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What U.S. Students Miss by Not Learning Latin0
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- June 17, 2016
Although it’s not primetime news in the U.S., a 15 year-old student from Athens, Georgia, recently made international waves when he became the first American to win the Certamen Ovidianum Latin competition in Italy. Josiah Meadows took home $1,000 in cash and other prizes for translating a passage from Ovid and then writing an essay
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What Trump’s Executive Order on Refugees Does (And What it Doesn’t)0
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- January 30, 2017
Before I even had my Saturday morning coffee I received a text from a friend linking to a New York Times op-ed with the headline, “Trump’s Immigration Ban Is Illegal.” As I ground beans, the wife of a prominent conservative friend posted on Facebook that she was “heartbroken” over the ban, and that she promised
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What Trump Will Leave in Biden’s Inbox0
- International
- November 24, 2020
Dismissing President Donald Trump’s claim that the 2020 election remains undecided, Joe Biden has begun to name his national security team. Right now, it looks Democratic establishment all the way. Antony Blinken, a longtime foreign policy aide, is Biden’s choice for secretary of state. Jake Sullivan, one of Hillary Clinton’s closest aides, is said to
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What Trump Could Learn about Flattery from Reading Plutarch0
- History
- August 8, 2017
Nero may have fiddled while Rome burned, but it was the flattery of his courtiers that convinced the emperor he could get away with it. In his essay, “How to Tell a Flatterer from a Friend,” the late Roman historian Plutarch gestures at Nero, speculating that if the emperor had known to silence his flatterers,
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What Today’s Young Men and Women Can Learn From the Abernathy Boys0
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- January 12, 2018
Ten years ago, Lenore Skenazy started the modern free range kids movement when she wrote a column about letting her nine-year-old son ride the New York subway home by himself. Highly criticized for such a move, Skenazy explains that the subway ride was her son’s idea, and only came after he begged long and hard
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What Today’s Supreme Court Ruling Could Mean For Schools0
- June 26, 2015
The U.S. Supreme Court today ruled that citizens have a constitutional right to same-sex marriages. It goes without saying that the decision will have a broad-reaching societal impact, and could very well impact schools. How? As the New York Times reported on Wednesday, “The religious schools are concerned that if they continue to ban gay relationships, the Internal
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