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  • Memorization Is Still a Necessary Skill

    Memorization Is Still a Necessary Skill0

    • August 22, 2016

    With another school year about to start, here’s a bit of advice from a recently retired college history teacher. Beware of teachers whose opening day gambit assures all new students that they have little or nothing to worry about on the following front: none of that dreaded memory work will be asked for, much less

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  • Memento Mori: Fear in the Age of Coronavirus

    Memento Mori: Fear in the Age of Coronavirus0

    Memento mori. That’s Latin in short form for “Remember, you too shall die.”  Recently I read Erik Larson’s The Splendid And The Vile: A Saga of Churchill, Family, and Defiance During the Blitz, in which he paints in vivid detail the people and the events of that time when Britain stood alone against the might of

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  • Meme Cleverly Shows the Common Enemy of the Rich AND Poor

    Meme Cleverly Shows the Common Enemy of the Rich AND Poor1

      It’s not often that I peruse political sites. Since I’ve heard most of them before, the arguments they make are almost entirely predictable. But sometimes one stumbles onto a gem by accident. Thanks to a Facebook meme—whose proximate source is the blog International Liberty, and whose ultimate source is a book cited at that

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  • Melting Down Art and History

    Melting Down Art and History0

    After the Civil War, former North Carolina governor Zeb Vance became a U.S. senator. His Northern colleagues enjoyed his affable nature and sense of humor, and some of them invited him to Massachusetts during a break in government business. While there, Vance attended a party, and eventually required a visit to the outhouse, where his

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  • Melinda Gates’ Love Letter to the Pill

    Melinda Gates’ Love Letter to the Pill0

    “Contraceptives are the greatest life-saving, poverty-ending, women-empowering innovation ever created.” That’s the message of Melinda Gates, wife of one of the world’s richest men, in her new book The Moment of Lift: How Empowering Women Changes the World. In The Moment of Lift, Melinda tells the story of her philanthropic work, particularly with the Bill

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  • Mel Brooks: Political Correctness is Stupid and Killing Comedy

    Mel Brooks: Political Correctness is Stupid and Killing Comedy0

    There’s a lot of things that have changed since a little thing called “political correctness” pervaded our culture. What you can wear, what you can eat, what you can celebrate… even the history that we teach in school has been influenced by the culture of political correctness. But it’s also hampering another aspect of life

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