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The Future of Reading ([link removed])

by Wessie Du Toit

From the June/July issue ([link removed]) : In the vast majority of societies that have existed, most people had neither the ability nor the opportunity to read, and would have found literacy of little use anyway. Thus the decline of reading in our day represents a move toward the historical norm, not away from it.
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God and Woman at Cornell ([link removed])

by Mary Eberstadt

There were pieces of “common wisdom,” on campus and elsewhere, that I started to wonder about—for example, the idea that women were victims. This notion made no intuitive sense—because coming from where I came from, I didn’t feel like a victim. I felt like the luckiest person anyone knew.
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Obergefell Must Go ([link removed])

by Robert P. George

As we mark the ten-year anniversary of Obergefell, those of us who embrace the traditional conjugal conception of marriage have cause to be hopeful. We should certainly resist the temptation to view the redefinition of marriage as a permanently settled issue.
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We Are All Gay Now ([link removed])

by Stephen G. Adubato

The dominant cultural message has been that it is better for men to be passive and vulnerable than to cultivate their more properly masculine traits in virtuous ways. When the male abdicates headship in heterosexual pairings, women step in to fill the role.
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Finding Sanctuary in Jerusalem ([link removed])

by Bella M. Reyes

Most of those who came to the hospice had no interest in the religious life of the sisters, nor any connection to the Catholic Church or the Christian faith. But they came because they knew, through decades of tradition and word of mouth in the German-speaking community, that this was a place of refuge.
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