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One of the prominent narratives in society in recent years concerns the idea that women are falling behind and treated unfairly in the classroom and the workplace. An example of this is the annual “Equal Pay Day,” which highlights the gap in earnings between women and men. But while the plight of women often receives
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The United States is in the midst of a national intellectual crisis. Popular support for the path to destitution and tyranny—the path followed by Venezuela, Cuba, and the former Soviet Union—is at an astonishing 77 percent among Democrats. Most young Americans prefer socialism to capitalism. The next election might not result in a socialist president, but the gains being
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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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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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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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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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