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  • What Should University Presidents Say About Israel v. Hamas?

    What Should University Presidents Say About Israel v. Hamas?2

    Universities should be as private as shoe stores now are. These emporia are free to offer whatever wares they wish. If they do a good job serving their customers, they will prosper. If not, they will lose profits and eventually go broke if they do not correct the error of their ways. The same should

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  • What Should be the Goal of Education?

    What Should be the Goal of Education?0

    With the start of school just around the corner, Phi Delta Kappa has just released their annual poll on American attitudes towards the public schools. This year, one of the questions asked was: “What do you think should be the main goal of a public school education: to prepare students academically, to prepare them for

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  • What Sex Is For

    What Sex Is For0

    In 2019, my then-fiancée and I met with our priest during the premarital counselling process. One of his questions was whether we wanted children. We said we did. That was good, he replied. If we didn’t, he would refuse to marry us. Although he would make exceptions for marriages beset by genetic, medical, or mental

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  • What Selfies and Jane Eyre Have in Common

    What Selfies and Jane Eyre Have in Common0

    What do Jane Eyre and selfies have in common? One is a timeless work of literature from well before cameras were in common usage. The other is a much derided, and much practiced, modern form of narcissism. And yet, a recent article in The Atlantic by Karen Swallow Prior connects the selfie to Charlotte Bronte’s

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  • What SEALs and Caesar Teach About Slowing Down

    What SEALs and Caesar Teach About Slowing Down0

    With the exception of some entomologists, few people are fans of cockroaches. We may admire the beauty of a butterfly, the industry of an ant, and the intricacy of a spider’s web, but show us a cockroach, and we’re ready to roll up that magazine we’re reading and swat away.  In 1975, I rented a

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  • What Science Says About When Life Begins

    What Science Says About When Life Begins1

    On Wednesday December 1, 2021, the U.S. Supreme Court heard oral arguments in Dobbs v. Jackson. This case involves a Mississippi law that limits abortion to 15 “weeks’ gestation except in medical emergency and in cases of severe fetal abnormality.” During the hearing, Mississippi Solicitor General Scott G. Stewart defended the law by asserting that

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