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  • It’s True, We’re Biased

    It’s True, We’re Biased0

    • August 17, 2016

    These days it’s fashionable to chastise people by calling them “biased.” The accusation of “bias” is supposed to leave the accused cowering and begging for forgiveness.  We frequently see this accusation hurled about on our social media sites, where we reach up to 10 million individuals weekly.  You see, “bias” has been turned into a

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  • It’s Time to Tell the Story of the Civil War Once More

    It’s Time to Tell the Story of the Civil War Once More53

    I drive a Volkswagen. Well, not right now, at least since I had surgery, but I do own a ’73 Beetle! And let me tell you, that little car brings me such joy, especially when I turn it out on the road for rides in the country with the windows down and the cool breeze

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  • It’s Time to Stop Hating on ‘Mary, Did You Know?’

    It’s Time to Stop Hating on ‘Mary, Did You Know?’2

    There are plenty of candidates for the worst Christmas song. “Do They Know It’s Christmas?” comes off as the humanitarian equivalent of an “Arms of the Angels” ASPCA ad; “Here Comes Santa Claus” seems to be proselytizing for some kind of strange, syncretistic Christmas religion; and “I Want a Hippopotamus for Christmas” is enough to

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  • It’s Time to Root Students in Fertile Soil

    It’s Time to Root Students in Fertile Soil0

    I’ve been doing a lot of gardening and landscaping lately, building new flower beds and filling them with salvaged soil, edging them with rocks and planting them. I’ve moved plants to give them more suitable growing conditions—more or less light, or wind, or exposure to street traffic, depending on their sensitivities—plants sort of tell you

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  • It’s Time to Reclaim America’s Cultural Literacy

    It’s Time to Reclaim America’s Cultural Literacy11

    President Donald Trump signed an executive order recently calling for the dismantling of the Department of Education (ED), a process that will still require an act of Congress, leaving his critics aghast and hyperbolically claiming that he is trying to end education itself in America. In fact, he is trying to rescue it. “The experiment

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  • It’s Time to Raze the Colosseum

    It’s Time to Raze the Colosseum0

    A number of statues have recently been destroyed or vandalized to protest racism and slavery. I thought that it might be good to think big and work towards eliminating the biggest monument of all, the Colosseum. I’ve created a petition at change.org. If you agree, please sign it. Below is the text. Memorializing genocidal monsters,

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