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  • One sentence that explains Trump’s popularity

    One sentence that explains Trump’s popularity0

    Mass human psychology plays a major role in determining who gets elected in this country of ours. That psychology, though, varies wildly depending on current events. Some men benefit from the times and some men are destroyed by the times. Would George Washington be electable today? Would Lincoln have succeeded at any other time than

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  • One Root of Cancel Culture Can Be Found in How We Teach History

    One Root of Cancel Culture Can Be Found in How We Teach History0

    Ours is an age in which, when one thinks of undergraduates, one thinks of cancel culture. This was on full display recently when students at the University of North Texas shut down a program that was to discuss the merits and demerits of child sex transitions, surely a debatable issue. Some may wonder how we

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  • One Recommendation for Being a Good Debater

    One Recommendation for Being a Good Debater0

    Quite often we approach a debate as gladiatorial matches in which the goal is to utterly eviscerate our opponents.  But is that always best? Do we lose a little bit of our own humanity when we see individuals or even friends and family members as people to destroy in a discussion? It’s true that they

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  • One Reason Teachers Should Be Paid More

    One Reason Teachers Should Be Paid More0

    Should teachers be paid more? “Absolutely!” many teachers would say. The exact opposite response often comes from the general public. Many take one look at The Nation’s Report Card, see that only one third of 12th graders are proficient in reading and one quarter proficient in math, and immediately conclude that such results are a poor

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  • One Reason for Donald Trump’s Success

    One Reason for Donald Trump’s Success0

    Some Grinches hate America! The whole American scene! And no one quite knows the reason why they wish to vent their spleen. It could be, perhaps, that their shoes are too tight. It could be their heads aren’t screwed on just right. But I think that the most likely reason of all Is that their

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  • One Reason Conservatives Are Losing?

    One Reason Conservatives Are Losing?0

    In November 2012, I attended a conservative State Policy Network (SPN) conference the week after President Obama had won reelection. As you might imagine, the mood among the conservative think-tank attendees was rather somber. In spite of all their efforts over the past four years, the more liberal presidential candidate had defeated the more conservative

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