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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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Do Children Really Need ‘More Rigorous’ Pre-Schools?0
- Culture
- August 7, 2017
My grandmother taught kindergarten. In the ‘40s, before her own baby boomer children arrived, she spent weekday mornings singing ABCs and writing 123s with neighborhood children in the living room of her small suburban home. Kindergarten back then was very different from today. For one, it was fun. For another, it was part-time and low-key.
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Logic is More Important than Ever – So Why Don’t Schools Teach it Anymore?2
- Education
- August 7, 2017
One of the great ironies of our age is that schools have stopped teaching logic in an age when it’s more necessary than ever. We live in a time defined by vast information, mass marketing, and propaganda. It’s been 70 years since Dorothy Sayers observed that by teaching young men and women to read but
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The Real Reason Women Bully Each Other at Work (And Everywhere Else)0
- Culture
- August 7, 2017
In a recent article written for The Atlantic, Olga Khazan asks, “Why do women bully each other at work?” In the article’s body, she details several studies and personal stories from women who have found their work environments to be quite hostile because the other women there behaved meanly toward them. One of the
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Who is Winning the Gender War: Boys or Girls?0
- Education
- August 7, 2017
Recent headlines have made much to-do over the gains – or setbacks – of transgender students. With this focus, it’s easy to lose sight of what’s happening with the two original genders: boys and girls. For many years, we’ve been told that it is females who are falling behind in the war between the sexes.
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Why Do Progressives Hate the West So Much?0