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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We’ve often quoted T.S. Eliot’s famous lines from Choruses from the Rock as descriptive of our current age: Where is the Life we have lost in living? Where is the wisdom we have lost in knowledge? Where is the knowledge we have lost in information? It is frequently remarked that people are “drowning in information” in
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Many homeschooled children continue to demonstrate impressive academic feats. The latest example is a homeschooled Minnesota teen who became one of a very small number of students to achieve a perfect score on the ACT. As Fox 9 reports, Sam Mansfield scored a 36 on the February ACT. According to the testing service, of the
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Cases of college students demanding restrictions on free expression are making the news on a weekly basis. While much criticism has been directed at student calls for “trigger warnings,” “safe spaces,” and the “right not to be offended,” less has been said about the impetus behind this advocacy. If we assume the best of those
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Several days ago, we mentioned 1916 author William Stout, who advocated for young boys to build and create toys on their own. Stout believed that the ability to create and make things gets boys thinking, and fosters the ideas which can eventually spur the growth of the country. Although written a century ago, Stout’s reasoning
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A common myth that has persisted for 1,500 years is that St. Patrick drove out the snakes of Ireland. That is simply not the case. He did do a great many of things, but that is not one of them. A Treasury of Irish Folklore (1967) sheds some light upon a possible reason for the
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