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  • Are American Schools Killing Interest in Reading?

    Are American Schools Killing Interest in Reading?0

    In a recent exchange of small talk, I asked a friend how the last school year had gone for his child. He replied that it had gone relatively well except for one thing. School, he explained, was killing his child’s interest in reading. When I asked how that was happening, he noted that his child

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  • Are American Schools Creating a ‘Stupefied’ Generation?

    Are American Schools Creating a ‘Stupefied’ Generation?2

    In recent months, it has been reported that studying and performing Shakespeare has dramatic effects on the academic performance of young students. In fact, one school in Australia found their exam scores increased more than 40 percentage points after Shakespeare lessons were incorporated into the curriculum. Because of these dramatic effects, I took notice of

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  • Are America’s Best Days Behind Us?

    Are America’s Best Days Behind Us?0

    America’s best days might be behind us, argues Eduardo Porter in a piece for the New York Times. According to Porter, the new book The Rise and Fall of American Growth by economist Robert J. Gordon makes a convincing case that American growth, prosperity, and innovation are significantly slowing down. So much so that today’s

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  • Are All Men Created Equal?

    Are All Men Created Equal?3

    Ideology is political religion, said the conservative sage Russell Kirk. And what is the defining dogma of the political religion, or ideology, of America in 2022? Is it not that, “All men are created equal”? Yet, as with every religion, a basic question needs first to be asked and answered about this defining dogma of liberal

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  • Are All Court-Created Rights Now in Peril?

    Are All Court-Created Rights Now in Peril?2

    Perhaps the solution is to have court decisions discovering new rights subjected to national referenda, so the whole nation can say “Yea” or “Nay” after they are handed down.

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  • Are AI Poems Better Than Human-Written Poems?

    Are AI Poems Better Than Human-Written Poems?7

    A recent study published in Scientific Reports uncovered that the average reader couldn’t tell the difference between AI-generated poetry and human-written poetry. Most of these readers even preferred the AI works to the human ones. In the study, researchers asked Open AI’s ChatGPT-3.5 to write poems in the style of famous poets such as Walt

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