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  • Quality Education is Not Rocket Science

    Quality Education is Not Rocket Science0

    • March 19, 2014

    Every week it seems I receive three or four letters from people who are establishing new schools or reforming old ones. These letters are most encouraging, and all of the writers, without exception, are dedicated to restoring what is called a “classical” education. Sometimes that implies the study of the true classics, the literature of ancient

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  • Putting the Shoe on the Other Foot

    Putting the Shoe on the Other Foot0

    For hypothetical purposes, let’s say Joe Biden had spent the last four years in the White House and Donald Trump was the challenger. What if Biden was the one being dumped from office, despite evidence that Trump supporters engaged in questionable electioneering? What if election workers in heavily Republican areas had mistreated poll watchers in

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  • Putting the Pieces Together After a Summer of Riots

    Putting the Pieces Together After a Summer of Riots0

    The other day, I drove past the place where it all started. One pulls up to the flashing red stoplight and looks left to check for traffic. There’s no need to look right, because the traffic won’t be there. Instead, one sees cement barricades, covered with scrawling graffiti, and a block down, the now nationally

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  • Putting a Ring on It, for the Children’s Sake

    Putting a Ring on It, for the Children’s Sake0

    Hollywood actor, producer and professional wrestler Dwayne Johnson might be good at a few things, but marriage isn’t one of them. He is divorced from his first wife (mother of his 16-year-old daughter) and has not married his current partner. It’s a pity, because he is about to become a dad for the third time and

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  • Putting a Blowtorch to ‘Toxic Masculinity’

    Putting a Blowtorch to ‘Toxic Masculinity’0

    With Australia’s catastrophic bushfires making headlines around the world, newspapers featured a photo of an iconic kangaroo illuminated by an apocalyptic scene of a burning house. But worse than the hundreds of houses lost or the millions of hectares of land burnt are the fatalities. So far at least 19 people have died, with dozens

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  • Putin’s Claim on Crimea: Spurious or Legit?

    Putin’s Claim on Crimea: Spurious or Legit?0

    In an interview with ABC News last July, then-candidate Donald Trump said: “You know the people of Crimea, from what I’ve heard, would rather be with Russia than where they were.”  Sounds about right: the ethnic split in Crimea is more than 65 percent Russian versus 15 percent Ukrainian.  The results of a poll by

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