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  • Seeing Ourselves in the Mystical Mirror

    Seeing Ourselves in the Mystical Mirror1

    Those of us who love literature are puzzled by those who are indifferent to its goodness, truth and beauty. We are perplexed by those who won’t read fiction because they want the facts and nothing but the facts. We are bemused by those who won’t read poetry, preferring prose, because they want to remain grounded

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  • Seeing Others as Collectively Evil Is the Root of All Evil

    Seeing Others as Collectively Evil Is the Root of All Evil0

    Philip Zimbardo, a former president of the American Psychological Association, observed that the American soldiers who committed atrocities at the Abu Ghraib prison were not inherently evil: “The line between good and evil is permeable. Any of us can move across it… I argue that we all have the capacity for love and evil —

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  • Seeds of Hope in a Handful of America’s Youth

    Seeds of Hope in a Handful of America’s Youth0

    On Independence Day weekend, 130 high school seniors and their families gathered to celebrate their graduation from the Seton Home Study School, an international Catholic homeschooling company located here in Front Royal, Virginia. They came from 35 states and Puerto Rico to join the festivities and walk across a stage to receive their diplomas. After

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  • Secular Education Drives American Religion’s Decline

    Secular Education Drives American Religion’s Decline0

    In his observations about 19th-century America, Alexis de Tocqueville pointed to religion as the first of the country’s political institutions – sweeping in its influence on our customs and powerful in its propensity to preempt and prevent tyranny. Yet today, American religiosity is in decline. Weekly church attendance is trending downward, as is self-identification with

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  • Secrets of Septuplet Success

    Secrets of Septuplet Success0

    Remember the McCaughey septuplets? Amazingly, those tiny babies are celebrating their 18th birthday today! In honor of the occasion, USA Today served up a feature article about the family, complete with details on the future plans of each of the seven famous children. Judging from the article, the McCaughey septuplets seem to be happy, congenial,

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  • Second Grade Reading Textbooks: 1879 vs. Today

    Second Grade Reading Textbooks: 1879 vs. Today0

    Over the weekend, a friend of mine was describing her work as a teacher in a local classical school. The literature class she taught for 2nd and 3rd graders particularly interested me. I then asked her what type of reading materials her class used. She replied that their main textbooks were McGuffey readers, the primers

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