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  • John Taylor Gatto (1935-2018): Remembering America’s Most Courageous Teacher

    John Taylor Gatto (1935-2018): Remembering America’s Most Courageous Teacher0

    It is with a heavy heart that we mourn the passing of a revolutionary educator, John Taylor Gatto. Gatto spent nearly 30 years as a teacher in the infamously rough New York City public school system. He was awarded New York City Teacher of the Year three consecutive years while also being recognized as New

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  • Birthright Citizenship: Should We Keep It?

    Birthright Citizenship: Should We Keep It?0

    One vexing current problem centers on who becomes the citizen of a given country, since citizenship confers voting rights. The Anglo-American model, in which every baby born in the country’s land area automatically becomes a citizen, clearly invites welfare immigration by expectant parents. In the U.S., for example, a current problem is illegal immigrants whose

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  • 3 Reasons Not to Make Your Kids Share Their Toys

    3 Reasons Not to Make Your Kids Share Their Toys0

    I don’t make my kids share their toys. I arrived at this decision after careful consideration. Unfortunately, that decision isn’t an easy one to discuss with other parents, mostly because it appears that my stance endorses selfishness. Nothing could be further from the truth. Like many other parents, I think it’s very important to teach

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  • Physician: Sex Changes Are Not the Common Sense Approach to Gender Dysphoria in Kids

    Physician: Sex Changes Are Not the Common Sense Approach to Gender Dysphoria in Kids0

    Love, affirmation, and acceptance seem to be the name of the game these days, especially when it comes to anything concerning gender identity. Such a view is taking hold not only in the political world, but in the scientific and research world as well. This fact is underscored by a recent policy statement from the

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  • Michael Scott and the NPC Life We Can All Fall Into

    Michael Scott and the NPC Life We Can All Fall Into0

    Continuing the trend of social media purging, Twitter has banned “hundreds of right-wing accounts for posing as soulless, ‘nonplayable’ liberal activists”—otherwise known as NPC accounts. Twitter claimed these accounts violated their rules of “intentionally misleading election-related content.” The term non-player character (NPC) comes from the world of video games. An NPC is a character not controlled by

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  • Men and Women: Should We Just Call the Whole Thing Off?

    Men and Women: Should We Just Call the Whole Thing Off?0

    Marriage is in decline. This fact is by now so familiar to conservatives that they may be tempted to gloss over an interesting shift in the manner of marriage’s decline. Thirty years ago, Americans were getting married but not staying that way. Today divorce rates are down but wedding bells are also in less demand. Growing numbers of

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  • How Dumbed Down Education is Creating a National Security Crisis

    How Dumbed Down Education is Creating a National Security Crisis0

    In Wind Sprints: Shorter Essays, Joseph Epstein, one of America’s great essayists, includes a piece “How I Learned to Love the Draft” in which he offered his reasons for the restoration of compulsory military service. After reading Epstein’s reasons for bringing back the draft—the exposure of young people to contemporaries from all backgrounds, a greater

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  • Caravan Contradictions

    Caravan Contradictions0

    A “caravan”—the euphemism for a current foot-army of more than 10,000 Central Americans—of would-be border crossers has now passed into Mexico. The marchers promise they will continue 1,000 miles and more northward to the U.S. border, despite warnings from President Trump that as unauthorized immigrants they will be turned away. No one has yet explained how,

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  • Why Thomas Merton Renounced Communism: 6 Lessons We Can Learn Today

    Why Thomas Merton Renounced Communism: 6 Lessons We Can Learn Today0

    Thomas Merton was a Trappist monk and one of the most important Catholic writers of the 20th century. He was the author of over 60 books; the best known being The Seven Storey Mountain which is an autobiographical account of his search for faith. Published in 1948, The Seven Storey Mountain is a modern classic,

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