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  • Scholar: U.S. Schools Producing the ‘Dumbest Generation’ Ever

    Scholar: U.S. Schools Producing the ‘Dumbest Generation’ Ever0

    Generally speaking, if there’s one thing that liberals and conservatives agree on it’s that America’s schools are in rough shape. A look at the results coming out of today’s schools only lends further credibility to this assertion. With the exception of economics, fewer than 40 percent of today’s high school seniors are proficient in any

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  • Scholar: Schools Are Creating ‘Learned Barbarians’

    Scholar: Schools Are Creating ‘Learned Barbarians’0

    There are two main competing views about human nature in Western civilization. The first and most ancient is the Greco-Roman and Judeo-Christian view. Mutatis mutandis, it holds that men and women are born with a proclivity toward ignorance, are subject to many harmful passions (e.g. anger, envy, etc.), and need much training and work to

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  • Scholar: Many Schools Today Are ‘Indoctrination Centers’

    Scholar: Many Schools Today Are ‘Indoctrination Centers’4

    Here in my city, parents with privilege have many choices. They can send their children to progressive private schools with no grades and no tests, Montessori or Waldorf schools that each focus on a specific value system and learning philosophy, parochial schools, or traditional independent schools. They can also choose to send their children to

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  • Scholar: Jihadists Trying to ‘Destroy Europe through civil war’

    Scholar: Jihadists Trying to ‘Destroy Europe through civil war’0

    It has been often remarked that ISIS and other radical Muslim groups are very shrewd in their use of Western media. According to Gilles Kepel of the Paris Institute of Political Studies, a growing “Jihad Generation” in Europe wants media coverage of their terrorist acts to fuel fears of all Muslims and create chaos within

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  • Scholar: ‘Human Dignity’ Rare Before Christianity

    Scholar: ‘Human Dignity’ Rare Before Christianity0

    In the modern West, we generally take for granted that human persons have an inherent dignity and worth that forms the basis for human rights. The very first clause of the preamble to the UN’s Universal Declaration of Human Rights reads: “Whereas recognition of the inherent dignity and of the equal and inalienable rights of

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  • Scholar: ‘Fainting Couch’ Feminism Needs to Go

    Scholar: ‘Fainting Couch’ Feminism Needs to Go0

    There’s a growing narrative on college campuses that today’s students are oppressed and victims of insensitivity. Such a feeling seems to be particularly held by female students, who believe that their oppression is exacerbated by their gender. But according to scholar Christina Hoff Sommers, these young women need to get over their sensitivity and ditch

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