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For my children
I don’t mind if you make a mess, as long as you clean it up. I don’t mind if you explore, as long as you can find your way back. I don’t mind if you experiment, as long as you deal with your failures. I don’t mind if you do something your way, as long…
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The root sickness in our society
I think there’s a mistake being made in many corners of our culture. And it explains a lot. How conservatives failed to pass on their values, why the educational system is more essential to the character of a culture than its government, the decentralized and social nature of the current revolution in thought, all the…
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A letter to a pastor about Jonah
I’ve had some time to think about your sermon, Smithy. I think it was bold of you to try to thread some tricky needles. It’s unfortunate you have to spend so much time on such issues, when the real point of the story has little to do with them. Real or poetic, the point…
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The enigma of life
Children are the hand of the past reaching toward the future. The strange thing about our children is that they’re clearly their own thing, their own life. But the more you think about it, the more your realize there is only one life, and all we do is hand it on, not create it. …
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The origins of fear
Fear, or anxiety, is driven by two factors: unfamiliarity and helplessness. And it can attack and be attacked from both of those angles. Either increase familiarity and habit enough that dealing with the object of your fear becomes so banal and workaday that it loses its emotional power, or develop your own knowledge and…
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The price of victory
In response to a discussion of how the modern version of feminism took over the popular movement and became the dominant voice of female advocacy and identity in our culture. Third wave feminists have won. And now they’re all so happy! And as a result, all our social problems have declined, our children are…
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The value of risk
A system that cannot produce bad outcomes for someone is unlikely to produce good outcomes for anyone. Completely safe systems do not involve mechanisms and actions that interact with the world in any way significant enough to generate meaningful outcomes. And humans aren’t made for them. Or any living thing, really. …
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What should feminism be?
What should feminism be? Is there any good likely to come of embracing an overtly partisan interest? It seems that feminism should be, nothing more nor less, advocacy for the love of the feminine. Increasing the degree to which women and their femininity is valued. But feminism seems to mean something else. Hatred of the…
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Why did the Afghan war fail?
One massive reason Afghanistan failed is cultural. It doesn’t matter how many bad men you stop, if you don’t raise up good men in their place. Bad men will always be there, and good men have to be there to resist them or your cause will fail. Now, I don’t mean to be placing the…
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You will not forget
I couldn’t catch the tails of all the love songs that drift through the summer air. I couldn’t fit them in a jar or distill them and give them to you. I couldn’t find that catch, that thrill, that slow throb, and make it real between you and me. I couldn’t fit all those stories…
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