If G. K. Chesterton were around to account for what’s wrong with our world today, he’d likely list political correctness high among our current ills. The term itself would not have been familiar to him, but the phenomenon was. He detected in the atmosphere of his era a “cloudy political cowardice.” Instead of telling others
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On Feb. 14, sweethearts of all ages will exchange cards, flowers, candy, and more lavish gifts in the name of St. Valentine. But as a historian of Christianity, I can tell you that at the root of our modern holiday is a beautiful fiction. St. Valentine was no lover or patron of love. Valentine’s Day,
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The English writer George Orwell once observed that the “most effective way to destroy people is to deny and obliterate their own understanding of their history.” This idea is working itself out in one of Minnesota’s largest school districts. A decision to pull two of the most influential novels in recent American history, To Kill
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Have you ever noticed that living in a politically correct world is akin to navigating a field of landmines? The truth of this metaphor recently made itself apparent in the realm of Valentine-themed dances. The first instance occurred in a New York elementary school, which cancelled its father-daughter dance because it failed to
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In a now classic experiment, the psychologists Richard E Nisbett and Timothy Wilson at the University of Michigan laid out a range of items, such as pairs of stockings, and asked people to select one. Participants consistently preferred the items on their most right-hand side. But when they were asked to explain their choices, they
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The United Nations is an outspoken proponent of taking action against global warming, and enlisting youth organizations to participate in the cause has long been part of their strategy. Recently, however, UN panelists explained that getting young people involved against climate change isn’t just important. Rather, it was described as “one of the most effective
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