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  • Why College Students Have More in Common with Non-PC Authors Than They Realize

    Why College Students Have More in Common with Non-PC Authors Than They Realize0

    Several years ago, I visited the two-room shack in Tupelo, Mississippi, in which Elvis Presley was born and in which he spent his childhood. To my great surprise, one of the few items hanging from the sparsely decorated walls of the home was a framed copy of Rudyard Kipling’s poem, “If,” which I knew well,

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  • Why College Graduates Still Can’t Think

    Why College Graduates Still Can’t Think0

    More than six years have passed since Richard Arum and Josipa Roksa rocked the academic world with their landmark book, Academically Adrift: Limited Learning on College Campuses. Their study of more than 2,300 undergraduates at colleges and universities across the country found that many of those students improved little, if at all, in key areas—especially critical

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  • Why Cicero Merits Renewed Attention

    Why Cicero Merits Renewed Attention0

    John Adams said of Marcus Tullius Cicero (106-43 BCE) that “All ages of the world have not produced a greater statesman and philosopher combined.” Anthony Everitt called him an “architect of constitutions that still govern our lives.” Thomas Jefferson said the Declaration of Independence was based on “the elementary books of public right, as Aristotle,

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  • Why Christians Should Read Detective Fiction

    Why Christians Should Read Detective Fiction1

    As summer hits its halfway point, many of you may be eagerly awaiting your upcoming beach vacations. And with the beach comes “beach reading,” from Tom Clancy to Danielle Steele and everything in between.  To many educated people, the phrase “beach reading” represents the quickest way to dismiss a book without attacking it outright. Just

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  • Why Christians Must Get Poverty and Inequality Right

    Why Christians Must Get Poverty and Inequality Right0

    Over the last two decades, global poverty has plummeted and the world’s poorest people have steadily climbed out of the shadow of death. Yet many Christians cannot distinguish between dire poverty and income inequality, falsely believe both are worsening, and oppose the very policies that have lifted the world’s poor out of malnutrition. “Why do

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  • Why Children Should Learn to Use Power Tools

    Why Children Should Learn to Use Power Tools0

    When I was about 10 years old, a friend and I attended a summer program for kids. One of the activities involved making a small wooden footstool. We were both quite thrilled with the project, but my friend grew less thrilled when she discovered that one of the adults saw it as his duty to

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