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  • The 5 Best Books on Education

    The 5 Best Books on Education0

    There are a lot of books on education, but few that are very good. Here are five books that cut to the chase of what education is and how it should be done: 1) Paideia: The Ideals of Greek Culture, by Werner Jaeger. Jaeger was a German scholar writing in the early to mid-20th century. He

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  • How Shirley Temple Responded to Sexual Harassment

    How Shirley Temple Responded to Sexual Harassment0

    Shirley Temple was probably the greatest child star, not only of her generation, but of any generation. She was not just popular, she was phenomenally, outrageously popular. No one hadn’t heard of her. Of course, her popularity was at its height in the 1930s. But even for someone growing up in the 1960s, 70s and 80s, she

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  • What the ‘Jesus Never Existed’ Folks Often Overlook

    What the ‘Jesus Never Existed’ Folks Often Overlook0

    Every Christmas, we get a spate of articles from major newspapers and magazines with titles such as “Who was the real Jesus?” or “Who was the Historical Jesus,” or, “The Virgin Birth of Jesus: Fact or Fable?” Surely they have run out of novel titles by now. This year’s entry was from the Washington Post:

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  • Charles Schulz’s Pushback Against Secularism

    Charles Schulz’s Pushback Against Secularism0

    We often think of the secularization of Christmas as a very recent thing. But its origins go back to the nineteenth century with the writing of “The Night Before Christmas,” and the Thomas Nast version of Santa Claus: the jolly, plump, white-bearded rendition we know today. Irving Berlin’s famous song “White Christmas,” written in 1942

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