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  • Education Is Not About Your ‘Lived Reality’

    Education Is Not About Your ‘Lived Reality’0

    Three years ago, I was smeared before all the students, professors, and staff members of Providence College, where I had taught since 1990. That was some 5,000 people. The authors of the smear were the president of the college, whose final term expires next spring, and the vice president, who will be taking over for

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  • Bring Back the Family Dinner

    Bring Back the Family Dinner0

    Growing up, my parents put a premium on ensuring we had family dinners together almost every night. These dinners were times to check in on how we kids were doing in school, talk about problems, discuss sports, books, friends, and, starting in high school, politics as well. Although high school sports did cut down on

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  • Avoiding Stupidity in the Age of Pregnant and Period-Producing Men

    Avoiding Stupidity in the Age of Pregnant and Period-Producing Men0

    There are a lot of unbelievable things happening in our world today. So many, that it’s easy to ignore them as they whip by us like the Wicked Witch of the West’s hoard of flying monkeys. But some things are just too remarkable to ignore. The ACLU’s tweet for International Men’s Day is one of

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  • Triggered: An Experiment

    Triggered: An Experiment0

    “When I hear the word culture, I reach for my revolver.” Tonight, for no reason in particular, that line drifted up from the rubbish pit of my brain, that junk yard containing such bits and pieces of poetry learned in elementary school, admonitions from my mother, swimming pool songs from high school, and old Mustang

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  • The Secular Religion of Socialism

    The Secular Religion of Socialism0

    It’s the end of the world as we know it and we don’t feel fine. We see it in the “how dare you” of Greta Thunberg and in Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez’s lament over colonialism, climate change, and the impact on her future children. It shows up in the condemnation of national sovereignty movements by Pope Francis,

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  • Solar Panels Literally Produce Tons of Toxic Waste

    Solar Panels Literally Produce Tons of Toxic Waste1

    A Popular Choice Solar panels have been heralded as the alternative to fossil fuels for decades. Most readers have likely seen exciting headlines claiming we could power the world’s energy demands multiple times were we simply to cover the Sahara Desert with a solar farm the size of China. The fact that such endeavors would

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  • How Many People Must Die to Fix the Planet?

    How Many People Must Die to Fix the Planet?0

    On the 40th anniversary of the first world climate conference in 1979, the journal Bioscience published the ominously titled “World Scientists’ Warning of a Climate Emergency.” “Scientists,” the Warning begins, “have a moral obligation to clearly warn humanity of any catastrophic threat and to ‘tell it like it is.’ On the basis of this obligation…we declare, with

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  • ‘Now I Know What Freedom Is’: One Young Man’s Escape From North Korea

    ‘Now I Know What Freedom Is’: One Young Man’s Escape From North Korea0

    Observers first see Ilhyeok Kim’s joyful, room-lighting smile before they notice he is relatively short—because he is North Korean defector short.  “For me, freedom means that when I want to do something, I’ll do it, and if I don’t want to do something, I don’t have to do it,” Kim told The Daily Signal last

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  • Why Do Teachers Make Us Read Old Books?

    Why Do Teachers Make Us Read Old Books?0

    There are probably as many reasons to read old stories as there are teachers. Old stories are sometimes strange. They display beliefs, values and ways of life that the reader may not recognize. As an English professor, I believe that there is value in reading stories from decades or even centuries ago. Teachers have their

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