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  • How Trump is Retooling Politics for the 21st Century

    How Trump is Retooling Politics for the 21st Century0

      Donald J. Trump was the first candidate to become president of the United States without prior experience as a military leader, a politician or ever having held a senior government post. As he delivers his State of the Union address this week, the president has the lowest approval rating of any modern-day commander-in-chief. Yet

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  • How Trump Can Make a Beautiful, Cage-Free Border Deal

    How Trump Can Make a Beautiful, Cage-Free Border Deal0

    Dear President Trump,   You can make the greatest border deal the world has ever seen. This deal will unite everyone by rewriting the playbook of politics.   Instead of taxing a divided public to pay for a border wall, offer a plan that gives something to both sides of the debate. Where there is

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  • How Travel Teaches Humility

    How Travel Teaches Humility0

    “According to the law of custom, and perhaps of reason,” writes the great historian Edward Gibbon, “foreign travel completes the education of an English gentleman.” Gibbon was writing about the Grand Tour, a tradition among the sons of Britain’s landed gentry and the wealthy classes of Protestant Europe. Before taking up the responsibilities expected of

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  • How Toxic Masculinity Permeates the Intellectual Takeout Office

    How Toxic Masculinity Permeates the Intellectual Takeout Office0

    When the #MeToo movement was at its height some months ago, I threw my shoulders back, took a deep breath, and let loose with my own story of the “toxic masculinity” I have experienced while working as the sole female in an entirely male office.   Time has passed, and instead of seeing the toxic

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  • How Totalitarians Force Confessions From Innocent People

    How Totalitarians Force Confessions From Innocent People0

    I recently re-read George Orwell’s anti-Soviet fable Animal Farm for the first time since high school, and I found myself at a loss to explain one of the book’s darkest scenes to the student I was tutoring. In this scene, Napoleon (Orwell’s stand-in for Stalin) consolidates his power over Animal Farm (i.e. the Soviet Union)

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  • How Today’s Students Can Become Great Writers by Using Thomas Jefferson’s Methods

    How Today’s Students Can Become Great Writers by Using Thomas Jefferson’s Methods3

    During my high school years, a number of my friends were homeschooled kids who belonged to a particular accrediting organization. This organization required each student to write an annual research paper, the length of which corresponded to their grade (i.e. a 10th grade student was required to turn in 10 pages). Over the years, I

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