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The article focuses on speech "The Strenuous Life," as Theodore Roosevelt identified "the American character" with "the life of toil and effort, of labor and strife." Topics include considered that novelist Émile Zola argued a similar point in a speech praising vigorous effort informed by social science.

A personal narrative is presented which explores the authors experience of attending a conference at the St. Olaf Institute for Freedom and Community, which is dedicated to "free inquiry and meaningful debate of important political and social issues" in in Northfield, Minnesota.

The author discusses children considered as god's perfections and mentions modern social science tethered to economic theories which measures children as calculus unsullied by reality. Topics discussed include arguement of philosopher Michel Henry on maturation and growth manifested by life, period of infantile vulnerability of children after birth and God's sustaining grace of children.

The article discusses the lessons in the statecraft of Pope John Paul II. Topics include the culture-first approach to history and statecraft, emergence of psychological approaches to statecraft which resulted from the decline of political philosophy and rise of social science in the West, and commentary on the public impact of Pope John Paul II.

The article informs about European émigré Chaim Grade in the pantheon of great Yiddish writers of the twentieth century with a decades-long rivalry between the eponymous Hersh, a traditional Jewish scholar cultural accommodation. Topics include version tradition's triumph occurs in social-scientic and evolutionary terms; and Orthodoxy is celebrated broad life for its adherents Mere Judaism without rabbinic reasoning, theological demonstration, or standard apologetics.