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Evergreen Insanity: Students Forced College Pres. to Pee Under Escort 0
- Culture
- June 19, 2017
We’ve highlighted some of the troubling discord coming from Evergreen State College in Washington state, as well as the media’s apparent unwillingness to cover the strange saga. (The media might be coming around. The New York Times covered the college’s sad commencement on Friday.) But even we were surprised by some of the revelations
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American slavery: Separating fact from myth 0
- June 19, 2017
People think they know everything about slavery in the United States, but they don’t. They think the majority of African slaves came to the American colonies, but they didn’t. They talk about 400 years of slavery, but it wasn’t. They claim all Southerners owned slaves, but they didn’t. Some argue it was all a long
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Does hookup culture differ on Catholic campuses?0
- Culture
- June 19, 2017
Daniel is “free-spirited and open-minded” about hooking up. As one of the 70 percent of students who do so each year on U.S. college campuses, he embraces hookups and their culture of students having sexual encounters without expectations of any feelings, much less relationships. Hooking up, according to Daniel, is all about “fun,” “gratification,” “curiosity,”
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Why Plato Readers Aren’t Surprised by the Collapse of Thought on Campuses 0
- Culture
- June 19, 2017
Over the weekend, the New York Times ran an article on the continuing fiasco at Evergreen College. For those unfamiliar with the situation, the unrest on that campus began when students of color suggested that their white counterparts leave for a day. Liberal-leaning, Bernie Sanders-supporting professor Bret Weinstein politely declined, and chaos ensued. As the
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8 Signs of a Thriving Child 0
- Education
- June 19, 2017
A friend recently gave to me a book titled Gist: The Essence of Raising Life-Ready Kids. As a father of three small children, I have an obvious interest in such a book. Nearly every parent wants to raise a happy, well-adjusted child who will blossom into a capable, bright, and self-sufficient young man or woman.
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5 Famous People Who Found Religion before They Died 1
- Culture
- June 19, 2017
Though some see deathbed conversions merely as a convenient way of covering one’s tracks before leaping into the uncharted territory of death, others believe that people who become religious converts at the end of their lives truly can be sincere in their newfound faith. The five people below, though recognized for things that would be
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Evergreen Insanity: Students Forced College Pres. to Pee Under Escort 0