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  • Why Our Kids Would’ve Died in the Jungle

    Why Our Kids Would’ve Died in the Jungle2

    You may have heard that emergency workers recently rescued four siblings between the ages of 1 and 13 who had survived in the jungles of Colombia for 40 days after their plane crashed. After all the elation, much of the American public was left slightly confused: How could kids that young be that resourceful? “My

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  • Why Our Education System Failed to Teach that Nazis Are Bad

    Why Our Education System Failed to Teach that Nazis Are Bad0

    Last month’s torchlight parade in Charlottesville represented, among other things, the utter failure of modern public education and much of modern public discourse. The Great Lesson The clearest, most consistent message we have received from childhood on up is that “Nazis are evil.” Hitler is cast, over and over again, as our civic religion’s Satan.

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  • Why Our Culture is So Fascinated by Monsters

    Why Our Culture is So Fascinated by Monsters0

    I have always wondered why our culture our culture is so fascinated by evil and darkness. When Dante appears on high school reading lists it is always in the form of his Inferno, but never his Purgatorio or Paradiso. One of the biggest educational publishers, Scholastic Books, is known primarily for Harry Potter and The

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  • Why Our Bookstores Never Participated in Banned Books Week

    Why Our Bookstores Never Participated in Banned Books Week5

    Banned Books Week, October 1–7, is here again. Bookstores and libraries across the country will feature displays of what they call banned books. Some mainstream news outlets will offer editorials and articles denouncing censorship in places like school and public libraries. We’ll doubtless hear this year’s theme and slogan, “Let Freedom Read,” repeated from these

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  • Why Our Age Is Defined by Propaganda

    Why Our Age Is Defined by Propaganda0

    There were two main streams of reaction from the political Left following their losses in the 2016 election. One group saw the election results as a signal for the Left to engage in some sustained self-critique, introspection, and dialogue, in the hopes that they would emerge a bit wiser and stronger in the next election.

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  • Why Ordinary People Enable Totalitarians

    Why Ordinary People Enable Totalitarians4

    Cicero said history “casts light on reality and is a guide to life.” The wisdom gained by understanding the past helps prevent the same errors from being repeated. Sebastian Haffner pursued answers to the questions of how the Nazis rose to power in Germany and why the German people did not stop them. In 1939, he wrote

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