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Blog 3 Columns

  • The Tyranny of Equality in Education

    The Tyranny of Equality in Education5

    It’s growing increasingly clear that America’s students aren’t the little geniuses we’ve always thought them to be. School after school in states across the country produce abysmally poor results. In fact, many schools are lucky if their students achieve more than 50% proficiency in the basics of reading, math, and science. Such a scenario calls

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  • With Euthanasia Soon Available for Drug Addicts, What Is the Value of Life in Canada?

    With Euthanasia Soon Available for Drug Addicts, What Is the Value of Life in Canada?1

    In 2021, more than 10,000 Canadians were euthanized—a tenfold increase from 2016 when the practice was first legalized. Assisted suicide was originally adopted in Canada as a solution for people facing “intolerable suffering” from “a grievous and irremediable medical condition” with a “reasonably foreseeable” death. Soon after, euthanasia was made available for people whose deaths

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  • Teaching Children to Self-Entertain

    Teaching Children to Self-Entertain2

    Teaching children to self-entertain is key to traditional parenting. While I totally understand the desire to occasionally use technology and screens as “babysitters,” shouldn’t parents aim to instill more sustainable and healthier alternatives? In comes teaching children to self-entertain! Essentially, self-entertainment means kids keeping themselves appropriately occupied while a parent’s attention is elsewhere. As much

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  • 3 Missteps of the Education System According to Mike Rowe

    3 Missteps of the Education System According to Mike Rowe1

    Everybody loves Mike Rowe. His matter-of-fact sense of humor, his humility, and his willingness to get involved in the many work sites featured on his “Dirty Jobs” show make him an endearing figure. But Rowe is also very intelligent. He has his finger on the pulse and problems of America in a way that many

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  • Good and Evil Never Went Away. But We Did.

    Good and Evil Never Went Away. But We Did.2

    The cold-blooded murder of hundreds of Israelis—men, women, children, and babies—by Hamas terrorists brought a universal outcry of shock and horror from the vast majority of Americans, whatever their politics. There were exceptions, of course. Across the country were scattered rallies for Palestine. At Harvard University, the Palestine Solidarity Committee (PSC) and 30 other student

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  • Why Did Elite Students Cheer the Atrocities of Hamas?

    Why Did Elite Students Cheer the Atrocities of Hamas?3

    I had worked hard for nearly two years, for the sole purpose of infusing life into an inanimate body. For this I had deprived myself of rest and health. I had desired it with an ardour that far exceeded moderation; but now that I had finished, the beauty of the dream vanished, and breathless horror

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