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  • David McCullough on What’s Wrong with History Education Today

    David McCullough on What’s Wrong with History Education Today3

    Some of you have read historian David McCullough’s books, which include 1776, John Adams, and Truman. At the very least, you’ve seen his books on the shelves at Barnes & Noble. In an interview conducted by the Wall Street Journal in 2011, McCullough had some very interesting critiques of modern history education, which I share below.

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  • Maybe Liberals Are Just Better Utilitarians

    Maybe Liberals Are Just Better Utilitarians0

    We keep hearing that conservatism in America is in crisis, that its messages don’t resonate, that it continues to lose political ground. These woes are typically ascribed the conservative movement’s lack of a dominant narrative. But I actually think conservatism does have a dominant narrative. In fact, it’s the same dominant narrative of liberalism. The

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  • Without Self-Education, the West Will Probably Die

    Without Self-Education, the West Will Probably Die0

    In one of my favorite scenes from the movie Seven, Morgan Freeman’s character gets a guard to let him into a library late at night so he can conduct research. While the five members of the library’s night staff are sitting around a desk playing cards he says to them: “Gentlemen, gentlemen… I’ll never understand.

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  • Why We’re So Afraid

    Why We’re So Afraid0

    The title of a recent Rolling Stone article claims that “we’re living in the age of fear.” It explains: “If this election cycle is a mirror, then it is reflecting a society choked with fear. It’s not just threats of terrorism, economic collapse, cyberwarfare and government corruption—each of which some 70 percent of our citizenry

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