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  • Are we creating Men without Chests?

    Are we creating Men without Chests?0

    Much can be said and has been said about modern education. The catchphrase that seems to capture it best is ‘college and career ready’. But what does that even mean? What does it mean to be prepared? As we watch college students now requiring safe spaces and therapy due to partiers wearing sombreros or a

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  • Are We Boring Students to Death?

    Are We Boring Students to Death?0

    I had an interesting conversation with a 12-year-old young man the other day. When I asked him about school, he explained how he never learned anything and had decided that it wasn’t worth it to even try anymore. Instead, he was becoming one of the “bad kids” and making life miserable for his teachers. But

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  • Are We Blindly Accepting Preschool without Evidence?

    Are We Blindly Accepting Preschool without Evidence?1

    Last fall we shared a new bit of preschool research conducted by the Peabody Research Institute at Vanderbilt University. The research found that Tennessee’s state-funded Voluntary Prekindergarten program made little difference in giving children a head start in learning. In fact, the time in preschool actually seemed to make children fall behind their peers who

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  • Are We Becoming a Victimocracy?

    Are We Becoming a Victimocracy?0

    Most of us learned—or should have learned—in school that the United States is a republic, not a democracy. Therefore, we do not have direct rule by the demos, the “mob” of common people, but by elected representatives and leaders. Of course, some cynically deny that our nominal governments actually rule. Our “real” rulers, they usually

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  • Are We Becoming a Nation of Gollums?

    Are We Becoming a Nation of Gollums?0

    This week, I met a good friend of mine at a local restaurant, the first time we’d got together since before the onset of the pestilence. He is a Presbyterian pastor and a great lover of the works of J.R.R. Tolkien. It was, in fact, Tolkien who had introduced us to each other, in the

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  • Are We at the Beginning of an Age of Barbarism?

    Are We at the Beginning of an Age of Barbarism?0

    Giambattista Vico (1668-1744) was one of the most significant philosophers of history of the modern era. In his major work The New Science (1725), Vico famously outlined what he believed to be the recurring cycle of human civilizations (using Greece and Rome as his primary examples), and his outline of the three ages of this

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