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The Outstater
Beckwith Is Right SOMEHOW, the Declaration of Independence has become controversial once more. When written, of course, it was highly so, laying out the rationale for a people to break free from what was then the default — an oppressive king and a state religion. But we had assumed — wrongly, it seems — that the…
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McGowan: A New Pope
by Richard McGowan, Ph.D. In the last 20 years of teaching business ethics, I asked my students to read Pope Leo XIII’s essay, “Rerum Novarum” (On the New Things). If they did the reading, they encountered ideas from John Locke and Adam Smith. Therefore, that the new pope chose to be named Pope Leo XIV bodes well,…
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Gough: A Cover-Up of a Cover-Up
By Kyle Gough To write “Original Sin: President Biden’s Decline, Its Cover-Up, and His Disastrous Choice to Run Again,” Jake Tapper and Alex Thompson conducted what is perhaps the most pertinent investigation in the American political theater since Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein broke the Watergate scandal. But unlike Woodward and Bernstein, who exposed President Nixon’s…