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  • Compelled Speech Is Hitting Close to Home

    Compelled Speech Is Hitting Close to Home0

    George Orwell wrote his dystopian novel “1984” more than 70 years ago. In it, he described a totalitarian state in which “Big Brother” created the language “Newspeak” to control the thoughts of its citizens.   “1984” is becoming more and more prescient by the day.  Earlier this month, The Denver Post fired one of its

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  • Compassion and Tolerance Without Faith and Virtue Can Be Deadly

    Compassion and Tolerance Without Faith and Virtue Can Be Deadly0

    It’s often said that “tenderness leads to the gas chambers.” Derived from a passage in Flannery O’Connor’s work, “Mystery and Manners,” the full quote in context gives a solid lesson on how compassion untethered to virtue can lead to disaster and ruin: If other ages felt less, they saw more, even though they saw with

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  • Compare the Goals of English Classes in 1912 to Today’s if You Want to Understand Why Literacy Is Plummeting

    Compare the Goals of English Classes in 1912 to Today’s if You Want to Understand Why Literacy Is Plummeting0

    • June 7, 2018

    I recently spent an evening with a group of college students. Like most young people their age, they were engaged in their studies and eager to share about semesters spent abroad and future plans. But then the topic changed. Instead of talking about pop culture or other common subjects, these young people started discussing… their

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  • Companies Want to Teach Your Children Values

    Companies Want to Teach Your Children Values0

    About ten years ago Dove released a short film with the slogan “talk to your daughter before the beauty industry does”. It warned of the detrimental effects of unrealistic body image expectations communicated to young girls through advertisements. Reading this article in The Atlantic, I couldn’t help but agree that in recent times advertisers have even

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  • Community: The Missing Element in Modern Schools?

    Community: The Missing Element in Modern Schools?0

    I’ll admit it. I’ve always had a secret fondness for stories about one-room schools. Why? Perhaps it’s the simpler time. Perhaps it’s the fact that they seemed to value good education and hard work. Perhaps it’s the family-like structure and community they fostered. That last element is especially missing from today’s schools, which ship busloads

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  • Communist Survivor Warns Americans Against Taking Freedom for Granted

    Communist Survivor Warns Americans Against Taking Freedom for Granted0

    Too few have learned about the horrors of communism. Fewer still have escaped it and lived to tell the tale. Amy Phan West is one such survivor. In 1984, Phan escaped Vietnam’s communist dictatorship by concealing herself in the bottom of one of her father’s fishing vessels before it set out to sea. Escape wasn’t

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