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  • Why ‘Black and Orange Spirit Day’ is Now a Thing

    Why ‘Black and Orange Spirit Day’ is Now a Thing0

    • October 30, 2017

    A Massachusetts elementary school recently made national headlines after canceling its annual Halloween costume parade and announcing it would henceforth observe “Black and Orange Spirit Day.” “[T]he costume parade is out of our ordinary routine and can be difficult for many students,” Brendan Dearborn, principal at Boyden Elementary School principal, wrote to parents. “Also, the

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  • The Misguided Campaign to Remove this Thomas Hart Benton Mural

    The Misguided Campaign to Remove this Thomas Hart Benton Mural0

    In recent years, people have protested the racism of Confederate statues, Hollywood and sports mascots. But a curious campaign has taken place on Indiana University’s Bloomington campus. Students have circulated petitions and organized protests seeking the removal or destruction of painter Thomas Hart Benton’s 1933 mural “A Social History of Indiana,” which contains an image

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  • Is Halloween a Christian Holiday?

    Is Halloween a Christian Holiday?0

    Conventional wisdom holds that Halloween is essentially a secular and pagan holiday, the result of the Christian Church appropriating an ancient Celtic harvest festival. But one strain of critical opinion tends to the view that the holiday was thoroughly Christian from the start. In the church calendar, Halloween (All Hallows’ Eve) is the beginning of

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  • The World’s Poorest People Are Getting Richer Faster than Anyone Else

    The World’s Poorest People Are Getting Richer Faster than Anyone Else0

    Last Tuesday marked the 25th anniversary of the United Nations’ International Day for the Eradication of Poverty. The date intentionally coincides with the 30th anniversary of the Call to Action, which saw the French anti-poverty campaigner Father Joseph Wresinski ask the international community, in front of 100,000 Parisians, to “strive to eradicate extreme poverty”. To mark

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  • The 5 Things Men and Women Should Look for in a Mate

    The 5 Things Men and Women Should Look for in a Mate0

    It’s no secret that marriage rates are declining. Recent data from Pew shows that between 1960 and 2016, marriage rates for those 18 and older fell from 72 percent to 50 percent. There are many theories on why this is. The rise of cohabitation and the fear of divorce. The increase in education attainment. The

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  • One Principal’s Surprising Advice to School Administrators

    One Principal’s Surprising Advice to School Administrators0

    Advice on how to improve schools is a dime a dozen. Teach math earlier. Start the school day later. Read more books. School year round. And the list goes on. All these suggestions are worth a try and may prove to be quite helpful. But do they treat the symptoms rather than one of the

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  • Obama Justice Department’s $1 Billion ‘Slush Fund’ Boosted Liberal Groups

    Obama Justice Department’s $1 Billion ‘Slush Fund’ Boosted Liberal Groups0

    President Barack Obama’s Justice Department created a “slush fund” of nearly $1 billion using legal settlements with banks and steered those funds to political allies on the left while excluding conservative groups, internal documents show. Tony West, an associate attorney general during the Obama administration who is now a top official at PepsiCo Inc., figures

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  • Inquisition Torture: Not what you think?

    Inquisition Torture: Not what you think?0

    It is almost fifty years since the “Spanish Inquisition” sketch by Monty Python’s Flying Circus was first aired on British television. Today its catchphrase, “Nobody expects the Spanish Inquisition,” has an enshrined place in popular culture. It is, however, ironic that the well-known catchphrase contradicts the grim reality of life in our increasingly secular culture.

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  • Escape the Moral Matrix with the Red Pill of Intellectual Diversity

    Escape the Moral Matrix with the Red Pill of Intellectual Diversity0

    Back in 2012, before the ascendance of Donald Trump to the U.S. presidency and before neologisms such as “trigger warnings,” “microaggressions, and “safe spaces” became part of regular college campus discourse, New York University social psychologist Jonathan Haidt published a groundbreaking book titled The Righteous Mind: Why Good People Are Divided by Politics and Religion.

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