How to Understand the Tao Te Ching Without Actually Reading It
WEST CHESTER, Pa.–The Tao Te Ching, a book of ancient Chinese wisdom, is roughly 2,500 years old, but nobody has figured
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National Heteronormative Pride Day
If Voltaire had not said, “Define your terms and the argument ceases,” we would have to pretend that he had, if
ContinueJoe Biden: The Great Auk to the Rescue
WEST GOSHEN TWP, PA—The mascot of the Catholic prep school that Joe Biden attended is a large, extinct, flightless bird called
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WEST GOSHEN TWP, PA—Somerset Maugham wrote that people will forgive anything you do to them, but they seldom forgive anything you
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WEST GOSHEN TWP, PA—If you call tech support these days, you get a menu of three choices: Some chappie with a
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If I ever watch another minute of another NBA game, I hope the god that I don’t believe in strikes me
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The true conservative does not like anything to happen that has not happened before. He prefers old dogs, old friends, old
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WEST GOSHEN TWP, Pa.–Karma, the law of moral causation, was invented more than 2,500 years ago in Northern India to answer
ContinueMath, Gravity, and Speed Limits Reek of White Supremacy
WEST GOSHEN TWP, Pa.—Brooklyn College Professor of Math Education Laurie Rubel proclaimed recently on Twitter that the mathematical equation 2+2=4 “reeks
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WEST GOSHEN TWP, Pa.–If Peter Thiel isn’t truly gay because he supported Donald Trump; if Kanye West isn’t truly black for
ContinueThe Alt-Middle: the Silent White Majority
WEST GOSHEN, Pa.–White is a color that comes in many flavors. There are White Supremacists, White Nationalists, White Separatists, and other,
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WEST GOSHEN TWP, Pa.–The LGBTQ population of the United States is … a) 8.8%, b) 23.6%, c) 4.5%, d) way too
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COVID-19 is the gift pandemic that keeps on giving: a gleaming, unforgiving mirror that reflects the foibles, failures, and foolhardiness of
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WEST GOSHEN TWP, Pa.–A distressing number of Black Lives Matter “murals” have sprouted up recently like so many mushrooms out of
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ELVERSON, Penna. – “Dear Sir or Madam . . . ” Thus began the pet sitter’s letter, which my wife and
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