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Why U.S. Schools Don’t Produce Adults 6
- Culture
- August 8, 2017
One of the hallmarks of modern America is the tendency toward prolonged childhood. While it used to be the norm to enter the adult working world by one’s mid-to-late teens, students now extend their preparation for career well into their twenties (and sometimes beyond), enabled by parents who act as their caretakers, education experts who
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Christian Art Stinks Today. Why?3
- Culture
- August 8, 2017
I’ve long wondered why it is that modern Christians contribute so little art of merit to our culture. I’ll occasionally make this point to fellow Christians over cocktails when I feel naughty. Invariably, my thesis meets pushback. “What about Tolkien and Lewis,” they contend. “Oh, and Chesterton.” When it is pointed out they are citing
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K-12 School Agrees to Gender Inclusion Policy With No Notice or ‘Opt Out’ for Parents 0
- Culture
- August 8, 2017
After facing a lawsuit over its treatment of a kindergartener who identifies as transgender, a nationally recognized public charter school in Minnesota has agreed to adopt a far-reaching inclusionary policy. In the settlement, the school promised to establish a gender inclusion policy that doesn’t allow parents to opt out “based on religious or conscience objections,”
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The Secret to Getting Along With Others 0
- Culture
- August 7, 2017
I had already completed 16 years of schooling when I took a class to prepare for entrance exams to law school (I decided not to go). First order of business for nailing the exam: the study of logic. My mind was absolutely blown. I was stunned to discover that there are rules for thinking, proofs
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Why Do Progressives Hate the West So Much?0
- Politics
- August 7, 2017
President Trump was right to defend the West, a civilization which goes back to the Homeric epic and the Hebrew prophets, and having been baptized by Christ, is “not the property of any particular race but the universal aspiration of humankind”… In an essay for The Atlantic earlier this month, Peter Beinart, an associate professor of journalism
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If Infanticide is Wrong, is Abortion Wrong?0
- Culture
- August 7, 2017
Should we abandon arguments for abortion if they also permit infanticide? Two US-based academics say “yes”. In a new paper in the journal Theoretical Medicine and Bioethics, philosophers David and Rose Hershenov suggest that non-conscious fetuses and minimally conscious neonates are morally equivalent in their fundamental interests, namely, their shared interest in “healthy development”. Insofar as
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