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  • Stop Dumbing Down Books for Teens

    Stop Dumbing Down Books for Teens0

    During my senior year AP English class in high school, we read Joseph Conrad’s Heart of Darkness. It was brutal. I thought I was a pretty good reader because I had worked my way through most of Jane Austen, the Brontë sisters, and Leo Tolstoy, but I struggled to get through Heart of Darkness. To this day,

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  • Stop Drinking Coffee and Alcohol for a Year and This Happens

    Stop Drinking Coffee and Alcohol for a Year and This Happens0

    Ever wonder what your life would be like if you suddenly dropped some of the habits that you do regularly? As a person who drinks coffee pretty much every morning, the notion can be a tough one to stomach. Maybe even more so for the person who enjoys having a few beers every night after

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  • Stop Decolonizing Bookshelves and Keep an Open Mind

    Stop Decolonizing Bookshelves and Keep an Open Mind0

    The movement to “decolonize your bookshelf” has been around for a few years, albeit mostly confined to college campuses and radical left-wing circles. Fiction author Juan Vidal defended the idea of the “decolonize bookshelves” movement in an article for National Public Radio, a media outlet that receives taxpayer funding. “I can’t help but wonder whether

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  • Stop Criminalizing Parenthood

    Stop Criminalizing Parenthood0

    When I was young, I had a paper route. It was actually my big brother’s but he subcontracted to me part of the route closest to our house and gave me the appropriate portion of his earnings. I had about three streets I was responsible for and diligently delivered our regional newspaper to neighbors each

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  • Stop Calling the ‘Freedom Caucus’ the ‘Rebellious Far Right Wing’

    Stop Calling the ‘Freedom Caucus’ the ‘Rebellious Far Right Wing’0

    My hope is that this article will settle this nonsense once and for all. It won’t. Fake news outlets will persist as long as they are allowed to get away with it. It’s a smear and an outright lie but it goes on often, especially recently. The Background First of all, as you undoubtedly know,

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  • Stop Boycotting SeaWorld if Conservation is Important to You

    Stop Boycotting SeaWorld if Conservation is Important to You0

    In 2010, the death of Dawn Brancheau, a trainer at SeaWorld Orlando, focused attention on the entertainment groups’ orca (or killer whale) shows. The subsequent release of the documentary Blackfish (2013) detailing captive breeding and training at SeaWorld shifted public perception of dolphin and whale shows from entertainment to something akin to enslavement. SeaWorld was

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