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When Fathom launched we promised there would likely be a piece in every issue with which you would disagree. Though our centre of gravity remains the two-state paradigm, our ambition was always to mak...

The Hamilton Center at the University of Florida looks to broaden and deepen civics education at the university level.

Many of the DeSantis administration's educational reforms have stressed a return to basic civics and a focus on the development of Western civilization. Here's how the University of Florida is developing a curriculum that could serve as a blueprint while emphasizing civil discourse.

Commentary The normal give and take of democratic deliberation between citizens, while not always achieved in practice, has ...

The natural human propensity for clear and simple answers constantly tempts to false dichotomies and lopsided choices. Sometimes the complexity is clear. Should we develop our personal lives or our professional lives? Should we organize our finances with a view to the short term or the long term? Should we care for our bodies or cultivate our minds? In these cases, it easy to see that the answer is both; the hard part is coordinating, adjusting to circumstances, and striking the right balance. B...

Historically and across cultures, marriage has been the institution that unites a man and woman as husband and wife to be father and mother to children born of their union, providing their offspring with the distinctive contributions of paternal and maternal care and influence. That understanding of marriage shaped its structuring norms, including the norm of sexual complementarity that has been found always and everywhere.

<p>At <a href="https://religionnews.com/2022/10/28/is-antisemitism-still-the-third-rai… News Service</a>, columnist Mark Silk looks at recent antisemitic episodes and flunks them for rehashing such old, familiar anti-Jewish tropes. What is frightening is that these slurs against the Jewish people have such a long shelf life, they must be passed on from generation to generation somehow.

Hoo boy! Its bonus podcast week. This week’s fiery Three Whisky Happy Hour episode takes up the argument left over from last week about whether conservatism—and especially the new “national” variety that is sparking so much energy and enthusiasm right now—should conceive of its mission as Burkean in character—as “restorationist” or revolutionary. We cover a lot of ground, with Lucretia beating up on me for my suspicious Burkean sympathies, while

By Peter Berkowitz Real Clear Wire https://www.realclearwire.com/ TEL AVIV – “The only thing worse than the Iran that exists now is an Iran with nu

Mike Pompeo, who has been a soldier, businessman, congressman, CIA director and secretary of state, says he thinks that ever since he was a 17-year-old assistant manager of a Baskin-Robbins