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  • WHAT Students Read Matters More Than You Think

    WHAT Students Read Matters More Than You Think0

    In today’s standards-based education system, the main focus is on teaching skills rather than content. There’s a prevalent idea that it matters less what students read just so long as they are reading. But according to E.D. Hirsch, professor emeritus of education and humanities at the University of Virginia, that’s bull. Some of you may

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  • What Star Wars can teach us about constitutional democracy

    What Star Wars can teach us about constitutional democracy0

    Cass Sunstein is one of America’s leading legal scholars. Both his work generally and his book about Star Wars specifically have attracted enormous attention from both academics and the general public. But one theme of his new book, The World According to Star Wars, highlights an area that is often neglected: the depiction of constitutional issues

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  • What Stalin’s Great Terror can tell us about Russia today

    What Stalin’s Great Terror can tell us about Russia today0

    Between the summer of 1936 and 1938, the regime of Joseph Stalin summarily executed 750,000 Soviet citizens without trial or any legal process. In the same period, more than a million others were sent to the labour camps of the Gulag, from where many would not return. In the history of a murderous regime, this

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  • What Spawned Abdul Artan’s Rage?

    What Spawned Abdul Artan’s Rage?0

    Abdul Artan was the Somali immigrant who recently terrorized the Ohio State campus. A fellow student described Abdul as “measured and intellectual, not angry or violent.” A friend described him as “sweet and humble” and said Abdul “loved America.” Likewise, relatives  said he was a “nice young man and a good student.” While some people

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  • What Social Media is Doing to Our Children’s Morals

    What Social Media is Doing to Our Children’s Morals0

    We have all heard complaints that young people are spending too much time online and not enough time in the “real world” – with studies showing that nearly three quarters of 12 to 15-year-olds in the UK have a social media profile and spend an average of 19 hours a week online. More worrying, perhaps,

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  • What So Proudly We Hailed

    What So Proudly We Hailed0

    At the Jan. 6 rally in Washington D.C., those of us entering the VIP section were required to throw our tote bags in the trash. We divvied up various items, threw the rest away, and entered the grounds. When we left the rally, someone had emptied all of those cans onto the street and the

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