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In one of his Blackford Oakes novels, William F. Buckley, Jr. had a character crack a Wagnerian joke along these lines: What is Siegfried? Siegfried is the opera that begins at 7 p.m. and when […]

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True knowledge of God can only be had in the midst of a life for which all work is undertaken based on prayer and all […]

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