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  • Our Grievances Fuel Political Demagogues

    Our Grievances Fuel Political Demagogues0

    “I was grocery shopping and someone banged my foot with their shopping cart,” said a participant in a workshop I was conducting with a large organization. “They made me mad!” Defensive and indignant, the participant went on to tell how he didn’t receive a proper apology. “Everyone in this room knows what I’m talking about,”

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  • How the ‘New Math’ is Ruining Education

    How the ‘New Math’ is Ruining Education0

    By now, you’ve probably seen some of the complaints on the internet about the “new math” being promoted by the Common Core Standards. Many grade-school children—including, for instance, comedian Louis CK’s children—have come home with math homework that is virtually indecipherable to their parents. The goal behind the new math, it seems, is to encourage

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  • John Wayne is Dead, John Lennon is Dying

    John Wayne is Dead, John Lennon is Dying0

    Many years ago, growing up in England, I witnessed the dying embers of loyalty to a dead British Empire. For my father’s generation the unthinkable had happened. Night had fallen on the Empire on which they were raised to believe the sun would never set. As a child, my father told me that there were

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  • Why French Parents Are Still the Boss of Their Kids

    Why French Parents Are Still the Boss of Their Kids2

    Several years ago, a friend of mine told me about a fascinating book called French Kids Eat Everything. I finally had a chance to pick it up recently, and so far, it’s an interesting read. In essence, the book describes how one North American family moved to France and soon discovered that picky eating and

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  • The Original Pinocchio Story was Cray Cray

    The Original Pinocchio Story was Cray Cray0

    Recently while hunting for children’s books with my 4-year-old daughter, I picked up a copy of Pinocchio for a dollar. That night for fun I began to thumb through the book. Now, I recall hearing at some point that Carlo Collodi’s Pinocchio was not quite the charming, good-natured lad we all remember in Walt Disney’s happy

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  • Why Gwyneth Paltrow is Wrong About Nearly Everything

    Why Gwyneth Paltrow is Wrong About Nearly Everything1

    I admit I laughed hard when I stumbled on this joke by Warren Holstein a few months ago: Gwyneth Paltrow’s New Year’s Resolutions:   1) Win war on gluten. 2) Expand Goop brand. 3) Condescend less to rabble.  4) Delete all Coldplay. I laughed so hard because the joke skewers so accurately. And we actually

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