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Islands in the stream

3 June 2017

9:00 AM

3 June 2017

9:00 AM

Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr said ‘I would not give a fig for simplicity before complexity, but for simplicity after complexity I would give my life’.

The takeover from within of institutions by the political Left, the anti-Jewish and anti-Catholic biases of the media, the hyper-fragility of university students, the persecution of Christians by large corporations, and so on ad nauseam, all might seem to the insightful observer to be wheels turning within the larger wheel of the destruction of our culture.

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