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  • The Pushback Against Preschool

    The Pushback Against Preschool0

    With reports coming out that typical preschool programs can actually be a detriment to a child’s academic and social success, perhaps it’s not surprising that parents are looking for alternatives. One recent alternative is outdoor preschool. According to The New York Times, outdoor preschool pushes back against society’s trend toward obesity, electronics, and standardized academics,

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  • Some men just want to watch the world burn

    Some men just want to watch the world burn0

    In the West there seems to be an assumption that runs through a variety of political orientations that if we just solve poverty, provide more freedoms, or accommodate more desires that all people will be peaceful. We seem to have forgotten that the West’s system of government and general political outlook has traditionally been rooted

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  • Orwell’s “1984” One of the Bestsellers in Russia in 2015

    Orwell’s “1984” One of the Bestsellers in Russia in 20150

    Under the leadership of Vladimir Putin, some have accused Russia of slipping back toward totalitarianism. Which is why some news outlets see significance in the fact that George Orwell’s famous dystopian novel 1984 was one of the bestselling books in Russia this past year.   Paul Gobel at the blog Window on Eurasia writes, “Russians

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  • Is Archaeology Increasingly Proving the Bible to Be a Reliable Source of History?

    Is Archaeology Increasingly Proving the Bible to Be a Reliable Source of History?0

    • December 30, 2015

    While looking through headlines the other day, the opening of one in particular caught my eye: “Archaeological Discoveries Prove Jesus Existed.” Clicking through to the article, I found an interview with author Robert Hutchinson, who describes recent archaeological discoveries which he declares lend credibility to biblical accounts. According to the article: “One of the main

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  • Mass communication promotes mass conformity

    Mass communication promotes mass conformity0

    Surely it’s obvious that we live in a mass communication world. What may not be obvious to those of us in the 21st century is that this has been going on for a long time now and the consequences were foreseen way back when. In The Rape of the Mind (1956), Joost Meerloo digs into the

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  • Bestselling Books: 1915 vs. 2015

    Bestselling Books: 1915 vs. 20150

    Below are Publishers Weekly’s lists of the bestselling books from 1915 and 2015. As you might notice, in 1915 the bestselling books all belonged to the fiction genre:   1915 Bestsellers 1. The Turmoil, Booth Tarkington 2. A Far Country, Winston Churchill 3. Michael O’Halloran, Gene Stratton Porter 4. Polyanna Grows Up, Eleanor H. Porter

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