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  • 2 weeks ago | catholicworldreport.com | Tod Worner |Catherine Harmon

    The Hell of OverthinkingThinking is good, but overthinking is not. It warps our sense of “what is” and it perseverates when we should let go. "The Thinker in The Gates of Hell" at the Musée Rodin in Paris. (Image: Jean-Pierre Dalbéra / Wikipedia)I swear to you that to think too much is a disease, a real, actual disease.—Fyodor DostoevskyYears ago, in a pique of weight lifting enthusiasm, I stumbled across an intriguing interview in Muscle and Fitness Magazine.

  • 1 month ago | wordonfire.org | Tod Worner

    He was hideous. With an oversized skull that bulged forth frontally with multi-lobed bony protuberances, a chin that jutted rightward dragging his mouth down in a permanent frown, scales and scars dominating half of his face, and awkward wisps of hair pronouncing (and not obscuring) his deformity, John Merrick seemed a monstrosity. Was it any wonder that he was exploited in a London freak show? Was it any surprise he was hunted, harassed, and hounded by brutal street urchins?

  • Nov 23, 2024 | post-gazette.com | Tod Worner

    There we sat. Two internal medicine residents, a pharmacy student, and me. And all I had in my hands was a short story by the 19th century Russian writer Anton Chekhov. Every Tuesday in my clinic, it is my privilege to have “chalk talks” with residents, medical students, and the occasional pharmacy student. I offer a mix of lessons that go beyond the management of heart failure, the treatment of diabetes, and the evaluation of syncope.

  • Nov 13, 2024 | theimaginativeconservative.org | Tod Worner

    What did William F. Buckley’s “Firing Line” teach me about our modern democracy? Simply this: It is not too late to reclaim intelligent and competent, moral and visionary political conversation. Nor is it too late to right the direction of our flagging democracy. The tyranny of a prince in an oligarchy is not so dangerous to the public welfare as the apathy of a citizen in a democracy. —MontesquieuIt is the greatest of all mistakes, to do nothing because you can only do little.

  • Nov 1, 2024 | wordonfire.org | Tod Worner

    The tyranny of a prince in an oligarchy is not so dangerous to the public welfare as the apathy of a citizen in a democracy. —MontesquieuIt is the greatest of all mistakes, to do nothing because you can only do little. —Sydney SmithPolitics is too serious a matter to be left to the politicians. — Charles de GaulleIn 1988, the University of South Carolina hosted William F. Buckley, Jr.’s Firing Line for a debate: Resolved: That the Right Is Better Able to Deal with the Soviets than the Left.

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