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Defining our love of country

Dozens of Ukrainians, many of them students, have died since the outbreak of the Euromaidan and the 2014 Ukrainian revolution. However, Ukraine seems a world away, and news from that part of the world is often diluted by time, space, and bias. So when I met a young man from there, I jumped at the...

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Metaxas’s commencement speech misses the point

The graduating class of 2014 might not even have been there. One need only read the transcript or watch the video of Eric Metaxas’s speech at May’s commencement to realize there was only a single mention of the graduates seated before him. That mention came at the very beginning of the address. For the remainder...

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Four more years: Obama’s second inauguration

It started well. Incredibly well. A senator from Utah mentioned to me afterward that the President’s introductory paragraph “could have been written by good ‘ole Dr. Arnn.” However, just like the weather, it all went downhill from there. The remainder of the speech could be compared to an ugly casserole, full of watered-down Dewey, Croly,...