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  • Is ‘Stuff’ Paralyzing Today’s Children?

    Is ‘Stuff’ Paralyzing Today’s Children?0

    I’m thinking of getting rid of most of my kids’ toys. I’m simply tired of the messes. I thought at first that we just needed to teach our kids more discipline; that in addition to our thorough weekly clean we needed to be more rigid about overseeing morning and evening cleans. But ain’t nobody got

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  • Is ‘devouring’ books a sign of superficiality in a reader?

    Is ‘devouring’ books a sign of superficiality in a reader?0

    Last year, a reporter in the Guardian described how the Man Booker Prize judges spent ‘a summer… devouring novel after magnificent novel’, culminating in their selection of ‘a (baker’s) dozen’. This is nothing unusual. The language of eating is often used to describe reading habits. If pressed for an explanation, one might say that to

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  • Is ‘Closed for Thanksgiving’ Trending?

    Is ‘Closed for Thanksgiving’ Trending?0

    Last year, it was the small business retailers who balked at opening their doors on Thanksgiving Day. This year, it’s the largest mall in the U.S. On Wednesday morning, Mall of America officials announced that they will not participate in the Black Friday creep which has overtaken Thanksgiving in recent years. According to The Minneapolis

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  • Is ‘Antiracism’ a Grift?

    Is ‘Antiracism’ a Grift?3

    Henry Rogers was born in Queens in 1982, to middle-class parents deeply involved in civil rights activism. After completing journalism and African American Studies programs at several universities, including Temple University where he completed his Ph.D., Rogers began a career as a university lecturer, taking up various posts along the East Coast in history and

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  • Is ‘Speed Reading’ For Real?

    Is ‘Speed Reading’ For Real?0

    When I was a boy, “speed reading” was all the rage among the adults I knew—the ones who read books, that is. I envied them. Learning to read had been hard enough, but I couldn’t seem to read fast enough to allow time for other things I also wanted to do. If, as I now

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  • Is ‘Our Democracy’ Failing Our Country?

    Is ‘Our Democracy’ Failing Our Country?3

    Asked, “What is an American?” many would answer, “An American is a citizen of the United States.” Yet, at the First Continental Congress in 1774, 15 years before the U.S. became a nation of 13 states, Patrick Henry rose to proclaim that, “British oppression has effaced the boundaries of the several colonies; the distinctions between

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