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  • Science Fiction: Why So Many Intellectuals Despise It

    Science Fiction: Why So Many Intellectuals Despise It0

    Do you want to rule a world? Blow apart a sun? Test a theory of community? Explore the very depths of depravity? End slavery and misery? Destroy all empires? It is possible. . . At least in the imagination. “The proper study of man is everything. The proper study of man as artist is everything

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  • Schumpeter on How Higher Education Wrecks Freedom

    Schumpeter on How Higher Education Wrecks Freedom1

    A book that pays high returns for decades with endless insights is Joseph Schumpeter’s Capitalism, Socialism, and Democracy (1943). It is not a systematic treatise. It’s more of a series of observations about huge problems that vexed those times and ours. Many are informed by economics. Some by history. Some by sociology and culture. Schumpeter’s outlook

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  • Schopenhauer’s 7 Pieces of Advice for Readers

    Schopenhauer’s 7 Pieces of Advice for Readers3

    In the news, we often hear distressing statistics about how few books Americans read in a given year. As a result, we tend to be ecstatic if people simply read at all. But intellectual growth requires more than that; it requires that one becomes not only a reader, but a mature reader. In his famous

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  • Schools: Soul-Crushing on Purpose?

    Schools: Soul-Crushing on Purpose?5

    It’s no secret that academic outputs in schools across the nation are pretty abysmal. In fact, things have grown so bad that now it seems we’re praising schools that manage to achieve roughly 50% proficiency. Such allegedly stellar achievement was recently recognized by an article in the Washington Examiner. The article highlighted the schools on America’s military bases–attended

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  • Schools Use Empty Classrooms for Day Care to Double Charge Parents

    Schools Use Empty Classrooms for Day Care to Double Charge Parents0

    Normally when a business shuts its doors, it doesn’t still get to charge its customers for a product they can no longer access. It certainly doesn’t get to charge its customers twice for the privilege. Yet, that’s exactly what we’re seeing from some public school districts. They refuse to open their doors for in-person learning

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  • Schools Shouldn’t Replace Classic Lit with ‘Young Adult’ Fiction

    Schools Shouldn’t Replace Classic Lit with ‘Young Adult’ Fiction1

    In his homily last Sunday—the first Sunday of Advent—my pastor brought up Charles Dickens’ classic Christmas story, A Christmas Carol. He looked around at the young people in the congregation and said, “I’m sure you all read that in school, right?” I sat there thinking to myself, “Don’t bet on it.” Schools seem to be

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