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This National School Choice Week, Let’s Celebrate Return to Founding Principles0
- Education
- January 25, 2024
The school choice policies sweeping the nation may be among the most innovative—and promising—enacted in recent memory. Yet they also embody a return to principles first enshrined in American law nearly 400 years ago. In 1642, when the Massachusetts Bay Colony crafted the nation’s first education law, its objective was clear: Parents must educate their children. Echoing Moses’ exhortation to
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Privacy in Xinjiang: A Cautionary Tale for America2
- Culture, International
- January 24, 2024
The Chinese government has wedded totalitarian ambitions with high-tech surveillance technology, conducting a slow cultural genocide of the Uyghur Muslim population in the Xinjiang region of China. The genocide is cultural because the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) is not outright killing the Uyghurs. Instead, they are waging a war of slow attrition. The CCP punishes
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100 Canadian Churches Torched or Damaged Following Indian Residential School Graves Hoax2
- Culture, Featured, International, Religion
- January 24, 2024
To its credit, the London-based tabloid newspaper The Daily Mail recently carried a story most corporate news outlets have been avoiding: The Indian Residential School Graves hoax. The paper, whose article titles are characteristically long and descriptive, leaves little mystery in the scandalous story’s headline: “Nearly ONE HUNDRED churches across Canada have been torched or
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The Musical Heroism of Guido d’Arezzo1
- Culture, History, Western Civilization
- January 24, 2024
Of all living things, only humans seem to have the drive and capacity for documentation, record-keeping, and writing for the purposes of porting information and wisdom to others with the hope of influencing and binding the future. We’ve done this since the beginning of recorded history, from cave dwellings to the Code of Hammurabi through
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The Fruits of Freedom: Barbara Feigin’s ‘My American Dream’0
- Culture
- January 23, 2024
In her recently published memoir My American Dream: A Journey From Fascism to Freedom, Barbara Sommer Feigin begins by recounting her escape in 1940 as a 2-year-old from Nazi Germany to the United States. She recreates this trek, which ran from Europe across Russia to Japan and then to America, using a journal her father
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More Gender Activists Than Medical Professionals on WHO Transgender Health Panel0
Last month, the World Health Organization (WHO) announced that it had formed a Guideline Development Group made up of 21 members tasked with writing WHO guidelines on “the health of trans and gender diverse people.” As a specialized agency of the United Nations responsible for international public health, WHO is looked to by most of
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‘People Will Die Due to DEI’: Aviation in the Spotlight After Alaska Airlines Fuselage Blowout5
- Culture
- January 23, 2024
“Do you want to fly in an airplane where they prioritized DEI hiring over your safety?” This was the question posed by tech tycoon Elon Musk on X, after a piece of fuselage was ripped from an Alaska Airlines passenger jet in the skies above Oregon last Friday. “People will die due to DEI,” Musk also warned. The
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Poetry in Prose: The Genius of J.R.R. Tolkien1
- Literature, Featured
- January 22, 2024
Young John Ronald Reuel Tolkien curled up with his favorite book, reading the tale of Sigurd who slew the dragon Fafnir. Schooled at home, Tolkien’s widowed mother taught him Latin and French and grammar, explaining that “green great dragon” was incorrect—it should be “great green dragon.” Tolkien wanted to know why. Language fascinated him. After
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Toronto Bans Tobogganing — and Fun?0
Talk about a slippery slope. Toronto recently erected “Tobogganing is not allowed” warnings on 45 hills around the city. The reason for these bans is right there on the sign: “Hazards such as trees, stumps, rocks, rivers or roads make this hill unsafe.” So apparently it is only safe for humans to enjoy an activity
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