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Opinion: Simone Biles, Uncle Screwtape, and the elite praise of “radical courage”

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In The Screwtape Letters, C. S. Lewis’s senior devil reminds his protégé that every age and every culture has its characteristic vices and virtues. It is the devil’s job to confuse men as to what […]

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