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  • The Missing Ingredients in Modern Education

    The Missing Ingredients in Modern Education0

    • November 3, 2017

    While working at a local Catholic High School I couldn’t help observing how the whole enterprise too often focussed on achievement rather than accomplishment. There was a constant race for “good grades” which at worst functioned like votes in a popularity contest. “Sally didn’t get an ‘A’ so you don’t like her!” Parents were not

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  • The Miss America Cover-Up: ‘We are no longer a pageant’

    The Miss America Cover-Up: ‘We are no longer a pageant’0

    First the Barbie makeover, now this.   The Miss America Pageant announced last week that it will no longer be a pageant, a word which the Macmillan Dictionary defines as “a competition between young women in which judges decide who is the most beautiful.”   “We are no longer a pageant; we are a competition. We will no

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  • The Misguided Campaign to Remove this Thomas Hart Benton Mural

    The Misguided Campaign to Remove this Thomas Hart Benton Mural0

    In recent years, people have protested the racism of Confederate statues, Hollywood and sports mascots. But a curious campaign has taken place on Indiana University’s Bloomington campus. Students have circulated petitions and organized protests seeking the removal or destruction of painter Thomas Hart Benton’s 1933 mural “A Social History of Indiana,” which contains an image

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  • The Misery of Modern MLM

    The Misery of Modern MLM0

    “Hi Emma! How are you? It’s been years!!” I received this message from a woman who added me on Facebook. The years, by my count, were at least 20. And our contact was pretty limited even back then. My parents were friends with her parents during my childhood. She was several years older than me

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  • The Miracles of Human Cooperation Are Hidden in Plain Sight

    The Miracles of Human Cooperation Are Hidden in Plain Sight0

    Recently, my wife and I had occasion to shop at Trader Joe’s just before closing time. The docks to the storage level were open, and the space inside was stacked from floor to ceiling. Workers were unloading trucks and adding to the brightly lit cornucopia. What happens at night is invisible to the thousands of

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  • The Minnesota First at the Battle of Gettysburg: Putting Lincoln’s Words into Perspective

    The Minnesota First at the Battle of Gettysburg: Putting Lincoln’s Words into Perspective0

    On July 3rd, 1863, Union troops won the Battle of Gettysburg. Considered to be a turning point of the war, Gettysburg was the deadliest Civil War battle, not only in terms of civilian soldiers, but Generals as well. The three days of fighting were filled with devastation, tragedy, courage, and heroism. There were many points

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