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3 Must-Read Books on the West’s Abandonment of Religion 0
- Philosophy
- January 26, 2017
What happens when the religious beliefs that undergird a culture are pulled out from under it, as has happened in the West? There is a whole literature on exactly this question: 1. Orthodoxy, by G. K. Chesterton. Chesterton was the greatest thinker of the twentieth century and this was his greatest book (with the possible exception of
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Is it Still Important to Teach Children to Sew?0
- Culture
- January 26, 2017
When I was 10 years old, the opportunity to attend a living history program one summer day left me in a tizzy of anticipation. There was only one problem. I had outgrown all of my historically accurate costumes and had nothing to wear to the event. My mom assessed the situation, pulled out her sewing
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Harvard Article from 1863 Offers 3 Simple Rules for Reading 0
- Culture
- January 26, 2017
We all know how important reading is. It benefits relationships. It builds language development. And reading books has even been found to lengthen one’s life. Such knowledge causes many of us to be aghast at the fact that more than one in four Americans didn’t read a book last year. But what about those
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Is Schooling a Public Good?0
- Economics
- January 26, 2017
Critics of the proposed policy to expand private school choice in the United States argue that the government must fund and control schooling since it is a “public good.” This may sound accurate, as we label some schools as “public” and some as “private.” Since we have public schools, schooling must be a public good,
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Systemic Racism or the Collapse of the Family?0
- Culture
- January 26, 2017
Those on the left and right have very different “what’s wrong with America” narratives—especially on the subject of race. The left presumes the pervasiveness of white racism; the right does not. For those on the left, America has always been—and remains—a racist society. Those on the right concede that there are individual racists, white and
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Fact Check: Do 74% of Californians Really Oppose Sanctuary Cities?0
- Culture
- January 26, 2017
This morning, a friend sent me a story from a right-wing news site. It claimed that “74 percent of Californians want to end sanctuary cities.” The statistic didn’t seem to smell right. Seventy-four percent of Californians? The state in which Donald Trump won 33 percent of the vote? The poll ostensibly had been conducted by
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