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  • When the Russians Came to Town: Reflections on Communism and Socialism

    When the Russians Came to Town: Reflections on Communism and Socialism0

    In the mid-1980s, when Ronald Reagan was president and the Soviet Union was fighting a losing battle in Afghanistan, my wife and I were running a bed and breakfast in Waynesville, North Carolina. One day, an executive from the Dayco Corporation, a manufacturer of rubber tubes and automotive hoses in the adjoining town of Hazelwood,

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  • When the Rule of Law Ends, Tyranny Soon Follows

    When the Rule of Law Ends, Tyranny Soon Follows5

    The rule of law in our country is buckling under the weight of those who seem intent on its destruction.

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  • When the Quest for Education Equity Stifles Innovation

    When the Quest for Education Equity Stifles Innovation0

    • October 10, 2019

    In March, efforts to open an innovative public high school in a diverse, urban district just outside of Boston received a devastating blow. Powderhouse Studios was in the works for seven years, with grand hopes of changing public education from a top-down system defined by coercion to a learner-driven model focused on student autonomy and

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  • When the Father of Modern, American Education thought Soviet Schools were the Best Example

    When the Father of Modern, American Education thought Soviet Schools were the Best Example0

    John Dewey (1859-1952) was the education philosopher largely credited with the creation of the modern, progressive approach to education that now dominates American schools. His influence was far-reaching and cannot be denied. As always, we must remember that there is no value-neutral education. All education is the purposeful shaping of young minds towards a certain

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  • When the Bible Was “Updated” for Modern Audiences

    When the Bible Was “Updated” for Modern Audiences0

    • October 15, 2015

    Yesterday we discussed the Oregon Shakespeare Festival’s project to update the language of Shakespeare’s plays for modern audiences. Today I thought I would point to another example of a piece of Elizabethan literature that was updated into modern idiom: the Bible. (And yes, Christians, I’m aware that the Bible is regarded as more than “literature.”)

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  • When Tech Elites Lose Their Religion

    When Tech Elites Lose Their Religion0

    Remember the “digital divide”? That’s a media-friendly bit of alliteration, going back to the 1990s, used to describe the unequal distribution of digital access. That is, there were some areas where the Internet and related technologies were scarce — and those areas still exist today. Yet lately we’ve seen the emergence of a second kind of digital

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