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  • Repairing America’s Three-Legged Stool

    Repairing America’s Three-Legged Stool0

    In the past four months, a friend has occasionally sent me Bible verses via email, words intended to console me when I was feeling down. Inspired by these gifts, I recently decided to begin reading the Bible for a few minutes every day, hoping for uplift and insight in the midst of our current dark

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  • Reopening Schools: What Betsy DeVos Gets Wrong and Homeschoolers Get Right

    Reopening Schools: What Betsy DeVos Gets Wrong and Homeschoolers Get Right0

    While the pandemic itself is generating much uncertainty, the battle over back-to-school is causing downright whiplash.  Last month, the American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP) recommended that schools work to reopen for in-person learning this fall. The physician group stated that it “strongly advocates that all policy considerations for the coming school year should start with

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  • Rent Control Advocates Need a Lesson in Economics

    Rent Control Advocates Need a Lesson in Economics0

    Rent control is one of those policies that continues to attract the favor of the public despite the fact it has repeatedly proven to be ineffective when it comes to improving the lives of those it is aimed at. The latest example can be found in Sacramento, California, where a group of people have put

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  • Renewing Reason in Our Local Communities

    Renewing Reason in Our Local Communities0

    Nothing puts the struggles of one’s own life in perspective better than watching your peers succumb to despair. Until the turn of the twenty-first century, members of Generation X seemed to have grown beyond their characteristic “latchkey kid” childhoods. Yet today, many of these fellow citizens of ours, now middle-aged, are opioid addicts and victims

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  • Removing Statues of Violent Bigots? Start with Che

    Removing Statues of Violent Bigots? Start with Che0

    Rosario is Argentina’s second oldest city. Located by the Paraná river, it is the home of hard-working people, a busy port, the national flag memorial, and the country’s bitterest football rivalry between Rosario Central and Newell’s Old Boys. It is also the birthplace of Ernesto “Ché” Guevara. In the last fifteen years or so, coincidentally

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  • Removing Analogies From the SAT Was a Bad Idea

    Removing Analogies From the SAT Was a Bad Idea0

    When I was preparing for the SAT test in 1996, I had to test myself with several examples of analogies, such as the following question: Bandage: Blood :: a) Cable: Bridge   b) Cast: Injury   c) Fort: Army   d) Dam: River But such preparation is no longer needed for today’s students; the analogies

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