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Are We Too Smart for Our Own Good?0
When I was a kid in Boonville, N.C., I’d occasionally hear a grownup say, “He ain’t got a lick of sense,” meaning someone had just done something really stupid. I’d also hear, “That old boy’s too smart for his own good,” meaning someone with an overabundance of brains unchecked by common sense can bring himself
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MLK Day: The Last Bastion of Boomer Wokism0
Martin Luther King Jr.’s famous speech at the Lincoln Memorial during the March on Washington in 1963 sounds innocent enough. Indeed, it sounds so uncontroversial that many conservatives and conservative groups are fond of quoting it as a gotcha against the farthest fringes of recent woke race theory. “I have a dream that my four
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The Shrinking Truth Horizon0
- Culture, Featured, Philosophy
- January 21, 2026
In a recent article for Plough, Paul Kingsnorth posed the following question: “How long will it be, after all, before AI manipulation means that we cannot trust anything we read, see, or hear online? Months? A year?” Already, AI can generate text, audio, and video that can only barely be distinguished from human-produced content. “Deep fakes” abound.
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‘Socialization’ Depends on Who’s Doing the Socializing0
I was conversing with an 80-year-old neighbor recently who taught and coached for decades in public schools in New York City and here in Virginia. When I mentioned having taught seminars in literature, history, and Latin to homeschoolers, he instantly brought up socialization, a word I’ve heard linked to homeschoolers since my wife and I
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Pronatalism Without Morals Disintegrates in Real Time0
Elon Musk, a vocal champion of large families, is now in a custody battle with the most recent mother of his children. Musk is no stranger to such battles. He is estranged from his transgender-identified son who publicly calls him a “pathetic man-child.” He fought a years-long custody battle with one of his wives, the mother of
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The Conservative “Civil War” and the Losing Politics of Cynicism0
A number of media outlets are gleefully running headlines about a “civil war” within the conservative movement in America. While the term “civil war” is a little overblown, it’s true that fissures and fractures are appearing on the right, with prominent conservative voices – many of whom were formerly allied – turning on and denouncing
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The Case for AI Literacy in a Skeptical Age0
The artificial intelligence debate is immediately polarizing. We’ve all heard our family or friends talk about it. AI is either seen as a boon or met with severe pessimism. But there’s a middle ground worth considering. This isn’t about championing AI as the solution to all our problems. Rather, it’s about realizing that AI literacy
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Taking School to the Woods0
English philosopher John Locke once advised that children should have “shoes so thin, that they might leak and let in water, whenever he comes near it.” Yikes! I thought when I first read that passage in “Some Thoughts Concerning Education” years ago. The mother’s heart of caution within me still balks at that idea … but
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When Surfing the Real World Beats Surfing the Screen0
A few years ago, I took some adolescent grandchildren to the grocery store and was astonished by their wonderment. One had never set foot in a grocery store, and the others were infrequent visitors, to put it mildly. They learned some things that day, like how to pick out the best bunch of bananas and
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