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A Very Long Six Months

October 19, 2023

One of my favorite all-time movies is a French film starring the captivating Audrey Tautou, Une Si Longue Dimanche des Fiançailles or A Very Long Engagement. If you have not seen it, you’re a lesser person and should check it out. Epic. Reason for the mention here is simply that, per the old joke that…
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FreedomFest Review

July 28, 2021

Day 1 Sioux Falls is bigger than I expected. Almost 200,000 people. Very nice downtown. Aside from a generally weird, smelly and unhelpful Walgreens clerk, the people are extremely friendly and welcoming. Economy is clearly booming here. Labor shortage is acute, post-Covid hysteria. Restaurants and shops have reduced hours and seating. A lot of very…
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FreedomFest Bound

April 9, 2021

It’s official: I’ll be speaking at the great Mark Skousen’s FreedomFest in South Dakota in July. I’m scheduled to debate the great libertarian Doug Casey on the subject of liberty and Catholicism. Will be standing room only… I’ll also be serving on a panel about Bitcoin. Catholicism and cryptocurrency go well together. Finally, I’m honored…
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On the Gilded Age Robber Barons…And the Debate I LOST!

August 5, 2020

I heroically took the PRO side in a debate against my brilliant students on the resolution: The so-called “Robber Barons” were malevolent crooks who bilked the American public to get rich. Well, that did not go well–and I lost! Hear it all here.      

Dishonest Abe

July 8, 2020

The American History iconoclasts are very busy these days, not unlike the Jacobins during the French Revolution, they switch seamlessly from guillotining statues to cancelling people. This is what the modern, Western left has become. While the sane and healthy rightfully lament that statues of Stonewall Jackson, Robert E. Lee, and yes even Frederick Douglass…
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Metanoia Debate: America in the 20th-21st Centuries

April 30, 2019

*Decide the resolution for the epic, Oxford-style, APUSH debate: *Poll closes at midnight, May 7. After the total votes have been tallied, APUSH class members will vote in a separate poll (posted here as well) as to which side PRO or CON they would prefer. **Debate date set for Friday, May 17 (N.B. That is…
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Metanoia Debate: On the Removal of the Lincoln Memorial

February 25, 2019

Forget all of the hubbub about the decommissioning of Confederate memorials, the Ole Miss basketball team, etc. What about the Lincoln Memorial? Shouldn’t it be decommissioned, and unceremoniously at that? Hear an incredibly insightful debate on the topic here.

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