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  • Venezuela’s Default Disaster

    Venezuela’s Default Disaster0

    Socialism always promises heaven and gives hell. In the early hours of Thursday, November 2, the Maduro regime certified its latest failure with what they promised would never happen: technical default. With his usual arrogance, Maduro issued a “decree” demanding “the refinancing and restructuring of the debt as of November 3.” That is, default. The bad news for

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  • The Two Biggest Weaknesses of Millennials’ Education

    The Two Biggest Weaknesses of Millennials’ Education0

    It’s heartening to see an educator do what law professor Adam J. MacLeod describes doing in a recent article entitled “Undoing the Dis-Education of Millennials.” At a certain level, teaching best starts with un-teaching. A disclaimer is in order, of course: Not all millennials need to be un-taught things they’ve learned before they are taught

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  • Psychologist: What is the role of the father?

    Psychologist: What is the role of the father?0

    Study after study shows the tremendously negative impact of not having a father present during childhood. While the damage is especially evident with boys, girls also suffer the consequences — hence the unfortunate phrase, “She has daddy issues.” Despite the significant evidence that biological fathers are critical to healthy childhood development, our culture doesn’t seem to

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  • Progress Comes Through Conflict?

    Progress Comes Through Conflict?0

    When we pontificate upon or dream of further human progress, it is often accompanied by utopian images of peace, equality, and tolerance. And yet if we look to the past to measure human progress we find not peace and equality, but rather conflict and intolerance. In The Devil’s Pleasure Palace, author Michael Walsh makes this

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  • Ivy League Prof Dishes on How to Get a Good College Education

    Ivy League Prof Dishes on How to Get a Good College Education0

    I recently revisited an article written by Jeffrey Hart some eleven years ago. Hart is an emeritus professor of English at Dartmouth College, and was a senior editor at National Review magazine back when that magazine was as concerned about culture as politics. He reminisces about a freshman composition course he taught at his Ivy League

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  • Canadian T.A. Reveals that Objective Truth is Not the Goal of Higher Education

    Canadian T.A. Reveals that Objective Truth is Not the Goal of Higher Education0

    Look at the majority of students in higher education today and one will come away with the idea that they are unable to handle debate or uncomfortable ideas. But Lindsay Shepherd is challenging that stereotype. Shepherd is a master’s student at Wilfrid Laurier University in Canada. As the teaching assistant in a class on critical

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  • 5 Ways to Not Let Politics Ruin Thanksgiving

    5 Ways to Not Let Politics Ruin Thanksgiving0

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  • ‘I Love You Daddy’ is a Triumph of Relativism

    ‘I Love You Daddy’ is a Triumph of Relativism0

    When a New York Times story brought allegations of sexual harassment against vulgar-yet-brilliant comedian Louis C.K. last week, the theatrical distribution deal for I Love You, Daddy, a film he secretly wrote, directed, starred in, and edited last year, was quickly cancelled.   I Love You, Daddy tells the story of Glen, a successful television

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  • We Need a New Elite

    We Need a New Elite0

    On the heels of learning that Harvey Weinstein is more likely a talented sexual predator than a Hollywood god, we find out that Bill O’Reilly settled a sexual harassment allegation for $32 million and that the prominent political journalist Mark Halperin is also alleged to have both sexually harassed and, perhaps, even assaulted young women

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