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  • Chicago Cops’ New Motto? ‘Stay Fetal’

    Chicago Cops’ New Motto? ‘Stay Fetal’0

    Cop blogs can give you a fascinating insight into what’s going on behind the badge. If you want to get a glimpse of the realities and politics of police work in Chicago, check out Second City Cop, which gets about half a million pageviews each month. Some of it is rather humorous, like this request

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  • Australian Schools Brought Back Greek and Latin – and Are Seeing Amazing Results!

    Australian Schools Brought Back Greek and Latin – and Are Seeing Amazing Results!0

    In 2015, less than 40% of American 4th and 8th-graders achieved proficiency in reading. Public schools have been trying to boost these numbers for years, but have had little success. But news out of Australia may offer a new way to boost not only America’s reading proficiency, but math and science proficiency, as well. How?

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  • ‘Pilpul’ describes what happened to academic writing

    ‘Pilpul’ describes what happened to academic writing0

    At one point in Chaim Potok’s classic The Chosen, David Malter—the father of the main character Reuven—discusses the decline of Jewish scholarship in the eighteenth century. In the discussion, he uses a term that accurately describes much of modern academic writing—“pilpul”: “Jewish scholarship was dead. In its place came empty discussions about matters that had no

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  • Young Whites ODing at an Alarming Rate

    Young Whites ODing at an Alarming Rate0

    In a data analysis, the New York Times has discovered that young whites (aged 25-34) are dying from drug overdoses at an alarming rate—five times the rate of 1999. This statistic, coupled with decreasing black young adult death rates, has worked to shrink the once enormous difference between black and white death rates by two-thirds.

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  • Wisdom from the Supremely Quotable G.K. Chesterton

    Wisdom from the Supremely Quotable G.K. Chesterton0

    1. “Without education, we are in a horrible and deadly danger of taking educated people seriously.”   2. “To have a right to do a thing is not at all the same as to be right in doing it.”   3. “Fallacies do not cease to be fallacies because they become fashions.”   4. “I object

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  • The Implications of NYC’s New Transgender “Guidelines”

    The Implications of NYC’s New Transgender “Guidelines”0

    Just before Christmas, the City of New York issued new “guidance” for enforcing a 2002 law prohibiting “discrimination on the basis of gender identity or expression.” Some conservative websites interpreted the new guidelines to mean that merely addressing a “transgendered” person by a pronoun of the “wrong” gender could result in a $250,000 fine for

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