The Devil’s Smile: Why We Keep Falling for Charismatic Monsters
The Devil’s Smile: Why We Keep Falling for Charismatic Monsters
“Beauty is only skin deep, but ugly goes clean to the bone.” — Dorothy Parker
They blow up marathons, execute political opponents, and leave families ruined in their wake. Yet somehow, society finds itself hypnotized by their faces. We make them into icons. We print their likeness on posters, frame them in soft lighting, and argue that they’re more than just what they did. …READ MORE…
WATCH: Trump speaks to Vietnam’s general secretary about negotiating on tariffs
President Trump said in a social media post that he spoke with the head of Vietnam’s ruling Communist Party about potentially cutting stiff new U.S. tariffs on imports from that country down to “zero” if the two nations can negotiate a deal. …WATCH HERE…
Book review: C.S. Lewis and the World He Warned Us About; A Prescient Vision from 1943
In 1943, in the midst of a world war and at the dawn of a technological era, C.S. Lewis published a slender but thunderous work titled The Abolition of Man. At the time, it was a philosophical defense of objective values against creeping relativism. Today, it reads like prophecy. …READ MORE…
NYT Reports On The Resistance
In the battle against government waste and fraud, the New York Times sides with waste and fraud. It corralled Coral (not Carol) Davenport (Smith Collège 1998) from her job of telling the world it will end because of climate change and pressed her to take on the Department of Government Efficiency. …READ MORE…
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