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  • The Death of Outdoor Recess

    The Death of Outdoor Recess0

    A mom in New York tells me she’s in a fight with her kid’s preschool. You might think she’s unhappy with the zero-tolerance policy for Kombucha? Too much enrichment? Not enough? In fact, it’s none of the above. Her fight is over the children playing outside. The mother wants her kid to be outside more

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  • The Death of Common Sense

    The Death of Common Sense0

    Three yards of black fabric enshroud my computer terminal. I am mourning the passing of an old friend by the name of Common Sense. His obituary reads as follows: Common Sense, aka C.S., lived a long life, but died from heart failure at the brink of the millennium. No one really knows how old he

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  • The Death of Civic Engagement

    The Death of Civic Engagement0

    In May, Utah Senator Mike Lee released the first report in his Social Capital Project called What We Do Together: the State of Associational Life in America. According to Lee, the state of associational life in America may be more important than we realize. As American society has changed over the past 40 years, the

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  • The Death and Resurrection of Bilbo Baggins

    The Death and Resurrection of Bilbo Baggins1

    In a hole in the ground there lived a hobbit…. The opening sentence of The Hobbit is one of the most famous first sentences in all of literature. Simple and short, like its subject, it ignites the imagination the moment we read it. What on earth, and in its comfortable hole in the earth, is a hobbit?

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  • The Deafening Silence on Social Security’s Looming Insolvency

    The Deafening Silence on Social Security’s Looming Insolvency0

    As the 2020 presidential campaign heats up, it’s disturbing that members of both parties seem unwilling to talk about Social Security. It appears that the program is on such shaky ground that even its mention is political dynamite. How bad is it? Social Security will become insolvent in just 16 years. Who says so? The

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  • The Dead Will Have Their Say

    The Dead Will Have Their Say2

    In his classic work Orthodoxy, G.K. Chesterton penned these profound words about tradition: Tradition is only democracy extended through time. … Tradition may be defined as an extension of the franchise. Tradition means giving votes to the most obscure of all classes, our ancestors. It is the democracy of the dead. Tradition refuses to submit

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