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  • How Homeschoolers Defeated California’s Push to Take Power From Parents

    How Homeschoolers Defeated California’s Push to Take Power From Parents0

    They came by the hundreds, one newspaper said—“perhaps thousands.” Some traveled hours, others waited hours, all for the opportunity to protest one of the most outrageous homeschooling bills ever introduced: California’s AB 2756. Spilling out into crammed hallways and overflow rooms, families poured into the Statehouse just for the opportunity to spend a few minutes speaking

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  • How Holiday Spending Reveals a Deeper Financial Crisis

    How Holiday Spending Reveals a Deeper Financial Crisis0

    For many Americans, Christmas is one of the happiest times of the year, whether spending time with family or watching children tear open gifts. But the holidays also represent a stressful time for families – especially when it comes to money. According to a recent Gallup poll, 37% of Americans anticipate spending at least $1,000 on

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  • How Hitler Could Regret He’d ‘Been So Kind’ in a Letter Days Before His Death

    How Hitler Could Regret He’d ‘Been So Kind’ in a Letter Days Before His Death1

    In a bunker in Berlin on April 27, 1945, just three days before he’d take his own life—either by cyanide or the pistol (historians still debate which killed him)—Adolf Hitler reflected on his shattered dream of creating a thousand-year Third Reich. As the Red Army encircled the German capital, the 56-year-old Hitler, weary and defeated,

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  • How Historical Revisionism Hides ‘Oppenheimer’s’ Secrets

    How Historical Revisionism Hides ‘Oppenheimer’s’ Secrets8

    Since its release in the summer of 2023, critics and fans have not stopped talking about Christopher Nolan’s Oppenheimer. But the more I watch and read people’s views on the film, the more I suspect that a large number of us completely missed the artistic thrust of the project. Oppenheimer, based on the Pulitzer-winning book

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  • How Historical Illiteracy Fuels Political Polarization

    How Historical Illiteracy Fuels Political Polarization0

    Greater knowledge of the past would help improve America’s public discourse. Once again, President’s Day has come and gone and Americans spent little time reflecting on their past leaders—in part, because Americans know so little history at all, even about the country’s most well-known Founding Fathers. For example, in a 2012 survey commissioned by the

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  • How Higher Education “Studies” Men

    How Higher Education “Studies” Men0

    In 2013, Stony Brook University (part of the SUNY system) revealed plans for a new “Center for the Study of Men and Masculinities.” Since I’m a Stony Brook grad, I was quite interested in this development. Would the new Center do anything to enhance the school’s reputation for scholarship? I didn’t think it would, but

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