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  • WOW! Plato’s ‘Tyranny’ Sounds EXACTLY LIKE America Today!

    WOW! Plato’s ‘Tyranny’ Sounds EXACTLY LIKE America Today!0

    • September 27, 2016

    Philosopher George Santayana’s line has become cliché, but it’s so damn true: “Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it.” Well, perhaps if more Americans today read Plato (like they used to), then our country wouldn’t be repeating the same mistakes he warned us about 2,400 years ago.   In Book VIII

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  • Would-Be Tyrants Capture Language to Control Thought

    Would-Be Tyrants Capture Language to Control Thought0

    Today’s counter-revolution against liberty is being fought on a number of fronts in American society. One is on college and university campuses across the country, where the ideology of “political correctness” is strangling freedom of speech and smothering intellectual controversy and debate.  Critical to this campaign is the capture of language. It is through our

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  • Would You Survive Ancient Rome?

    Would You Survive Ancient Rome?0

    Ancient Rome was the most advanced civilization in the world for centuries, but it wasn’t exactly an easy place to live. Most of the basic freedoms and “necessities” we take for granted did not exist. Could you survive if you were transported back in time to Ancient Rome?  The quiz below might offer you some

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  • Would You Have Worn the Yellow Star?

    Would You Have Worn the Yellow Star?0

    Recently Daniel Lattier wrote about an elementary school in Edina, Minnesota, where public school children “are being trained to see the world through the lens of race.” Robert Jones, writing in The New York Times, warns that our distinctly American identity is in danger of being lost. Jones is not talking about the loss of

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  • Would You Have Wanted This Curriculum in High School?

    Would You Have Wanted This Curriculum in High School?1

    • August 6, 2015

    There’s a growing consensus that the curriculum of many American high schools has been dumbed down, and that we need to expect more of our students. In response, some schools are returning to a curriculum that approximates the rigor of times past. One is Trinity School at River Ridge – a private school in Minnesota

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  • Would You Have Saved Jews from the Nazis? Your Family Background Tells the Answer.

    Would You Have Saved Jews from the Nazis? Your Family Background Tells the Answer.0

    Every year the victims of the Nazi Holocaust are remembered on the anniversary of the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising. In 2018, this anniversary falls on April 12th. Countless tragic stories have emerged from the Holocaust. But so have many other inspiring ones, such as those of Irena Sendler, Corrie ten Boom, and Marcel Marceau, individuals who

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