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Teaching Children to Embrace the Difficult Delights of Life
- Education, Family, Featured, Uncategorized
- June 24, 2025
Were most Americans illiterate before the creation of our public education system in the 1830s? That seems to be a popular assumption, but is it true? If you’re looking for statistics, they’re notoriously hard to get when it comes to literacy rates in past centuries. Most historians of early American history have gravitated toward signatures on
READ MOREBy now all of you have heard or seen Trump’s slogan of “Make America Great Again.” The slogan is a timely attempt to rally the still-patriotic contingent of U.S. citizens who hold to some level of American exceptionalism. But since first hearing the slogan I’ve had a nagging thought lingering in my head: Maybe America
READ MOREWhen Americans use the term “liberal” today, they are usually describing a person or group that holds political or moral views associated with the Democratic Party or the “Left.” But it was not always so. In fact, this contemporary usage is the result of an etymological evolution—or devolution, depending on whom you ask. As a
READ MOREOn Wednesday afternoon at the University of Texas at Austin, several students engaged in an act of protest. They strapped on dildos. The phallus-inspired action was in reaction to Texas’ new campus-carry law, which allows people with licenses to carry concealed handguns on all of state’s public university campuses. At the same time, as the
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