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  • How PC Moralism Cuts Us Off From Our Cultural Heritage

    How PC Moralism Cuts Us Off From Our Cultural Heritage0

    Anyone who has read classic literature knows that there are things in old books that offend our sensibilities. And this isn’t a new phenomenon either. Every generation sees something in the thought and writing of previous generations that it doesn’t like or that it finds offensive.    The difference today is not that there are

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  • Why Johnny Still Can’t Read

    Why Johnny Still Can’t Read1

    In 1955, prompted by the reading problems experience by the child of a friend, Rudolf Flesch wrote the book Why Johnny Can’t Read. The book became a huge bestseller and is still in print today.   Flesch realized that the reason many children were not learning to read was because of method of reading instruction

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  • When News Stories are about News Stories, Something has Gone Wrong.

    When News Stories are about News Stories, Something has Gone Wrong.0

    There are two kinds of news stories: There are news stories about something that happened, and there are news stories about news stories. When news stories are about news stories, that usually means that something has gone wrong.   The story about the Covington, Kentucky Catholic school students, who, according the original story, allegedly harassed

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  • Gillette and the Rise of Political Sycophancy

    Gillette and the Rise of Political Sycophancy0

    What is the deal with razor companies? First they put their products under lock and key, making it practically impossible to actually buy a razor, then they insult their customers.   No wonder beards are making comeback.   Gillette’s new commercial warning against toxic masculinity has attracted ridicule for alienating the very men who buy

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