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How Ice Cream Won the Cold War0
- Economics
- March 18, 2016
Richard Nixon stood by a lemon-yellow refrigerator in Moscow and bragged to the Soviet leader: “The American system,” he told Nikita Khrushchev over frosted cupcakes and chocolate layer cake, “is designed to take advantage of new inventions.” It was the opening day of the American National Exhibition at Sokol’niki Park, and Nixon was representing not
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Here’s Why We’re Drowning in Information0
- Education
- March 18, 2016
We’ve often quoted T.S. Eliot’s famous lines from Choruses from the Rock as descriptive of our current age: Where is the Life we have lost in living? Where is the wisdom we have lost in knowledge? Where is the knowledge we have lost in information? It is frequently remarked that people are “drowning in information” in
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Does Homeschooling Give Children More Room to Excel?0
- Education
- March 18, 2016
Many homeschooled children continue to demonstrate impressive academic feats. The latest example is a homeschooled Minnesota teen who became one of a very small number of students to achieve a perfect score on the ACT. As Fox 9 reports, Sam Mansfield scored a 36 on the February ACT. According to the testing service, of the
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You Can’t Have Social Justice without Free Speech0
- Culture
- March 17, 2016
Cases of college students demanding restrictions on free expression are making the news on a weekly basis. While much criticism has been directed at student calls for “trigger warnings,” “safe spaces,” and the “right not to be offended,” less has been said about the impetus behind this advocacy. If we assume the best of those
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Teacher: Making Things Fosters Entrepreneurial Thinking in Children0
- Culture
- March 17, 2016
Several days ago, we mentioned 1916 author William Stout, who advocated for young boys to build and create toys on their own. Stout believed that the ability to create and make things gets boys thinking, and fosters the ideas which can eventually spur the growth of the country. Although written a century ago, Stout’s reasoning
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St. Patrick didn’t Drive Out the Snakes0
- Culture
- March 17, 2016
A common myth that has persisted for 1,500 years is that St. Patrick drove out the snakes of Ireland. That is simply not the case. He did do a great many of things, but that is not one of them. A Treasury of Irish Folklore (1967) sheds some light upon a possible reason for the
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Republican Establishment Fulfills Caricature of Itself0
- Culture
- March 17, 2016
Long has the Republican establishment been equated with out-of-touch, country-club types by the popular culture. While the base of the Republican party hardly comes close to such a demographic, a new clip from Showtimes “The Circus” might reveal that the popular caricature is more accurate than the establishment might want to meet. It also reveals,
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Feminist: Women Can’t Have It All0
- Culture
- March 17, 2016
If you really want to see a heated debate, don’t bother with politics. Find a “mommy blog” and look for a thread or post on working moms vs. stay-at-home moms. You can almost be guaranteed that the comments will be filled with some of the most vicious vitriol you’ve ever seen. Ever since women started
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Female Reporter Asks: “Is It Just Me, or Have Men Gotten Really Soft?”2
- Culture
- March 17, 2016
Last week, Tomi Lahren, a 23-year-old political commentator for The Blaze, ended her show by raising the following question: “Is it just me, or have men gotten really soft these days?” She goes on: “This has nothing to do with sexuality. It has to do with the helplessness of today’s young men. It seems few
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