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  • The Difference Between Classical and Traditional Education

    The Difference Between Classical and Traditional Education6

    Several years ago I got into a conversation about classical education in which my conversation partner asked, “Isn’t that the kind of education that all those overachieving homeschoolers are into?” I had to laugh. Yes, classical education has that reputation. But the high-achieving nature of classical education hasn’t deterred interest. In fact, classical curricula are proliferating

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  • The Difference between Black Football Fans and White Football Fans

    The Difference between Black Football Fans and White Football Fans0

    A significant portion of the NFL’s fan base has reacted negatively to the national anthem protests of the past year. The responses tend to follow a pattern: The stadium is no place for political protest. The game is a color-blind meritocracy. To protest football is to protest America. But according to a study we published

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  • The Dictatorship of the Young

    The Dictatorship of the Young0

    The end of every semester confronts the college instructor with an indignity: reading student “evaluations” of his performance. While the principle of student feedback is sound in theory, the execution exposes the embarrassing frivolity of American culture. Highlights from my literature courses include, and I quote verbatim: “There was too much reading.” “He should not

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  • The Despair of Stephen Hawking’s Inconsistencies

    The Despair of Stephen Hawking’s Inconsistencies1

    Stephen Hawking’s own personal brief history of time is up. But he left as he lived, feisty, modern and… depressing. And without finding the Grand Unified theory he was famous for being about to discover. Hawking was once equivocal about the meaning of life or lack thereof. In his popular 1988 book A Brief History of

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  • The Designated Hitter Is Another Blow to American Culture

    The Designated Hitter Is Another Blow to American Culture0

    Last week Major League Baseball announced its upcoming return, but they’ve implemented a few new rules, including forcing the designated hitter rule upon the National League, by which pitchers are denied an opportunity to hit in favor of a batter who does not play a position on the field. This implementation is another brutalist blow

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  • The Demonization of Dissent

    The Demonization of Dissent2

    Last week the New York Times ran an article in which it described the apparent radicalization of a group of parents from mainstream political persuasions to a single-issue anti-vaccine fringe. It describes how these parents seemingly came together on social media out of a concern about the damage inflicted by lengthy school closures on their children,

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