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Are We All Bigots Now?0
- Culture
- June 6, 2016
First, some terms need to be defined here if this is going to make any sense. big·ot /’big?t/: a person intolerant of those holding different opinions. o·pin·ion /?’piny?n/: a view or judgment formed about something, not necessarily based on fact or knowledge. For the sake of clarity, let us say that opinions are the sort
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5 Brief Accounts from D-Day Survivors 0
- History
- June 6, 2016
June 6th marks what would have been my grandparent’s sixty-third wedding anniversary. Although I never took the opportunity to ask them, I always wondered if they chose the day in honor and recognition of the D-Day invasion on the beaches of Normandy. In all likelihood, the trials their generation endured during the war would have
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Why the Muslim Mind ‘Closed’0
- Culture
- June 6, 2016
In 1987 professor Allan Bloom published The Closing of the American Mind, a stinging indictment of American higher education. But according to former policy advisor Robert Reilly, a much more dramatic “closing of the mind” happened in the Muslim world 800 years ago, and is at the heart of the modern conflict between Islam and
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U.S. Students Cheat Far Less Than International Ones 0
- Culture
- June 6, 2016
Over the weekend, The Wall Street Journal ran an interesting article on the prevalence of cheating at American colleges and universities. What I found surprising about the article was the fact that foreign students, particularly those from China, were found to be more likely to cheat than their American counterparts: “A Wall Street Journal analysis
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Presidential Candidates Symptom of Educational Decline 0
- Culture
- June 6, 2016
Over the weekend, author and economist Ben Stein made some rather disparaging comments about the presidential candidates for both parties. In essence, Stein believes they are clueless when it comes to important issues, particularly economics. But the cluelessness doesn’t stop at the presidential candidates. According to Stein, the clueless candidates are simply a symptom of
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D-Day’s Greatest Hero: Agent Garbo 1
- History
- June 6, 2016
There were more heroes on D-Day than can be counted. The vast majority of them died long ago, their lives marked by little more than a stone cross at a quiet commune in northwestern France. Juan Pujol García—aka Agent Garbo—is one of the few heroes of D-Day whose story has been told. And though the
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