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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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  • How Shakespeare Helped this Australian School Top All Others

    How Shakespeare Helped this Australian School Top All Others0

    In recent years, parents have grown increasingly concerned about the state of their children’s schools. To put it frankly, students no longer seem to be exiting our halls of learning with a thorough, well-rounded slate of knowledge. Why does this happen? A possible answer to that question was recently provided by The John Colet School

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  • How Sensitivity Killed Common Sense

    How Sensitivity Killed Common Sense0

    If you were to name one quality which has come to be highly sought after and demanded in today’s world, what would it be?  For my money, I would say that sensitivity fits the bill. As such, a white person who chooses to wear hoop earrings or style his hair in dreadlocks is guilty of

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  • How Schopenhauer Can Help You Understand (and Overcome) Your Midlife Crisis

    How Schopenhauer Can Help You Understand (and Overcome) Your Midlife Crisis0

    Despite reflecting on the good life for more than 2,500 years, philosophers have not had much to say about middle age. For me, approaching 40 was a time of stereotypical crisis. Having jumped the hurdles of the academic career track, I knew I was lucky to be a tenured professor of philosophy. Yet stepping back

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  • How School Districts Weaponize Child Protection Services Against Uncooperative Parents

    How School Districts Weaponize Child Protection Services Against Uncooperative Parents0

    Schooling is adept at rooting out individuality and enforcing compliance. In his book, Understanding Power, Noam Chomsky writes: “In fact, the whole educational and professional training system is a very elaborate filter, which just weeds out people who are too independent, and who think for themselves, and who don’t know how to be submissive, and so

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  • How San Fransisco’s Housing Policy Makes it Harder for the Homeless

    How San Fransisco’s Housing Policy Makes it Harder for the Homeless0

    I recently highlighted California’s counterproductive restrictions on private efforts to feed the homeless. But the state’s policies aren’t just inhibiting the bottom-up activities of non-profits and charities. They’re also restricting potential solutions via entrepreneurial investment. Alas, many municipalities have severely restricted new residential development, causing the housing supply to diminish and the cost of living to soar. In a

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