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  • Yale Students Petition to ‘Abolish’ Major English Poets

    Yale Students Petition to ‘Abolish’ Major English Poets0

    The petition starts out polite enough. “We, undergraduate students in the Yale English Department, write to urge the faculty to reevaluate the undergraduate curriculum.” Then it gets a little chippy. We oppose the continued existence of the Major English Poets sequence as the primary prerequisite for further study. It is unacceptable that a Yale student

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  • The Dangers of ‘Hate Speech’ Rules

    The Dangers of ‘Hate Speech’ Rules0

    Russell Kirk argued that to engage in politics and ideas we must “draw the sword of imagination”. By that he meant, we must imagine all the ways in which a policy or an idea may do either good or harm. Recently, Facebook, Twitter, and other social media giants announced that they will be working with

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  • The ‘Everyone Gets a Trophy’ Mentality is Out of Control

    The ‘Everyone Gets a Trophy’ Mentality is Out of Control0

    Mark up another victory for the “everyone-gets-a-trophy” mentality. The latest victim of this mindset is a high school honor student from Texas. A local ABC news affiliate reports: “National Honor Society (NHS) stoles are frequent sight at high school graduation ceremonies around the country, but one Plano Senior High School student is frustrated that he

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  • Chores: The Canary in the Coal Mine of Kids’ Character

    Chores: The Canary in the Coal Mine of Kids’ Character0

    Business Insider ran a list of 13 things parents can do to turn their child into a successful adult. The first item on the list was to make a child do chores. Given the fact that only 28 percent of parents require their children to do chores, it seems that we’re destined for a generation

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  • Are Parents Training Children to be Inattentive?

    Are Parents Training Children to be Inattentive?0

    When I was still in high school, a local private grade school invited me to become one of their piano teachers. Needless to say, I was nervous, but quite excited about the opportunity. I soon found out that while some of my students loved piano and entered wholeheartedly into practicing, others absolutely did not. In

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  • America’s Opioid Addiction Is Worse Than You Think

    America’s Opioid Addiction Is Worse Than You Think0

    By now, most Americans know that the United States has seen a sharp increase in opioid-overdose deaths over the past decade. The opioid problem is indeed global. In Afghanistan, for example, a major if not the major source of funding for the Taliban is the sale of poppies, the opium derived from them, and the chemical paste containing it, which are the materials for making heroin. But

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  • A Bunch of Burke Quotes

    A Bunch of Burke Quotes0

    Bad laws are the worst sort of tyranny.   To tax and to please, no more than to love and to be wise, is not given to men.   The concessions of the weak are the concessions of fear.   The use of force alone is but temporary. It may subdue for a moment; but

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  • Why Did Dante’s Inferno Have a Real-Life Saint in Hell?

    Why Did Dante’s Inferno Have a Real-Life Saint in Hell?0

    If one were asked to name the greatest work of literature of all time, there would be only a handful of serious contenders. Both of Homer’s classics would make the short list. Perhaps Virgil’s epic would also qualify. Possibly one or two of Shakespeare’s tragedies. And there is little doubt that Dante’s magnum opus, The

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  • Which Roman Emperor Are You?

    Which Roman Emperor Are You?0

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