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  • An Amazing Thing Happened When Prisons Began Teaching Latin to Convicts

    An Amazing Thing Happened When Prisons Began Teaching Latin to Convicts0

    A little over a year ago, it was reported that Australian schoolchildren were suddenly making dramatic gains in a number of subjects. The largest advances came in reading, with students increasing their “reading age” by over two years on average. The secret behind these dramatic gains was a little program called Sound Training, which uses

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  • An Ad You Would Never See Today

    An Ad You Would Never See Today0

    • November 21, 2016

    Today, all fifty states in the U.S. have passed some form of anti-bullying legislation, and many school districts and colleges have extensive campaigns attempting to reduce it. Bullying is an unfortunate rite of passage that many of us have been subjected to at one point in our lives. But in the past two decades, the

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  • An Acute Outbreak of Moralitis

    An Acute Outbreak of Moralitis0

    The ‘silly season’, they call it – when Parliament has closed for the summer holidays, and the newspapers scramble for titbits. Last week the media pounced on a commentary by the recently-resigned Foreign Secretary Boris Johnson, the flaxen-haired politician pretending to be an essayist (or is it the other way round?). Don’t ban the burqa, Boris

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  • An Absolutely Shocking Statistic about America’s Education System

    An Absolutely Shocking Statistic about America’s Education System0

    • May 11, 2017

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  • Amy Schumer’s Crudity is Boring, Not Clever

    Amy Schumer’s Crudity is Boring, Not Clever0

    In the last several years, comedienne Amy Schumer has burst on the national scene and enjoyed a decent amount of success. Like many of today’s comedians, Schumer’s humor capitalizes upon crass and crude subjects, which the Los Angeles Times recently described in the following way: “Schumer’s renown for obliterating narrow ideas about female sexuality, double

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  • Amy Schumer: Unlikely but Persuasive Defender of Marriage

    Amy Schumer: Unlikely but Persuasive Defender of Marriage0

    Amy Schumer seems like an unlikely critic of the sexual revolution. But in her new memoir, The Girl With the Lower Back Tattoo, the often ribald comedian writes of her parents’ marriages (three apiece) and divorces in a way that reads like fodder for a Dr. Laura book about family values. “I’ve had UTIs that lasted

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