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  • How To Make Sure Your Kids’ School Is Properly Teaching Them

    How To Make Sure Your Kids’ School Is Properly Teaching Them0

    Every year, news commentators from across the political spectrum decry the fallen state of American education. The tripod once known as reading, ‘riting, and ‘rithmatic is still crucial to all learning, yet survey after survey, test after test, reveals dismal results in student performance. Following the release of this data comes the finger pointing. Universities blame secondary

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  • How to Make Presidential Debates Serve Voters, Not Candidates

    How to Make Presidential Debates Serve Voters, Not Candidates0

    Presidential debates are not debates at all. They provide candidates with opportunities to deliver their own pre-scripted messages, largely unchallenged. Ideally, presidential debate scholars agree, these events should help voters identify which candidate they agree with most on key issues, and, as other academic debate coaches put it, see how a candidate would “make decisions,

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  • How to Make Health Care Unaffordable and Inaccessible

    How to Make Health Care Unaffordable and Inaccessible1

    Whether it’s Medicare for All or some other variant of a single-payer plan, the leading 2020 Democratic presidential candidates are in agreement that more government control will make health care more affordable and accessible. The presumption behind these plans is that there is currently too much freedom in the health care industry, and only more

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  • How to Make Friends as a Lonely Adult

    How to Make Friends as a Lonely Adult0

    Late this summer I met with several recent college graduates for lunch. We were chatting away when one of them fired off a question that caught me by surprise. “Annie,” this young lady asked, “what did you do to make friends?” I suddenly realized the situation these girls were in. They were on their own

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  • How to Make America Smart Again

    How to Make America Smart Again0

    • March 15, 2019

    Over the past week America has been fascinated and appalled by the latest college admissions cheating scandal. Much of the attention has been focused on the bribing of coaches to get kids into school with fake athletic credentials. But the even more absurd part of the scandal is that parents were paying between $15,000 and $75,000

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  • How to Maintain a Partisan Friendship During an Election Year

    How to Maintain a Partisan Friendship During an Election Year0

    Throughout literary history, without concern for era or genre, there have been a slew of authors who happen to strike up long-lived friendships with fellow writers. Tolkien and Lewis, Emerson and Louisa May Alcott, and Twain and Ulysses S. Grant comprise a few exemplary pairs of writer-friends. However, one relationship among literary giants is often

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