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  • Why Charles M. Schulz Added a Black Character to the Peanuts Gang

    Why Charles M. Schulz Added a Black Character to the Peanuts Gang1

    On April 15, 1968, Harriet Glickman, a schoolteacher and mother of three, wrote a short letter to cartoonist Charles M. Schulz. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. had been assassinated less than two weeks before. Much of the momentum of the Civil Right Movement seemed lost. Glickman explained to Schulz that she felt a need to

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  • Amy Schumer: Unlikely but Persuasive Defender of Marriage

    Amy Schumer: Unlikely but Persuasive Defender of Marriage0

    Amy Schumer seems like an unlikely critic of the sexual revolution. But in her new memoir, The Girl With the Lower Back Tattoo, the often ribald comedian writes of her parents’ marriages (three apiece) and divorces in a way that reads like fodder for a Dr. Laura book about family values. “I’ve had UTIs that lasted

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  • Scholar: Schools Are Creating ‘Learned Barbarians’

    Scholar: Schools Are Creating ‘Learned Barbarians’0

    There are two main competing views about human nature in Western civilization. The first and most ancient is the Greco-Roman and Judeo-Christian view. Mutatis mutandis, it holds that men and women are born with a proclivity toward ignorance, are subject to many harmful passions (e.g. anger, envy, etc.), and need much training and work to

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  • Telegraph: Down’s Syndrome People Could Soon Face “Extinction”

    Telegraph: Down’s Syndrome People Could Soon Face “Extinction”0

    This week, The Telegraph commented ona trend that’s been apparent for quite some time: about 90% of pregnancies involving a fetus diagnosed with Down’s Syndrome in Britain are aborted. The statistical picture in the U.S. is a bit more complicated, but even with all the academic qualifications, it’s clear that the majority are aborted. Some

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  • Is European Civilization Vanishing Before Our Eyes?

    Is European Civilization Vanishing Before Our Eyes?0

    European demographic decline has been a topic that has been canvassed a lot on this blog. Looking at our more recent posts this year, we have written about Italy’s demographic “apocalypse”, Hungary’s fight against depopulation, Europe’s dying villages, the migrant crisis, Romania’s longterm demographic decline, and Finland’s historically low birthrates. We even saw Lord Sack’s warning that we are seeing the fall of

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  • Doctor: Excusing Kids from Chores is “a Mistake”

    Doctor: Excusing Kids from Chores is “a Mistake”0

    Ask many of today’s parents if they were required to do chores as a child and the answer will likely be yes – accompanied, of course, by a description of their least favorite job. But while 82 percent of today’s parents did chores as a child, only 28 percent of them expect the same out

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