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  • What Da Vinci Can Teach Us about Education

    What Da Vinci Can Teach Us about Education0

    A new biography of Leonardo da Vinci has a lot to say about what it is to be a truly educated person. Biographer Walter Isaacson, who also wrote recent well-regarded biographies of Albert Einstein, Benjamin Franklin, and Steve Jobs, hones in on the most important aspect of da Vinci: His love of knowledge for its own

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  • What Critics of ‘Cultural Appropriation’ Are Missing

    What Critics of ‘Cultural Appropriation’ Are Missing0

    Just type the word “cultural” into a search engine and you’re likely to find the phrase ”cultural appropriation” at or near the top. Whether it’s a social justice warrior engaging in a hostile confrontation with a kid over his dreadlocks, or it’s a rant about how Justin Timberlake has “appropriated” black culture with his music,

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  • What CNN’s Don Lemon Doesn’t Know About Humility

    What CNN’s Don Lemon Doesn’t Know About Humility0

    CNN news anchor, Don Lemon, needs to belittle those who don’t share his worldview. Recently Lemon guffawed hysterically as two panelists mocked Trump, Trump voters, and Southerners. Lemon was overcome with “joy” and felt no need to maintain even a semblance of objectivity as the belittlement of millions of Americans continued. CNN neither rebuked nor disciplined Lemon. Faced with

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  • What CNN Gets Wrong in Its Coverage of Seattle’s New Minimum Wage Law

    What CNN Gets Wrong in Its Coverage of Seattle’s New Minimum Wage Law0

    • November 8, 2018

    Economic theory has a few things to say about what will happen to the quantity demanded of something if you raise its price. But activists—and a few economists—have argued that, for various reasons, when the quantity you’re talking about is the quantity of labor, it isn’t as simple as that. In this context, the experience

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  • What Classical Education Tells Us About Sex Education

    What Classical Education Tells Us About Sex Education0

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  • What Cicero Would Say about Roger Stone

    What Cicero Would Say about Roger Stone0

    In his speech before the Roman Senate, when he accused Catiline of conspiracy to overthrow the state, Cicero famously proclaimed, “O ye immortal gods, where on earth are we? In what city are we living? What constitution is ours?”   A former Latin teacher, I thought of those words when I read the news online

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