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  • Two Moms Create a Forest School and Reach Thousands

    Two Moms Create a Forest School and Reach Thousands2

    It was a cool, muddy morning in March when I pulled into the empty parking lot of a sprawling forest and nature preserve about 40 miles outside of Fort Worth, Texas. Soon, cars began arriving, filled with exuberant children of all ages, and their parents, who were ready to spend a few hours together in

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  • Two for the Price of One: Why More Schools Should Offer College Degrees in High School

    Two for the Price of One: Why More Schools Should Offer College Degrees in High School2

    The New York Times recently caught my eye with the following article title: “A High School Education and College Degree All in One.” Such a promise sounds almost too good to be true, like one of those “work from home for $40 an hour” signs plastered everywhere. Yet, the promise is real, and students taking

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  • Two Branches of Government Are All We Have Left, Scholar Says

    Two Branches of Government Are All We Have Left, Scholar Says0

    We learn in elementary school that the American federal system is divided into three equal branches: the legislative, executive, and judicial. But is that still the case?   Mickey Edwards, a former Congressman from Oklahoma who spent 13 years teaching government at Harvard and Princeton, says no. Here is what he wrote in a recent

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  • Two Atheists, Two Films, and Their Call to Virtue

    Two Atheists, Two Films, and Their Call to Virtue1

    The 1966 movie A Man for All Seasons depicts the Lord Chancellor of England Thomas More (Paul Scofield) in his final years when he opposed Henry VIII’s divorce and refused to take the oath declaring Henry the supreme head of the Church of England. The king imprisoned More in the Tower of London. Tried in

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  • Two and Two Now Equal Five

    Two and Two Now Equal Five0

    A few years ago, I thought it was time to retire George Orwell’s 1984 to the attic. My years of teaching literature convinced me that Huxley’s Brave New World was more likely to unfold: a world in which an elite might control the rest of us through the erasure of history and literature, but who

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  • Twitter’s COVID Propaganda Campaign

    Twitter’s COVID Propaganda Campaign0

    If you want a glimpse of modern propaganda at work, you need look no further than the trends that grace the Twitter sidebar. I started watching them more seriously a few months ago when some of the headlines about COVID-related issues sounded far more certain—or perhaps arrogant is the better word—than it seemed they plausibly

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