By Ecce Verum
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01.15.25
It's come up hundreds of times before. But it's back again. Brace yourself for yet another proposal to nix the electoral college. In the middle of December, U.S. Senate Majority Leader Dick Durbin (D-IL) published a press release announcing a new proposal to abolish the way Americans have always elected their president. Joining him were Senators Brian Schatz (D-HI) and Peter Welch (D-VT).
By Ecce Verum
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01.10.25
I still remember a particular airline flight I took in high school. I was heading out of Colorado after an academic event, dutifully reading a literature assignment to make the most of the travel time. Part-way through the trip, however, I put a bookmark in my volume and got into conversation with a lady sitting in my row.
By Ecce Verum
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01.07.25
The last election cycle may be shrinking in the rearview mirror, but briefly flash back with me to the sights, sounds, and smells of it all. You probably had at least someone remind you to "vote early," right? But did anyone ever mention "voting late?" Well, there's a legal battle going on right now about a loophole in Illinois law that allows ballots to be received up to two weeks after election day.
By Ecce Verum
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12.30.24
In our last couple articles, we examined two car commercials which both came out recently. Jaguar's ad was one of the most grotesque I've seen, but Volvo's was one of the most beautiful. Take a look at those last two articles for a detailed analysis of each ad, as well as my commentary on how dangerous it is to glorify the abnormal, and how refreshing it is to glorify the normal. After all, we all live in the "normal world" created by God.
By Ecce Verum
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12.26.24
Last time, we examined a shocking ad recently put out by Jaguar, the luxury car manufacturer. An ad which glorifies the abnormal and urges viewers to "delete ordinary" and "copy nothing."
By Ecce Verum
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12.23.24
Jaguar, the British luxury vehicle manufacturer, recently released an unsettling 30-second advertisement. For a creepy half-minute, a group of more-or-less androgynous characters in idiosyncratic costumes and hairstyles exit a yellow elevator and take up various unsmiling poses in front of the camera. They eventually congregate by a boulder in the middle of a pink-tinted desert landscape to stare uncomfortably into your soul.
By Ecce Verum
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12.04.24
We all send emails because they are faster and more convenient than snail mail. We don't usually suspect that snail mail would send us to the hospital. However, for precisely this reason, one state representative is pushing for an electronic mail delivery system in the state's correctional facilities. In Illinois prisons, physical mail can get you high.
By Ecce Verum
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11.18.24
Last time, we discussed a recent piece in The Atlantic entitled "The Elite College Students Who Can't Read Books."
By Ecce Verum
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11.14.24
This past October, The Atlantic published an article that is as alarming as its title sounds: "The Elite College Students Who Can't Read Books."
By Ecce Verum
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11.02.24
In a couple of previous articles, we looked at an intriguing push for male contraceptives. In that article, I emphasized that the push for male contraceptives seems to be yet another example of The Lie—the idea that men and women are exactly alike in every way.
By Ecce Verum
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10.31.24
Gallup recently published some statistics about Americans’ trust in public institutions. The numbers aren't pretty. Less than half of Americans trust the legislative branch, the executive branch, the judicial branch, political candidates, the federal government's handling of domestic or international problems, or the mass media.
By Ecce Verum
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10.24.24
Have you ever encountered someone who criticized you for letting your Christian beliefs determine how you vote? “Politics shouldn’t be about religion. Stop imposing your morality on others.
By Ecce Verum
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10.23.24
We then asked why male contraceptives might be in such high demand. To do this, we went on a brief excursion about The Lie: Women are exactly like men, and should be treated exactly like them. We also talked about how The Lie never really works, because men and women will always be fundamentally different. And when we crash into this fact, we often turn on the men to “level the playing field.”
By Ecce Verum
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10.21.24
A recent Axios article reports that a new "birth control pill" for men has started its early phase human trial. This once-a-day pill would inhibit a process involving vitamin A, which is implicated in male sperm production.
By Ecce Verum
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09.28.24
Last time, we explored a simple way to show someone that "pro-life except for rape and incest" is not really pro-life. Just ask him if the same circumstance that he thinks justifies abortion would also justify the killing of a two-year-old.
