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  • What I Learned When My Students Began Jumping Rope

    What I Learned When My Students Began Jumping Rope1

    By now the outcry has been heard and confirmed: Children need recess or other forms of physical activity to thrive in school. But I could have told you that. As a veteran teacher, I stumbled on this fact in my own classroom quite by accident. Years ago my students took the required, but now defunct,

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  • How the West Can Save Masculinity

    How the West Can Save Masculinity0

    What if the men who obsess over the decline of the West actually helped to restore it? There is no doubt that life is moving at a faster pace than ever before, accelerated by technology and intensified by our growing divisions. But inside the whirlwind lies a burning question: are there still effective ways to

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  • How America’s Gun Culture Cultivates Civic Virtue

    How America’s Gun Culture Cultivates Civic Virtue0

    “It is through the enjoyment of a dangerous freedom that Americans learn the art of reducing freedom’s perils.” —Alexis de Tocqueville Many people are often surprised to learn that I am a gun owner and firm defender of the Second Amendment. After all, I, a first-generation Chinese-American immigrant, do not fit the stereotype of the

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  • Four Reasons ‘You’re a Hater’ Has Become Fashionable Slander

    Four Reasons ‘You’re a Hater’ Has Become Fashionable Slander0

    Hatred has been having a boom time. No insult cuts us more deeply than “you’re a hater”. It means that you are intransigent, intolerant, bigoted and probably a secret nose-picker. “You’re a hater” (or its close cousin, “you’re a bigot”) shuts down all dialogue and turns the alleged hater into a pariah. It was not

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  • Has Patriotism Gone out of Fashion?

    Has Patriotism Gone out of Fashion?0

    • April 8, 2019

    “April is the cruellest month,” notes T. S. Eliot in his poem, “The Waste Land.” For most of us, however, April brings pleasures and celebrations. Where I live, the forsythias have exploded, causing my young granddaughter to wonder why all the bushes were turning yellow. Easter and Passover are just around the corner, my grandchildren, heartier

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  • A Scrunchie-Wearing Man Just Doesn’t Cut It

    A Scrunchie-Wearing Man Just Doesn’t Cut It3

    If you lived through the 1990s, then you endured some repellent clothing trends. Mom jeans. Denim overalls. Flannel shirts. Scrunchies. I rocked that last one. I still remember my favorite: green with little white daisies on it. To my surprise, I discovered this trend is returning… and not just for women, either. According to The

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