When I was a boy, “speed reading” was all the rage among the adults I knew—the ones who read books, that is. I envied them. Learning to read had been hard enough, but I couldn’t seem to read fast enough to allow time for other things I also wanted to do. If, as I now
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Over the past few months, many have been sounding apocalyptic alarms with the rise of Donald Trump. But in a recent post on his website, Robert Reich—a Democrat—argued that Ted Cruz is actually “more dangerous” than Donald Trump. For those who don’t know, Reich has served in the administrations of three presidents. His latest stint
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We all remember complaining as kids about homework. Those of us who are parents have had it repeated by our own kids, as will you, too, if you become a parent. So it would be wonderful if research were to discover that homework doesn’t do much good. Then we could convince educators to drop the
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When does a hat become a battleground? When you’re trying to have good, clean fun on a politically-correct campus, that’s when. Last week, reports Catherine Rampell in the Washington Post, two members of Bowdoin College’s student government faced “impeachment proceedings” to be conducted over the weekend: “What heinous transgression did they commit? Theft, plagiarism, sexual
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While we’ve already noted that Norway is having to teach its Muslim migrants that it is not okay to rape women, it’s worth pointing out that Finland is also having to do the same. Thus, the BBC headline. As the BBC reports: “Migrants arriving in Finland are being offered classes on Finnish values and how
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In his famous work A Study of History, Arnold Toynbee examines why some civilizations break down. Interestingly, he concludes that the reason for civilizations breaking down is contained within the very reason for their growth: “[T]he very process by which growth is sustained is inherently risky: the creative leadership of a society has to resort
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