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  • ‘The Hobbit’ Turns 80

    ‘The Hobbit’ Turns 800

    “In a hole in the ground there lived a hobbit.” When Tolkien wrote these words, which would become one of the most famous and most memorable opening sentences in all of literature, he could not have known what literary power would be unleashed by his creation of the diminutive hole-dwelling creature, Bilbo Baggins. This year,

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  • ‘The Anxious Generation’ Has the Worst of Both Worlds

    ‘The Anxious Generation’ Has the Worst of Both Worlds0

    In a blockbuster Atlantic piece, “The Terrible Costs of a Phone-Based Childhood,” my Let Grow co-founder Jonathan Haidt says our culture is getting it all wrong when it comes to kids: We “underprotect” them in the virtual world and overprotect them in the real one. That’s the worst of both worlds if we want to

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  • ‘Summer Slide’ Solutions Focus on the Wrong Problem

    ‘Summer Slide’ Solutions Focus on the Wrong Problem1

    Now that schools are out across the country, headlines abound regarding the seemingly inevitable summer learning loss, or “summer slide.” The National Summer Learning Association, which promotes summer programming, particularly for underprivileged youth, reports that teachers spend much time re-teaching content in the fall that kids supposedly learned the prior spring. Summer learning loss is

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  • ‘Sowing’ Virtues

    ‘Sowing’ Virtues0

    Most 21st century 12-year-old girls ask for ready-to-wear clothes and accessories for birthdays. Not me. I giggled with joy when I received beautiful uncut fabric, lace, and buttons that I could work on to make into clothing. I eagerly asked my Grandma to teach me, as I had long admired her stacks of sewing projects: quilts,

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  • ‘Socialization’ Depends on Who’s Doing the Socializing

    ‘Socialization’ Depends on Who’s Doing the Socializing0

    I was conversing with an 80-year-old neighbor recently who taught and coached for decades in public schools in New York City and here in Virginia. When I mentioned having taught seminars in literature, history, and Latin to homeschoolers, he instantly brought up socialization, a word I’ve heard linked to homeschoolers since my wife and I

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  • ‘Sic Semper Tyrannis’ – a Semiquincentennial Battle Cry

    ‘Sic Semper Tyrannis’ – a Semiquincentennial Battle Cry0

    Thanks to voters in Northern Virginia and Democrat bastions like Richmond, the Old Dominion State now has a governor and a legislature determined to bring massive changes to state law and culture. The Virginia Senate has already put together an amendment to the state constitution guaranteeing the “fundamental right to reproductive freedom,” meaning abortion up

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