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  • The Decay of our Language is Happening

    The Decay of our Language is Happening0

    “Political chaos is connected with the decay of language.”   -George Orwell   In an article entitled “Valuing Vocabulary,” published Friday (May 20), Cherie Harder, President of the Trinity Forum, connects the state of modern politics, especially the current presidential election campaign, with lessons to be learned from George Orwell’s novel, Nineteen Eighty-Four.  In Orwell’s

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  • The 5 Likeliest Reasons for an Airline Disaster

    The 5 Likeliest Reasons for an Airline Disaster0

    News of any terrible air accident instantly raises questions about aircraft safety and the threat of terrorism. But until the facts are known, it is unwise to speculate on what might actually have caused a specific crash. What we do know is that there are several causes that are more likely to occur than any

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  • Positive Psychology and a Gospel of Happiness

    Positive Psychology and a Gospel of Happiness0

    “What is real happiness? How can I experience it? How can I live it?” As Christopher Kaczor notes in the Introduction to The Gospel of Happiness, these are questions that every thoughtful person asks. Where, however, might a thoughtful person go for help in answering these questions? Thoughtful Christians, of course, go to the Bible, the

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  • Junk Science: When Buried Research Kills People

    Junk Science: When Buried Research Kills People0

    The New York Times last month reported on a study completed in 1973, the results of which had gone unpublished until recently. The story, headlined “A Study on Fats That Doesn’t Fit the Story Line,” explored a five-year double blind randomized controlled trial–the best method to determine if one thing causes another, according to Times reporter Aaron

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  • How Our Perception of Masculinity is Changing

    How Our Perception of Masculinity is Changing0

    In recent years, a mildly trending topic of discussion has been the question, “Where have all the men gone?” While there are a number of theories as to the answer, a British survey just released by YouGov may shed some light on the issue. Among other things, the survey asked participants about their impressions of

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  • Do Children Learn to Read Better From Their Parents?

    Do Children Learn to Read Better From Their Parents?0

    While paging through The Ordinary Parent’s Guide to Teaching Reading, I came across a fascinating little story from author Jessie Wise’s personal experience: “I was adopted by an elderly couple who had been educated in an isolated, rural one-room schoolhouse. By her eighth and final year of school, Meme had studied algebra, Latin, and the

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  • Death By Government: The Primary Fact of the 20th Century

    Death By Government: The Primary Fact of the 20th Century0

    It was in June 1996 that I picked up a book that, for all intents and purposes, changed my life: R.J. Rummel’s Death by Government (Transaction, 1994). After purchasing the book, I devoured it on a flight from Houston to Indianapolis. Every anti-Communist thought my mother had so rightly drilled into me as a child, every viewing of The Killing

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  • Chesterton’s Take on Oscar Wilde

    Chesterton’s Take on Oscar Wilde0

    Oscar Wilde’s literally genius can be found in many literary styles, but it was his use of paradox that truly set him apart from all others. The possible exception to this, of course, was a contemporary of Wilde’s: G.K. Chesterton. In many ways—politics, temperament, religion, and taste in art—the two men could not have been

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  • 4 Blasphemies From John Stuart Mill on Public Education

    4 Blasphemies From John Stuart Mill on Public Education0

    On May 20th, 1806, one of the great philosophers of the 19th century was born: John Stuart Mill. Known for his promotion of utilitarianism, a philosophy declaring that “actions are right in proportion as they tend to promote happiness; wrong as they tend to produce the reverse of happiness,” Mill also penned a number of

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