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Parents: More Vital to Education Than We Realize?0
- Education
- October 12, 2017
Sometimes it seems that America is on a never-ending quest to boost achievement and make education better. One year, classroom technology is the answer to the problems. The next year, the answer is universal preschool. The year after, test abolishment is believed to be the solution. And on it goes. But what if we’ve had
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Move Over Obama, Trump Has a Pen, a Phone… and a Tweet 0
- Politics
- October 11, 2017
President Trump spent the weekend embroiled in yet another Twitter skirmish, this time with retiring Republican Senator Bob Corker. Trump may even have suffered a rare defeat on his own turf, based on Corker’s hilarious rejoinder about someone missing their daycare shift at the White House. If Trump has a soul, even he laughed at
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Looking at Randomness but Seeing Conspiracies 0
- Philosophy
- October 11, 2017
We see patterns where none exist. It’s what humans do; in fact, it’s what animals do. Mark Twain noticed this, and had a pithy summary. We should be careful to get out of an experience only the wisdom that is in it — and stop there; lest we be like the cat that sits down
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4 Good Reasons to Say ‘Men’ Instead of ‘Men and Women’0
- Literature
- October 11, 2017
As our culture descends into confusion about gender, there’s more and more talk about changing our language to accommodate it. Unfortunately, if your language has to be brought into conformity with confused thinking, you end up with confused language. Jacques Barzun was one of the greatest humanities scholars of the twentieth century. In the book
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Violent Crime is Up Even Though Poverty is Down. Why?0
- Economics
- October 11, 2017
The FBI recently released its Uniform Crime Report for 2016. There is a lot to digest in the report, but here are three primary takeaways: 1) Violent crime since 2015 is up 4.1% (the second year in a row violent crime has increased); 2) homicides rose sharply (8.6%); 3) the biggest increases in violent crime
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Men: They took your NFL, now what?0
- Culture
- October 11, 2017
The culture war is a total war. There is no escape, there is no safe place. Everything is politicized, everything is fair game. You’re starting to realize that now. Maybe you noticed a few years back that ESPN had increasingly incorporated political issues and social justice narratives into its reporting. But like in other areas
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