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  • Anthropological Architecture

    Anthropological Architecture0

    People love good streets. Americans who visit Europe often spend days simply wandering the winding streets of small towns (like this street in Bayeux, France), taking photographs, shopping in open-air markets, and experiencing a keen enjoyment of spaces—an enjoyment missing from the suburban streets of their own cities and neighborhoods (like this one near my

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  • Why Teachers Should Be Stingy with Praise

    Why Teachers Should Be Stingy with Praise0

    I’ve gotten several emails about this article by Joanne Lipman in the Wall Street Journal. The bottom line is that the teachers who get the best results are all about really tough love. The best way to motivate students is to challenge them with realistic (and therefore tough) assessments of their shortcomings. It’s a good idea to shout

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  • Why Chesterton Appreciated Paganism

    Why Chesterton Appreciated Paganism0

    For more than thirty years G. K. Chesterton wrote a weekly essay for the Illustrated London News. In a 1932 piece, now known as “The Loss of True Paganism,” Chesterton took note of a phenomenon that is still very much with us today. The phenomenon in question was the decline of religious belief and religious practice

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  • Majority of Public Employees Don’t Want to Be Forced to Pay Union Dues

    Majority of Public Employees Don’t Want to Be Forced to Pay Union Dues0

    It’s National Employee Freedom Week, and a majority of public-sector union members agree with a recent Supreme Court ruling banning the collection of fees without express consent, according to a just-released poll. The case, Janus v. American Federation of State, County, and Municipal Employees, was brought against government unions for charging non-members “agency fees.” In

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  • Is Killing a Tyrant Ever Justified?

    Is Killing a Tyrant Ever Justified?0

    In his work De rege et regis institutione (1599), Jesuit priest Juan de Mariana examines the limits of political power, which, in sixteenth-century Europe, was exercised by monarchs. According to Mariana, monarchs should be subject to the same moral standards as the governed. Should they deviate from the principles of natural law by confiscating the

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  • 3 Super Simple Ways to Teach your Kids About Delayed Gratification

    3 Super Simple Ways to Teach your Kids About Delayed Gratification0

    Delayed gratification seems to be the parenting buzz word of the moment. In every in-depth conversation I’ve had with fellow moms in the last year, this has come up as one of those “important things” we need to teach our kids. In an age of abundance, how do we teach children to value their belongings?

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  • Why Education is the ‘Fraud of the Age’

    Why Education is the ‘Fraud of the Age’1

    There’s always something thrilling about the start of a new school year or semester. New clothes to wear. Fresh books to explore. New teachers to meet. It’s all become a part of what we call back-to-school and the education experience. Of course, many of us will quickly agree that the new books and clothes aren’t

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  • When Will Men in Hats Come Back?

    When Will Men in Hats Come Back?3

    Whatever happened to the hat? Whither the fedora? Where have they stashed the Stetsons? Who has banished the boater and trashed the tweed cap? Why is a “Deerstalker” considered a Vietnam movie and a “Panama” no more than a canal? Who can resist the gritty allure of the gumshoe Bogart tugging at the brim of

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  • Silent Sam’s Last Stand?

    Silent Sam’s Last Stand?0

    Silent Sam, the statue of a weary, stoic Confederate Army foot soldier, came crashing down Monday night, pulled down from his post at the edge of the UNC-Chapel Hill campus by a howling mob of protesters. But a lot more fell than a Progressive-era statue of a Confederate soldier. Another brick in the wall that

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