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  • How the Chinese Are Erasing the Tiananmen Square Massacre From History

    How the Chinese Are Erasing the Tiananmen Square Massacre From History0

    One free man will say with truth what he thinks and feels amongst thousands of men who by their acts and words attest exactly the opposite. It would seem that he who sincerely expressed his thought must remain alone, whereas it generally happens that every one else, or the majority at least, have been thinking

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  • How the Bible Won a WWI Battle

    How the Bible Won a WWI Battle0

    Several weeks ago, I made the claim that a culturally literate person knows the Bible. Because the Bible was a part of common culture for so many centuries, those who fail to familiarize themselves with its contents cut themselves off from deeper historical and cultural understanding.  I was reminded today just how valuable that knowledge

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  • How the $15 Minimum Wage is Pushing New York’s Car Washers to the Margins

    How the $15 Minimum Wage is Pushing New York’s Car Washers to the Margins0

    As protests for a $15-per-hour minimum wage continue to rage across the country, cities like Seattle and Minneapolis and states like California and New York have begun to adopt such schemes, leading to a range of unfortunate case studies in economic destruction. Despite the popular narrative that such laws will benefit the most vulnerable and put the powerful in check, the negative consequences have tended to

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  • How the ‘Spiritual but Not Religious’ Are Driving Society’s Civic Decline

    How the ‘Spiritual but Not Religious’ Are Driving Society’s Civic Decline1

    Polling in the U.S. reveals an all-time high of those who identify as religious “nones,” individuals who claim no allegiance to any faith. Many of the “nones” are part of a growing group of Americans who declare they are “spiritual but not religious.” And many in this group fall into the millennial age group or younger

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  • How the ‘New Math’ is Ruining Education

    How the ‘New Math’ is Ruining Education0

    By now, you’ve probably seen some of the complaints on the internet about the “new math” being promoted by the Common Core Standards. Many grade-school children—including, for instance, comedian Louis CK’s children—have come home with math homework that is virtually indecipherable to their parents. The goal behind the new math, it seems, is to encourage

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  • How Tetris Reveals the Stunning Power of the Human Brain

    How Tetris Reveals the Stunning Power of the Human Brain0

    We know the human brain is more complex than the world’s most powerful computers. The most recent attempt to use a supercomputer to simulate the activity of a human brain showed that it took 40 minutes to process the data of a single second of brainwaves. Still, it’s often difficult to see the amazing powers

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