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  • What Part of ‘Brexit Now’ Does Theresa May Not Understand?

    What Part of ‘Brexit Now’ Does Theresa May Not Understand?0

    • July 18, 2018

    Many people regard Magna Carta as the first constitutional guarantee of the basic liberties of the English-speaking world. Fewer people know that Magna Carta wasn’t imposed on King John just because he abused his power (which, after all, has been true of most kings and governments throughout history) but because he had handed away the

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  • What Parents Can Learn From this 4-Year-Old Reading Prodigy

    What Parents Can Learn From this 4-Year-Old Reading Prodigy0

    As The Washington Post reported, the Library of Congress had a special visitor Wednesday: 4-year-old Daliyah Arana. But Daliyah wasn’t visiting the library as just any old tourist. She was visiting as the “librarian of the day.” According to the WaPo, Daliyah attained this special status for her stellar reading ability. Even though she has

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  • What Parents can do to Make Children Great Writers

    What Parents can do to Make Children Great Writers0

    A little more than 300 years ago, a man named John Locke rolled out a plan for the well-rounded education of a child. Among other things, Locke noted the crucial importance which parents and teachers must place on writing instruction: “There can scarce be a greater defect in a gentleman, than not to express himself

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  • What Our Founders Really Thought of Slavery—and Why the New York Times Is Wrong

    What Our Founders Really Thought of Slavery—and Why the New York Times Is Wrong0

    For those who want to fundamentally transform our nation, the first order of business is to thoroughly discredit our past.  For decades, progressives have claimed that our foundations are so cracked and broken by the original sin of slavery that reverence paid both to our Constitution and its Framers is undue.   While the left has

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  • What One Professor Learned While Teaching Conservative Political Theory to Liberal Students

    What One Professor Learned While Teaching Conservative Political Theory to Liberal Students0

    Several years ago, liberal professor Jonathan Haidt made a surprising statement about today’s college students. Explaining their inability to handle conflict or anything contrary to their own opinions, Haidt noted: This makes it impossible to teach. This makes it impossible to have an intellectual community. I’m a liberal Professor and my liberal students scare me.

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  • What One of History’s Greatest Intellects Said About His Writings

    What One of History’s Greatest Intellects Said About His Writings0

    “All that I have written seems to me as so much straw.” No, these aren’t the words of a modern blogger. They came from St. Thomas Aquinas (1225-1274), without question one of the greatest intellects history has known.  How brilliant was Aquinas? He conducted quodlibetal disputations, in which a gathered crowd at the university could

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