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  • What Ireland Can Teach the World About the Importance of Family

    What Ireland Can Teach the World About the Importance of Family3

    Earlier this month, Irish voters delivered a stunning ballot-box upset by voting down two anti-family measures that had been heavily promoted by the ruling center-right government and enjoyed widespread support in the media and among the chattering class. Conducted via a double referendum, the two proposals sought to alter Ireland’s constitution to diminish the value

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  • What if Your Grievances Are a Fantasy?

    What if Your Grievances Are a Fantasy?0

    Consider this. You wake from a restless night’s sleep. You find yourself thinking about your 2:00 p.m. meeting. A colleague with whom past interactions have been difficult will be there. You vividly remember his sarcastic put down of your idea for a new marketing campaign. Standing in the shower, you silently rehearse how you will

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  • What if Women Just Don’t Want STEM Careers?

    What if Women Just Don’t Want STEM Careers?1

    If you were to learn that the way to achieve gender wage parity is to build a less gender-equal society, would you be in favor of it? Two recent studies provide strong evidence that the wage gap between men and women has little to do with gender discrimination and everything to do with women being

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  • What if Women Had Voted on Women’s Suffrage?

    What if Women Had Voted on Women’s Suffrage?0

    G.K. Chesterton’s What’s Wrong with the World contains a section of feminism.  By way of providing an accurate preview of what’s to come, he titled it “Feminism, Or the Mistake about Woman.”  Yes, G. K. Chesterton had his differences with the feminist movement, then in its infancy.  Chief among his differences was the mistaken view

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  • What if teenagers can’t even read?

    What if teenagers can’t even read?0

    The teacher’s words are a year old now, but still deeply troubling. In her December 4, 2014 letter to the editor, Kim Dallas, an English teacher at Rosemount High School in Minnesota had the following to say: “I teach high school English, and I am begging you to please read to your children. Read everything.

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  • What if School Was More Like Summer Camp?

    What if School Was More Like Summer Camp?1

    For many children, summer camp is transformational. Working collaboratively, mostly through play and hands-on experimentation, campers try new things, encounter new challenges, and meet new mentors and friends. They are often outside, exploring the world around them, with ample opportunities for freedom and self-expression. Then summer ends and they go back to school, confined in

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