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  • There’s a Simple Reason Why More Women aren’t CEOs

    There’s a Simple Reason Why More Women aren’t CEOs0

    Did you ever read the novel Pollyanna as a child? If so, you may remember the scene where stern Aunt Polly lays out a strict schedule for her niece, Pollyanna. This daily to-do list dampens the effervescent Pollyanna, who exclaims: “Oh, but Aunt Polly, Aunt Polly, you haven’t left me any time at all just

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  • There’s a Simple Reason Today’s Students ‘Know Nothing’

    There’s a Simple Reason Today’s Students ‘Know Nothing’4

    I recently had an interesting conversation about education with a young man who grew up in Mexico City. Although we never got on to the topic of whether the American or Mexican system of education system is better, he did have an observation about a major difference between the two. Americans, he noted, don’t know

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  • There’s a Reason the Names of These Great Thinkers are Etched in Stone

    There’s a Reason the Names of These Great Thinkers are Etched in Stone0

    I’ll trade you one queer theorist, one native American novelist, a Chinese writer, and five feminists for six Greeks and two Romans. Homer. Herodotus. Sophocles. Plato. Aristotle. Demosthenes. Cicero. Virgil. These are names that strike fear in the hearts of our cultural elites. Unfortunately for the elites at Ivy League schools like Columbia University, these

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  • There’s No Western Civilization without Christianity

    There’s No Western Civilization without Christianity0

    As my boss is prone to remind me, you can’t enjoy the fruit by cutting down the tree. Yet, that is exactly what many today hope to do when it comes to Western civilization: they want a world permeated with Western values such as freedom, justice, and equality that no longer preserves a knowledge of

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  • There’s No Such Thing as a ‘Fact’

    There’s No Such Thing as a ‘Fact’0

    • January 8, 2016

    It’s commonplace today for people to loosely use the term “fact.” When invoked, it’s used as a predicate for something that simply is and therefore not open to question or debate. For instance, when President Obama said in his 2014 State of the Union Address that “The debate is settled. Climate change is a fact.”

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  • There’s No Relief in Euthanasia

    There’s No Relief in Euthanasia0

    Dealing with the death of a loved one is hard at any time of year, but especially at the holidays. Having lost a couple of close relatives on and around Christmas, I know this full well. I can only imagine what it must be like to go through seasonal celebrations having just lost a loved

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