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  • How Your Name Can Predict How You’ll Vote

    How Your Name Can Predict How You’ll Vote0

    I don’t know about you, but I’ve noticed a decided absence of political yard signs in my neighborhood this election season. Such an occurrence may be the result of general disinterest in the two main candidates… or maybe my neighbors have suddenly been bit by the Minnesota Nice bug, which requires people to keep their

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  • How You Can Help ‘Intellectual Takeout’ Restore the Culture

    How You Can Help ‘Intellectual Takeout’ Restore the Culture0

    When my third grandchild was recently born, I was wonderfully reminded why I am involved with Intellectual Takeout as the leader of its parent organization, the Charlemagne Institute: Both these things point to the things that really matter in life. Our articles are signposts toward truth. When reading an article on education, a reader might

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  • How Would Our Ancestors View the 21st Century?

    How Would Our Ancestors View the 21st Century?1

    • August 21, 2018

    What is the worst thing about living near an open sewer? It is not that you sicken at the stench of it every time you leave your front door. It is that the noisome vapors are so pervasive, and you have lived with them so long, you no longer notice it. What is the worst

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  • How Would Dostoevsky Have Responded to the Smartphone?

    How Would Dostoevsky Have Responded to the Smartphone?0

    “I don’t know how to make friends without my phone,” a teenager told me last summer when I found myself enforcing a policy banning screens at a student seminar I was helping with. I was a little surprised by this line of reasoning, but I’ve encountered it more than a few times since from teens

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  • How Working Moms Are Discovering They Can Homeschool

    How Working Moms Are Discovering They Can Homeschool0

    “I would love to homeschool my kids, but I have to work.” Homeschooling parents hear this statement all the time, sometimes during casual conversations about various education options, or more often, when a friend or stranger confides that schooling isn’t working so well. I’m not going to lie, homeschooling requires a lot of effort, presence,

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  • How Women Got the Vote: You Might Be Surprised

    How Women Got the Vote: You Might Be Surprised0

    One hundred years ago this month, the Women’s Suffrage Amendment became the 19th Amendment to the Constitution of the United States. This amendment is simple and reads as follows: The right of citizens of the United States to vote shall not be denied or abridged by the United States or by any State on account

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