We walk the streets rarely making eye contact with those we brush up against. We zoom along our freeways, only occasionally glancing at the driver beside us. We sit on the metro and hope we don’t need to make conversation. We wave at our neighbors but rarely talk to them. We are surrounded by people
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Have you asked a high school junior lately what they’re reading in school? According to a report coming out of New York, it’s not Shakespeare… it’s… The Three Little Pigs?! “The report from the state Education Department says the classic children’s fairy tale was just one of several ridiculously easy reading assignments uncovered at Landmark
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There’s a growing consensus that the curriculum of many American high schools has been dumbed down, and that we need to expect more of our students. In response, some schools are returning to a curriculum that approximates the rigor of times past. One is Trinity School at River Ridge – a private school in Minnesota
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Take a look at the trend of births to unwed mothers in America since 1940: And now, more than half of all births to millennial women (of all races) in America take place out of wedlock. Should we be worried about this trend and the decline of child bearing within marriage? Well, statistically speaking, parents
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In the public mind, sex and gender are now separate, though the terms are often confused. Just to clarify, according to the dominant cultural narrative of our time sex (male or female) is biological while gender (masculine or feminine) is how one identifies. Logically, it gets very messy, especially when considered through the lens of
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There is a special drudgery to much of academic writing these days. If you think some of it is incomprehensible, it is. But to the writer and a select circle, you are too stupid to understand it. So which one is closer to the truth? Back in the 1990s, Denis Dutton, a respected philosopher out
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