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  • The Parental Quandary of Letting Go

    The Parental Quandary of Letting Go5

    She was my firstborn, the privileged one who received the slavish affections of a delirious father instantly smitten by the new, fragile, squirming, little creature. Her birth unleased a whole new range of emotions and sensations: drooling euphoria, unhinged rapture, besotted reverence, incoherent adulation. There were the feedings and diaper changes and other more tedious

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  • The Paradox of Leveling the Playing Field in the Name of Equality

    The Paradox of Leveling the Playing Field in the Name of Equality0

    Concepts of equality have long formed the keystones of Western philosophies. Revolutions have been fought in the name of equality, our courts are built around the idea that we are all equal before the law, and activists have spent the last century working to break down the systematic inequalities affecting our societies.   Indeed, philosophical

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  • The Pandemic That Killed Debate

    The Pandemic That Killed Debate0

    Carl Sagan famously said, “the cure for a fallacious argument is a better argument, not the suppression of ideas.” This wisdom has been sadly forsaken during the COVID19 pandemic, when one powerful narrative has taken not only the public, but the scientific community, by storm. The story is that societies cannot survive the pandemic without

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  • The Pandemic ‘Treaty’ About to Land on Our Doorstep

    The Pandemic ‘Treaty’ About to Land on Our Doorstep1

    Almost 50 years ago, I had a conversation with my Uncle Russ, a family physician and a life-long Democrat. I was still a college kid, moderately liberal, and happened to say during a discussion of foreign policy something like, “Well, someday we’ll be better off with a world government like the United Nations.” To this

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  • The Overused “Teacher Bashing” Defense

    The Overused “Teacher Bashing” Defense0

    • September 2, 2015

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  • The Overlooked Step Turning Kids Into Readers

    The Overlooked Step Turning Kids Into Readers0

    On a recent Saturday morning seven of my grandchildren from two different families came to my apartment for an ice cream breakfast, now a once-or-twice a year Grandpa tradition. After they’d eaten their fill of ice cream covered with fruits, chocolate chips, butterscotch or chocolate syrup, and whipped cream topped with the customary cherry, we

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