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  • The Reincarnation of America’s Most Infamous Dead Mall

    The Reincarnation of America’s Most Infamous Dead Mall1

    AKRON, Ohio – Rolling Acres Mall in Akron opened in 1975. I was three years old. Some of my earliest childhood memories are of going to that mall. The mall had only been there for two years, but to a five year old in 1977, it was as permanent and impressive as the pyramids of Egypt.

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  • The Reason Why Universities Don’t Give Their Students Challenging Texts

    The Reason Why Universities Don’t Give Their Students Challenging Texts0

    In a recent article for The Times Higher Education, a variety of university professors from Great Britain and Australia note a common theme in today’s students: an inability to read anything of length or depth. Take, for example, the following quotes: “Our undergraduates – and postgraduate students as well – seem mainly not to be

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  • The Reason We Love The Nutcracker

    The Reason We Love The Nutcracker0

    Many people this holiday season will experience the joy of attending a local performance of “The Nutcracker” ballet by Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky. It’s the most implausible American tradition imaginable, an import from fin-de-siècle Russia straight to your hometown. It’s living proof of the capacity of music and the art of dance to leap the bounds

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  • The Reason So Many Kids Can’t Finish College

    The Reason So Many Kids Can’t Finish College0

    Many students are heading back to school and hitting the books in hopes of earning that precious piece of paper known as a college degree. But according to The Los Angeles Times, the many students who earned a high school degree from Los Angeles Unified School District are having difficulty earning one from college. In

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  • The Reason So Many Americans Are Ungrateful

    The Reason So Many Americans Are Ungrateful1

    From May through October, we buy our produce at a local farm stand owned by a farmer who is vocally anti-Trump. Recently, I overheard the farmer banter with a customer about Trump. To his surprise the customer was an avid Trump supporter. As I watched their interaction, I admired the farmer’s skill at backing off

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  • The Reason Nazis Studied American Race Laws

    The Reason Nazis Studied American Race Laws0

    On 5 June 1934, about a year and half after Adolf Hitler became Chancellor of the Reich, the leading lawyers of Nazi Germany gathered at a meeting to plan what would become the Nuremberg Laws, the centrepiece anti-Jewish legislation of the Nazi race regime. The meeting was an important one, and a stenographer was present

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