According to the headline of an article this month by Somini Sengupta in the New York Times Sunday Review, “The world has a problem: too many young people.” As soon as I saw that I wanted to ask: Too many for whom and for what? It’s easier to cluck about demographic imbalances then to explain
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No one can completely avoid bringing prejudices to his or her study of history. Nevertheless, some prejudices are more insidious than others, and can be an obstacle to a fruitful use of historical learning. Drawing from the work of Giambattista Vico, philosopher of history R.G. Collingwood (1889-1943) names and describes the following 5 prejudices that
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One of the hottest topics in modern education is the need to teach kids emotional skills. This year, as the Seattle Times reports, several Seattle school districts are adopting a Yale-developed program called “RULER” (“Recognize, Understand, Label, Express and Regulate emotions”) to teach kids “emotional smarts alongside academics.” The program is predictably bizarre-sounding and touchy-feely. Students
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The subtitle of Dr. Jean Twenge’s book may say it all: “Why Today’s Young Americans Are More Confident, Assertive, Entitled—and More Miserable Than Ever Before.” As Jesse Singal explains in a piece for NY Mag, Twenge—a social psychologist at San Diego State University—has spent many years examining why “ever since the 1930s, young people in America
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The world has watched the evils of ISIS for too many years now. On March 17, Secretary of State John Kerry declared that the United States has officially determined that the group’s actions officially constitute genocide. The move by the State Department follows unanimously passed resolution by the House of Representatives that labeled ISIS atrocities
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Richard Nixon stood by a lemon-yellow refrigerator in Moscow and bragged to the Soviet leader: “The American system,” he told Nikita Khrushchev over frosted cupcakes and chocolate layer cake, “is designed to take advantage of new inventions.” It was the opening day of the American National Exhibition at Sokol’niki Park, and Nixon was representing not
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