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  • Bedtime Stories Help Kids—So Ban Them?

    Bedtime Stories Help Kids—So Ban Them?0

    Class divides and racial divides are passé. Now, there’s bedtime reading inequality. In a recent article for the Australian Broadcasting Corporation, journalist Joe Gelonesi asked whether loving families are an “unfair advantage.” The piece asked whether we should level the academic playing field among all children, by having all parents stop bedtime reading in order

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  • That Alexander Hamilton Had One Messed Up Childhood

    That Alexander Hamilton Had One Messed Up Childhood1

    Interest in Alexander Hamilton, the man commonly dubbed America’s “most brilliant” Founding Father, has spiked following the success of Lin-Manuel Miranda’s Broadway “>musical: Hamilton. While I’ve yet to see the musical, I have read the book that inspired Miranda’s work: Ron Chernow’s stunning biography, Alexander Hamilton. It is perhaps the single best biography I’ve read,

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  • Parricide Was Not Treated Kindly in Ancient Rome

    Parricide Was Not Treated Kindly in Ancient Rome0

    Rome was the cultural epicenter of the ancient world. It was renowned for its law and order, piety, engineering, and fine art. But it was still a terribly brutal civilization by modern standards. In the mid-5th century BC, Rome established its first legal code, the Twelve Tables. Oddly, the code was silent on the subject

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