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Ladies: The Draft is Coming 0
- Culture
- June 15, 2016
UPDATE: The section of the Senate legislation, detailed below, that would have required women to register for the draft was later removed. However, the question of drafting women for miliary service remains alive, as in February of 2019, federal judge Gray Miller ruled that “the all-male military draft is unconstitutional.” The New York Times reports: In the latest and
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Fathers: Not as Worthless as We’ve Been Told 0
- Culture
- June 15, 2016
Over 300 years ago, philosopher John Locke presented a little nugget of advice for fathers in his work called Some Thoughts Concerning Education. He noted: “The reservedness and distance that fathers keep, often deprive their sons of that refuge, which would be of more advantage to them, than an hundred rebukes and chidings. Would your
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Washington on the 3 Qualities a President Should Have 0
- History
- June 15, 2016
On June 15th, 1775, the newly formed American Congress appointed George Washington as the Commander-in-Chief of the Continental Army. As was the case when eventually elected as America’s first president, Washington’s letters to family and friends demonstrate his extreme reluctance in accepting such an honorable, but demanding, position. The following letter to his friend Colonel
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What would Enlightenment Thinkers have Thought of Trump?0
- Culture
- June 14, 2016
American democracy is feared to be under threat. Comparisons with the 1930s are rife, and Donald Trump is now routinely called a potential Hitler or Mussolini. But some of Trump’s Republican critics have found a different source of inspiration: the great philosophers of the Enlightenment, who have a good deal to say on the subject of
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John Locke on Religious Tolerance 0
- Culture
- June 14, 2016
John Locke (1632-1704) was one of the most influential thinkers of the Enlightenment. The English philosopher’s ideas are at the core of the American Founding; in fact, it can be argued that his thoughts shaped the minds of the American Revolution more than any single thinker. While Locke is best known for his treatises on
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Gamers: What major war came before World War II?0
- Culture
- June 14, 2016
EA Studios, the company behind the Battlefield, first-person-shooter series, recently announced that it almost pulled the plug on Battlefield I, a game set in World War I, that will be released in the fall of 2016. Why? Because the executives were worried that the younger gamers wouldn’t know there was a World War I. GameRant
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