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  • What Hollywood is Really Worried About with the Kevin Spacey Allegations

    What Hollywood is Really Worried About with the Kevin Spacey Allegations0

    • November 2, 2017

    According to Hollywood logic, if you sexually harass underage boys, for Heaven’s sake don’t also say that you’re gay. In recent days, the floodgates have opened, and the cesspool of sexual harassment inside Hollywood is being revealed for all to see. Hollywood… you know: the people who like to give the rest of us sanctimonious

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  • What History Says About Witnesses at Senate Impeachment Trials

    What History Says About Witnesses at Senate Impeachment Trials0

    Key Capitol Hill players in the Bill Clinton impeachment are taking a decidedly different view about the Donald Trump impeachment when it comes to witnesses in a Senate trial.  The two previous presidential impeachment trials in U.S. history included witnesses in some form.  The Senate impeachment trial of President Andrew Johnson in 1868 included live witness testimony, and

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  • What History Could Have Told Us About Dr. Fauci and His Methods

    What History Could Have Told Us About Dr. Fauci and His Methods7

    Good ol’ Dr. Fauci. The man who has long led the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, and who in the last few years has become the public face of the COVID-19 virus, announced that he will be stepping down in December 2022. Fauci, who seems to be framing his departure as an attempt

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  • What Harvard Neglected in 1982

    What Harvard Neglected in 19820

    • September 19, 2015

    Going through some old, family documents this week, I stumbled upon a clipping fromHarvard Magazine that included an address given by Reverend Peter J. Gomes of Harvard University to the school’s graduating seniors in 1982.   It’s a heart-felt and lively address, which is reproduced below.   What stands out most is that Rev. Gomes recognized

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  • What Happens When You Think

    What Happens When You Think0

    Jacques Maritain (1882-1973) was one of the greatest thinkers of the twentieth century. He was a French philosopher known for his adherence to the philosophy of the medieval Christian philosopher St. Thomas Aquinas. Maritain had a lot of interesting thoughts. One of them comes from his book Creative Intuition in Art and Poetry, a book

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  • What Happens When You Ask Unschoolers ‘What Do You Want to Be When You Grow Up?’

    What Happens When You Ask Unschoolers ‘What Do You Want to Be When You Grow Up?’2

    • November 8, 2017

    My daughter is a baker. When people ask her what she wants to be when she grows up, she responds breezily: “A baker, but I already am one.” You see, with unschooling there is no postponement of living and doing. There is no preparation for some amorphous future, no working toward something unknown. There is

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