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  • What Lincoln’s Secretary of State Can Teach Us About Hospitality

    What Lincoln’s Secretary of State Can Teach Us About Hospitality0

    November elections are unfortunate in that they have the power to throw a long and divisive shadow over an already under-appreciated holiday, Thanksgiving. The 2018 election cycle was considerably less divisive than the 2016 cycle – which had the effect of cutting Thanksgiving dinners short in many families, and some family members even being uninvited

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  • What Lincoln Foresaw Would Occur If Maxine Waters, Others Got Their Way With Mob Justice

    What Lincoln Foresaw Would Occur If Maxine Waters, Others Got Their Way With Mob Justice0

    In 1836, at the Young Men’s Lyceum in Springfield, Illinois, a 28-year-old lawyer named Abraham Lincoln delivered one of his finest addresses. Lincoln condemned the sharp increase of mobs in America, which had exploded in number as the debate over slavery and regional animosity intensified. “Accounts of outrages committed by mobs, form the every-day news

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  • What Life is Like in a Relativist Society

    What Life is Like in a Relativist Society0

    • November 3, 2015

    So, morality is all a matter of personal preference. There is no way to have a rational argument between competing moral claims, or about whose vision of life is more correct. All we can do is agree to disagree, or try to force other people to agree with us through non-rational means.   At least,

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  • What Kind of School Will Help Your Kids To Be Happily Married?

    What Kind of School Will Help Your Kids To Be Happily Married?0

    The debate over the merits of private schools versus public schools tends to revolve around their relative success in boosting test scores, graduation rates, and college admissions. Which are more successful in giving children the skills they need to thrive in today’s economy? Utilitarian questions like these frame most contemporary discussions of the value of

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  • What Kind of Health Care Did American Women Really Want When They Deserted Kamala?

    What Kind of Health Care Did American Women Really Want When They Deserted Kamala?9

    Donald Trump’s stunning victory has everyone talking, especially about the surprising gains that he made with minority, youth, and women voters. As a woman, I was told that most of us would be voting for Harris because she was a champion of women’s health. It didn’t happen. In fact, Harris barely won the majority of the

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  • What Kids Learn When They’re ‘Just’ Playing

    What Kids Learn When They’re ‘Just’ Playing1

    We’re heading into two weeks (or possibly … two months? two years?) of the kids at home. It’s called Christmas break, as if it’s a break from learning. But that’s just our Puritan Work Ethic talking—the idea that if something is fun, it is a pause from our real job, which is to always be hard

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