Podcast: Can We Handle the Truth?

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The week’s stories were so big you have to wonder: can we take it?

This Week in Common Sense, December 30, 2019 — January 3, 2020.

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Righteous Recalls
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Good and Bad News
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Intentionally Confounding Incumbents
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Keep Up the Pressure
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Spring’s Decisions
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Abolish. Or Set in Stone
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Paul Jacob knows what to do with hypocrisy on at …Read More »
Destroying Dane Farming
November 12, 2024
Paul Jacob on Europe’s ongoing suicide over “greenhouse gases.”Read More »
Disaster Relief Pass-Over
November 11, 2024
Paul Jacob on partisanship at FEMA.Read More »
Exemplary Rejections
November 8, 2024
Paul Jacob celebrates voters in three states who protected their …Read More »
Not Now
November 7, 2024
Paul Jacob on political lessons to be learned — or …Read More »

The Quadrennial Distraction
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The Reign of Trickery
SharingArkansas State Sen. Jon Woods’s reign of trickery is ending. …
A Second Life for Limits
Paul Jacob looks back and ahead on term limits.
Reform Follows Function
SharingWaiting for this week’s Supreme Court decision on Obamacare, which …
The Arrogance Award
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A Fraction of a Reaction
Sharing“A little dab’ll do ya.” That was from Brylcream, not 23andme. …
Cuban Slave Doctors
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Who’ll Stop the Wars?
Sharing“Why were you the lone voice out there going after …
Congress’s King
SharingPolitics today reveals a troubling dialectic. Thesis: President Trump boasts that …
Toxic Smile?
SharingSmirking is a subset of smiling. But what is a grimace? Nick …

Once the most potent moral figure in Western culture was Jesus Christ. Believer or unbeliever, you took your ethical bearings from him, or professed to. To question his morals was to expose yourself as a monster. Now, the most potent moral figure in Western culture is Adolf Hitler. It is as monstrous to praise him as it would once have been to disparage Jesus. He has become the fixed reference point by which we define evil.
Alec Ryrie, Unbelievers: An Emotional History of Doubt (November 2019). See also “The End of the Age of Hitler,” First Things, November 2024.

— Alec Ryrie