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Chris Boland
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June 18, 2025
Work Americans (Especially American Men) Won’t DoHeraclitus once stated, “a man never steps into the same river twice,” which implies that both the river and the man are continuously changing. The United States, and we as its citizens, are also constantly changing, but change can be man...
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June 14, 2025
Alasdair MacIntyre has died, but his philosophy of virtue should be resurrectedLast month, a philosopher died. His passing is remarkable because it confirms an assertion he had made decades ago. Alasdair MacIntyre observed that philosophy was dead, retreating beyond the horizon of relevance because of paths chosen from the Enli...
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June 4, 2025
The postmodern ‘Hunger Artist’On a clear, fall morning in 2009, a Colorado father called 911 to report that his six-year-old son had stowed away on a home-made helium balloon which had become untethered and was floating through the sky. The authorities scrambled aircraft and foll...
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April 26, 2025
Mass deportations without ICE enforcementWhile it is encouraging to see the Trump administration shut down the southern border and deport a few plane loads of violent, gang-affiliated illegal aliens, it is a drop in the proverbial bucket. There are, by most conservative estimates, between 2...
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April 20, 2025
The unintended message of ‘Adolescence’As the old joke goes, a Freudian slip is when you say one thing but mean your mother. A similar thing is happening with Adolescence, a recently released Netflix limited series, which is getting a lot of attention for all the wrong reasons. While t...
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April 11, 2025
Rethinking Reparations For The Living Who Deserve ThemEvery few years, a discussion surfaces regarding reparations for the victims of an institution that was dismantled 160 years ago. Beginning in the 1960s, mountains of legislation and federal policies have been enacted in penance for a sin to which no...
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September 7, 2024
Woke policies cost livesLike many people around the country, I have noticed that the roads and highways of my town have become more dangerous and that the number of fatal crashes and hit-and-run incidents seemed to be more deadly and frequent. I became curious and dug...
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September 5, 2024
Rising traffic deaths are the result of woke policiesLike many people around the country, I have noticed that the roads and highways of my town have become more dangerous and that the number of fatal crashes and hit-and-run incidents seems to be more deadly and frequent. I became curious and dug into t...
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March 25, 2022
Let's do lunchOlder generations are familiar with a photograph titled "Lunch atop a skyscraper" (see image, below), which captures twelve men seated on a flange beam 800 feet above the streets of midtown Manhattan. They are sitting thigh to th...
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August 15, 2021
Our Founders imagined they would suffer so their descendants would not“We are soldiers so that our sons can be farmers and their sons can be poets” is a quote often attributed to John Adams. He likely never uttered those words, but he did write something similar in a letter to a friend. While the sentiments...
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June 11, 2021
In dealing with the left, a life lesson from a liquor storeThe left's work culture makes many demands on Americans. We are coerced to contort our grammar to accommodate gender theory. We are instructed to accept promoting some people and demoting others based on race. We are commanded t...
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May 19, 2021
The equity movement distilled in a single studentChanges in how we organize society happen over decades and across generations. Looking back, we can see shifts in our attitudes that signal movements that find their full expression many years later. If we miss these signals, we...
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May 12, 2021
Watermelons and giraffesMy daughter was born in June 2008, in Hollywood, California, the same year California voters went to the ballot box to reject same-sex "marriage" by a significant margin. Over the course of the next seven years, court after court...
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May 4, 2021
Sam Harris and societal decayThis week, my parish will hold a funeral mass for a parishioner who was killed in last month's Indianapolis FedEx shooting. Eight people were murdered in cold blood. The common response to this and other ghastly acts of viol...
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May 1, 2021
Hard workOne recent morning while getting ready for work, I overheard a news broadcast in which a grown man, the subject of the story, was sobbing uncontrollably into his iPhone. The backstory was that he had recently qualified for a Professional G...
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April 7, 2021
Where are the men?In March 1964, the New York Times reported that dozens of people heard the anguished cries of 29-year-old Kitty Genovese as she was raped and murdered outside her Queens, New York apartment but did nothing. The Times wa...
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March 23, 2021
Covid And The Costs Of The Technocratic StateRecently I learned that a friend’s child was hospitalized following an incident of self-harm. The details surrounding this event will remain undisclosed for obvious reasons, but it motivated me to write about an overlooked tragedy of the past y...
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March 16, 2021
Truths, oaths, and affirmationsJohn Keats famously ended "Ode to a Grecian Urn" with the lines "'Truth is beauty, and beauty truth' — that is all / Ye know on earth, and all ye need to know." These lines from an early 19th-century Roman...
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March 8, 2021
Cesar Chávez would have hated the Biden administrationBiden has issued executive orders that ban enforcing immigration law while simultaneously inviting in a new wave of illegal aliens. These E.O.s also suspend deporting illegal aliens, even those awaiting trial for felonies and other serious...
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February 28, 2021
The Moral Lessons Of A Liquor Store In L.A.Like most people, I found disquieting the rioting, looting, and arson we saw almost nightly across America last summer. The scenes of chaos, violence, senseless acts of destruction, and thievery struck a chord with many people because we saw th...
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February 23, 2021
BLM is coming to a school near youSchool districts across America are voting to include Black Lives Matter in their primary and secondary school curricula. Because whether BLM is taught at all should largely be dependent on how it is taught, it's im...
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February 19, 2021
Wannabe Heroes In A Post-Heroic WorldWatching the carefully cultivated images of everyone from faux-tough-guy Chris Cuomo to the latest transgender activist, I was reminded of a conversation I had many years ago with “Doug,” an acquaintance in Hollywood. As we sat on the pat...
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February 15, 2021
Worshipping At The Altar Of PowerThe second half of the 18th Century – the Age of Enlightenment – saw two different revolutions. The American Revolution was predicated on individual liberty and the Judeo-Christian principles of virtue. The French Revolution was based on ...
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February 12, 2021
White Supremacy and the Dearth of IdeasMy wife was watching a TV program that caught my attention as I was walking through the room. It was an episode of Madame Secretary in which one of the protagonists is embedded in a White Supremacist organization to disrupt a pending attack. I commen...
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February 3, 2021
On Race, Yogi Berra’s Insight About Ignorance Might HelpFormer New York Yankees catcher and manager Yogi Berra is known for saying things that on the surface seem silly and shallow, but upon careful consideration have layers of meaning. One of those insights forces us to apply what we know about Black int...
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January 30, 2021
A Blackout In Which We Cancel The CultureThey say a fish is unaware of water. Analogously, we are unaware of the environment in which we live our lives. Insofar as we do consider our environment, it is usually in terms of the physical world; the air we breathe, the water we drink, the clima...
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January 20, 2021
Fauci, Cuomo and Postmodern LeadershipAbout a decade ago my wife, two-year-old daughter and I attended a birthday party in the Hollywood Hills. A thirty-something actress with some credits to her name was throwing a bash for her two-year-old daughter complete with petting zoo, two bouncy...