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  • Carl Sagan Warned Us About Government Schools Decades Ago

    Carl Sagan Warned Us About Government Schools Decades Ago7

    My wife and I recently met with the principal of the school our daughter attends to discuss her education future. My daughter, who turns 12 in a few days, wants to go to a different school in the fall, largely because many of her friends—who are a year ahead of her—are graduating to new schools.

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  • Why Hamlet Disappeared From the Stage in the Soviet Union

    Why Hamlet Disappeared From the Stage in the Soviet Union0

    William Shakespeare’s play Hamlet is considered by some to be the single greatest story ever written. Hamlet has it all: ghosts, sword fights, suicide, revenge, lust, murder, philosophy, faith, manipulation, and a climactic bloodbath worthy of a Tarantino film. It’s a masterpiece of both high art and sensationalism, the only play I’ve seen performed live three times. Not

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  • How the Media Became the Pentagon’s Plumbers

    How the Media Became the Pentagon’s Plumbers1

    Last month New York Times international correspondent David Philipps offered a mea culpa. “I just deleted a tweet that lacked nuance,” the two-time Pulitzer Prize winner wrote. Philipps, who in 2022 received the top award in journalism for his reporting on previously undisclosed US military strikes that killed thousands of civilians in Iraq, Syria, and Afghanistan, was

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  • Why Dietrich Bonhoeffer’s Mother Refused to Send Her Children to Germany’s Public Schools

    Why Dietrich Bonhoeffer’s Mother Refused to Send Her Children to Germany’s Public Schools12

    I know very little about Dietrich Bonhoeffer (1906-1945), the German theologian who was hanged in April 1945 by the Nazis for spying on and opposing Hitler’s regime. Embarrassingly little, actually. So when I recently saw at a bookstore Eric Metaxas’ biography of the Christian martyr—Bonhoeffer: Pastor, Prophet, Spy—I decided it was time to learn more

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