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15 Things You Should Know about the 2018 Partial Government Shutdown 0
- Economics
- December 27, 2018
1. What just happened? On Friday, the federal government entered a partial shutdown after the Senate failed to pass a spending bill that includes border wall funding. President Trump refuses to sign any additional funding that does not include $5.1 billion in additional money to pay for an extension of the border wall, allowing him
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Why (Most) Right-Wing Intellectuals Hate Trump 0
- Education
- December 26, 2018
More than two years into President Trump’s historic presidency, it behooves us to think more deeply about a persistent sticking point in the political life of the nation: Why do (most) right-wing intellectuals loathe him? This kind of nearly unified opposition cries out for explanation. After all, it is not simply that all left-wing
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The Ongoing Decline of the American Male 0
- Culture
- December 26, 2018
“We make men without chests and expect of them virtue and enterprise. We laugh at honor and are shocked to find traitors in our midst. We castrate and bid the geldings be fruitful.” ~ C.S. Lewis, The Abolition Of Man In the movie Falling Down, Bill Foster (Michael Douglas) is a defense engineer who has lost
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Teacher: Stroking Egos Does Nothing for Students. Raising Expectations Does.0
- Education
- December 26, 2018
Armed with a bachelor of science in elementary education, I charged into my career as a teacher. I was immediately exposed to students at three levels of public schools: A rather wealthy district with an average IQ of 120. A classic, middle-class school. A school that is best described as a mini United Nations. In
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Saying You’re Against Fascists Doesn’t Excuse Acting Like One 0
- Culture
- December 26, 2018
On March 23, 1919, Benito Mussolini, an Italian veteran of the Great War and a publisher of socialist newspapers, created the Fasci di Combattimento (commonly known as the Fascist Party) with the help of a few syndicalist friends. Nearly one hundred years later, the word fascism remains at the forefront of our political discourse even though fascism
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How America Grew Bored with Love 0
- Culture
- December 26, 2018
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Three Dangerous Philosophical Novels 1
- Culture
- December 21, 2018
“I choose novels that let me turn my brain off,” a student confessed to me. My immediate response was to chastise her, “You did not receive a brain so that it could be turned off.” However, that evening I found myself streaming an old sitcom episode while washing dishes instead of listening to the dozen
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The Great War Christmas Truce: ‘They Were Positively Human’0
- Culture
- December 21, 2018
A 19th-century peace activist once asked, “Is it possible that any Christian, of whatever sect, who believes the New Testament to be anything better than a fable, can doubt for a moment that the time will come when all the kingdoms of the earth shall be at peace?” Jesus Christ, as both a religious and
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The Cultivation of Christmas Trees 0
- Culture
- December 21, 2018
There are several attitudes towards Christmas, Some of which we may disregard: The social, the torpid, the patently commercial, The rowdy (the pubs being open till midnight), And the childish — which is not that of the child For whom the candle is a star, and the gilded angel Spreading its wings at the summit
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