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  • ‘Get Your Guns, Boys! They’re Robbing the Bank!’

    ‘Get Your Guns, Boys! They’re Robbing the Bank!’0

    If you haven’t heard, the city of San Francisco is setting out to rid itself of terrorism. Domestic terrorism, that is. “Great!” many of us would say. “A city should work hard to keep its citizens safe.” The trouble is, San Francisco has an interesting definition of what constitutes a domestic terrorist. In a recent

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  • ‘Freud’s Last Session’: Discovering Truth with C.S. Lewis and Sigmund Freud

    ‘Freud’s Last Session’: Discovering Truth with C.S. Lewis and Sigmund Freud5

    “From error to error, one discovers the entire truth.” So goes the final line of Freud’s Last Session (2023), a real-life quote from famous psychoanalyst Sigmund Freud, played in the new film starring Anthony Hopkins opposite Matthew Goode’s portrayal of Christian apologist C.S. Lewis. Freud, a committed atheist, is presented in a fictitious scenario, inviting

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  • ‘First Man’ Omission of the Flag Will Not Rewrite US History

    ‘First Man’ Omission of the Flag Will Not Rewrite US History0

    The director and the star of “First Man,” a forthcoming film about Neil Armstrong and Apollo 11, are congratulating themselves for leaving out one of the most dramatic moments in spaceflight and, indeed, 20th-century history, namely, astronaut Armstrong’s planting the American flag on the moon. The reason: We mustn’t be “jingoistic.” What’s next? Omitting the

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  • ‘Fear of Missing Out’ is Not a New Condition

    ‘Fear of Missing Out’ is Not a New Condition0

    Everyone has seen it happen. Suddenly, in the middle of a conversation at an event, a person feels compelled to answer an “urgent” message, frequently without bothering to offer any explanation. This compulsive behavior is triggered by the fear of missing out on some social interaction which the person judges as critical. Courtesy and good

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  • ‘Fair and Equitable’ Discipline Policies: Unfair to Most Students?

    ‘Fair and Equitable’ Discipline Policies: Unfair to Most Students?0

    If you’ve been following education news lately, you’ve likely heard about the complaints against Success Academy Charter Schools in New York. The complaints come from parents of children with disabilities whose poor behavior eventually caused them to be removed from the school: “Consistent with SACS’ [Success Academy Charter Schools] philosophy, Success FG [a specific Success

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  • ‘Empathy’ Might Be the Most Overused Word in the English Language (See Chart)

    ‘Empathy’ Might Be the Most Overused Word in the English Language (See Chart)0

    “You completely lack empathy.” This was what a longtime acquaintance said to me a few months ago after I shared on Facebook a quote from Jeffrey Tucker, a prominent libertarian scholar, which touched on federalism and Donald Trump’s rescinding of an executive order on transgender discrimination. The comment stuck in my craw.  I place high

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