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  • Chesterton Defends the Crusades

    Chesterton Defends the Crusades0

    The Crusades are often used as a cudgel in an attempt to paint Christianity as barbaric, hypocritical, and ultimately dismissible. Doing so, of course, isn’t new. G.K. Chesterton, the prolific author who lived at the turn of the last century, encountered the argument as well. His response found in The Way of the Desert, the

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  • Are Students Secretly Longing for Discipline and Order?

    Are Students Secretly Longing for Discipline and Order?0

    Earlier this week we noted how lax student discipline policies are making it difficult for many students to learn. Yet these policies continue on in the name of sensitivity and equity.  But is it possible that those acting up and disrupting class are secretly longing for discipline, order, and stability? That seems to be the

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  • 5 Logic Fails That Are WAY Too Common

    5 Logic Fails That Are WAY Too Common0

    In her famous 1947 essay “The Lost Tools of Learning,” Dorothy Sayers wrote:     “Has it ever struck you as odd, or unfortunate, that today, when the proportion of literacy throughout Western Europe is higher than it has ever been, people should have become susceptible to the influence of advertisement and mass propaganda to

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  • One Recommendation for Being a Good Debater

    One Recommendation for Being a Good Debater0

    Quite often we approach a debate as gladiatorial matches in which the goal is to utterly eviscerate our opponents.  But is that always best? Do we lose a little bit of our own humanity when we see individuals or even friends and family members as people to destroy in a discussion? It’s true that they

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  • Kate Winslet Thinks Fixating on Gender Pay Gap is “Vulgar”

    Kate Winslet Thinks Fixating on Gender Pay Gap is “Vulgar”0

    Actress Kate Winslet is the latest to weigh in on the gender pay gap… only she isn’t complaining about being paid less than her male counterparts. Instead, Winslet is bringing a touch of etiquette into the debate. As the BBC reports: “‘I’m having such a problem with these conversations,’ Kate tells Newsbeat. ‘I understand why

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  • Is this where equality takes us?

    Is this where equality takes us?0

    Making the rounds recently was a story out of Colorado Springs about the discriminatory nature of the police fitness test. From CBS Denver: “Last Friday the Colorado Springs Police Department agreed to the demands of 12 female officers who filed a civil suit claiming the fitness tests are discriminatory. All the officers were over the

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  • How Much Data Does the Government Have on Your Child?

    How Much Data Does the Government Have on Your Child?0

    • November 12, 2015

    Have you ever wondered what the government knows about your child? According to an article in today’s Washington Post they may know a lot more than you realize… and that knowledge may negatively affect your child’s future. “Most student data is gathered at school via multiple routes; either through children’s online usage or information provided

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  • Why You Should Stay in Your Hometown

    Why You Should Stay in Your Hometown0

    On the whole, it would appear to be for the best that the great majority of human beings should go on living in the place in which they were born. —T.S. Eliot, Notes towards the Definition of Culture Americans have never learned to cherish permanence. Alexis de Tocqueville once said that an American will build

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  • What Teddy Roosevelt Might Have Said About Those Starbucks Cups

    What Teddy Roosevelt Might Have Said About Those Starbucks Cups0

    I’ve ignored most of the controversy over Starbucks dropping holiday-themed designs on its cups because, well, it’s stupid, and probably media-fabricated. It’s not that I don’t lament the decline of communally celebrated feasts; it’s just that I wasn’t really depending on a Seattle-based coffee company to revive the sanctity of Christmas… with cups decorated with

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