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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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  • What If Newspapers Reported the Real News about Human Progress?

    What If Newspapers Reported the Real News about Human Progress?0

    In his new book Enlightenment Now and in his McLaughlin Lecture at the Cato Institute this week, Steven Pinker made the point that we may fail to appreciate how much progress the world has made because the news is usually about bad and unusual things. For instance, he said, quoting Max Roser, if the media

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  • What if Mueller Questioned Barack Obama?

    What if Mueller Questioned Barack Obama?0

    Imagine if a right-wing version of Robert Mueller, backed by a properly pro-Trump legal team, had sent former President Barack Obama the same sort of questions that Mueller allegedly delivered this week to President Trump. The special counsel might dress them up in legalese, innuendo, and with perjury-trap IEDs, thereby casting suspicion with the mere

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  • What if it’s Bernie vs. Trump?

    What if it’s Bernie vs. Trump?0

    In yesterday’s New Hampshire primary, the two big winners were Donald Trump and Bernie Sanders. Both candidates are considered populists, though both are also quite distinct from each other in style and substance. Obviously. The next two states on the way to the endorsements are Nevada and South Carolina. In Nevada, the latest public polling

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