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  • This great inventor only had 5 years of formal schooling

    This great inventor only had 5 years of formal schooling0

    If you’re a military-history buff, you’ve probably heard the name Hiram Maxim. If you haven’t, he is credited with inventing the Maxim machine gun in 1884, which substantially changed warfare with its ability to fire 600 rounds per minute. Now, the ingenuity of the Maxim machine gun reveals that odd contradiction of progress. On one

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  • This Family’s 7 Kids All Enrolled in College by Age 12?!?

    This Family’s 7 Kids All Enrolled in College by Age 12?!?0

    Today’s students are on a much more delayed educational schedule than in times past. Before the 20th century, students used to enroll in college around the age of 15. The Harding family of Alabama is witnessing to the previously more expedited educations in a remarkable way: their first seven children all enrolled in college by

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  • The Danger of Executive Action

    The Danger of Executive Action0

    We’ve come to a place in our political discourse when government action often is perceived as more important than respecting the traditions and institutions upon which that very government derives its authority. Many Americans are impatient with the process required by our system of checks and balances. The recent announcement by President Obama regarding his

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  • Huxley: Brave New World “Coming True Sooner Than I Thought”

    Huxley: Brave New World “Coming True Sooner Than I Thought”0

    In 1931, Aldous Huxley wrote Brave New World—a dystopian novel imagining a future in which people live in a highly organized society that they are conditioned to accept. In 1958, in Brave New World Revisited, he looked back on his novel and reflected on how accurate its predictions of the future had been (you can read the

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  • Chesterton and the Meaning of Education

    Chesterton and the Meaning of Education0

    “It is typical of our time,” Chesterton wrote, “that the more doubtful we are about the value of philosophy, the more certain we are about the value of education. That is to say, the more doubtful we are about whether we have any truth, the more certain we are (apparently) that we can teach it

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  • What American Education Has in Common with the Dark Ages

    What American Education Has in Common with the Dark Ages0

    The period of the “Dark Ages” is synonymous with cultural deterioration in the West. It is typically applied to those centuries following the fall of the Roman Empire at the end of the 5th century, and is regarded as a time when education dramatically declined. In his classic Education and Culture in the Barbarian West,

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  • Sociologist: “The World is More Religious Than It Has Ever Been”

    Sociologist: “The World is More Religious Than It Has Ever Been”0

    • January 4, 2016

    Many of us assume that the world is increasingly secular and decreasingly religious. But according to sociologist Rodney Stark, that’s just not true. His latest book, The Triumph of Faith: Why the World Is More Religious than Ever, begins with the following claim: “The world is more religious than it has ever been. Around the

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  • Pew Releases List of “Most Striking Findings” in 2015

    Pew Releases List of “Most Striking Findings” in 20150

    The Pew Research Center studies the trends that shape our world. They took a look back at 2015 and compiled their most striking findings. Here’s a list of 10 of their findings we think you may find interesting:   1. “Just 19% of Americans say they can trust the federal government always or most of

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  • Obamacare Spurring a Return to Health Care Co-ops

    Obamacare Spurring a Return to Health Care Co-ops0

    With the arrival of January 1st, many Americans are experiencing more than the turn of the New Year; they’re also experiencing major hikes in their insurance premiums. As Slate’s Helaine Olen puts it, “The bill for the health care expansion is coming due … [and] more than a few are likely to be annoyed.” But

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