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  • Taco Tuesday’s Days Might Be Numbered. Because Cultural Appropriation

    Taco Tuesday’s Days Might Be Numbered. Because Cultural Appropriation0

    A burrito cart in Portland recently closed after citizens of one of America’s most progressive cities charged its owners with cultural appropriation. Accused of exploiting a marginalized culture by serving its food, two white women and their breakfast burritos were forced into early retirement. Does this signify the collapse of ethnic cuisine? Are all Mexican

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  • Tackling Chores, Teaching Humility

    Tackling Chores, Teaching Humility1

    Years ago, one of my little sister’s least favorite jobs was sweeping the kitchen floor. Although the kitchen was small, the chore would take her forever, and she would often sit there amidst the scattered chairs, broom in one direction, dustpan in another, particles of dust and crumbs trickling into an attempted pile. Suddenly, however,

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  • T.S. Eliot Summed Up Modern Education in 2 Paragraphs

    T.S. Eliot Summed Up Modern Education in 2 Paragraphs0

    A very wise man once noted that there is nothing new under the sun. Perhaps it is for this reason that many who have gone before us are able to frame the issues of our day with such prophetic clarity. T.S. Eliot is no exception. In 1932, Eliot wrote an essay entitled Modern Education and

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  • T.S. Eliot on Early Childhood Education

    T.S. Eliot on Early Childhood Education0

    In the face of abysmal reading, writing, and math proficiency by elementary students, many Americans these days are pushing for universal early childhood education. It’s an odd position we’re in when our education system has expanded itself so incredibly over the 20th century by arguing that it indeed can take kids from all manner of backgrounds

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  • Systemic Racism or the Collapse of the Family?

    Systemic Racism or the Collapse of the Family?0

    Those on the left and right have very different “what’s wrong with America” narratives—especially on the subject of race. The left presumes the pervasiveness of white racism; the right does not.  For those on the left, America has always been—and remains—a racist society. Those on the right concede that there are individual racists, white and

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  • Systemic Pride Is the Problem

    Systemic Pride Is the Problem0

    We live in strange times in which we have become obsessed with race to such a degree that skin color has become the determinant of all moral rectitude. If we were “fortunate” enough to be born with white skin, we are guilty of “privilege” which is systemically racist; if we were “unfortunate” enough to be

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