent-driven revolution brewing in public education?
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Nov 01, 2021 |
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The growing threat from China
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Oct 25, 2021 |
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Netflix stands up to the woke mob over Dave Chappelle
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Oct 18, 2021 |
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The revolt against COVID-19 vaccine mandates
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Oct 11, 2021 |
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J.D. Vance wants to seize the wealth to own the libs
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Oct 04, 2021 |
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What obligations do we have to refugees?
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Sep 27, 2021 |
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What the Met Gala says about the state of our elites
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Sep 20, 2021 |
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Are we prepared for exponential technological growth?
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Sep 13, 2021 |
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The Texas abortion law & the social responsibility of business
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Sep 07, 2021 |
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We are not cogs for social engineers
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Aug 30, 2021 |
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Have the Taliban changed?
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Aug 23, 2021 |
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The Taliban retake Afghanistan
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Aug 16, 2021 |
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They're not gonna pay rent
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Aug 09, 2021 |