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  • ‘Micro’ K-12 Schools Offer Big Solutions for Students

    ‘Micro’ K-12 Schools Offer Big Solutions for Students0

    New research estimates that some students’ grades will never catch back up after falling during the pandemic. Recently, some in the mainstream media worried that the federal taxpayer money that lawmakers sent to K-12 schools during COVID-19 may not be enough to help schools turn things around. But public schools—also known as “assigned” schools—had money before the pandemic, and

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  • The Ongoing ‘Mainstream Media Bloodbath’ Is a Win for Truth

    The Ongoing ‘Mainstream Media Bloodbath’ Is a Win for Truth2

    For weeks, news headlines across the country have told dismal tales of layoffs, cutbacks, strikes, and selloffs at some of America’s biggest media brands. The crisis became so dire that Axios called it a “mainstream media bloodbath,” reporting that “nearly a dozen mainstream media companies are gutting staff and scrambling to rescue their struggling businesses.”

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  • Could Our Governors Rescue America? Restoring the Constitution One State at a Time

    Could Our Governors Rescue America? Restoring the Constitution One State at a Time6

    Over half of the states—and the number is still growing—are now supporting Texas Governor Greg Abbott in his battle to control illegal immigration and to end the Biden administration’s disastrous policy of open borders. A statement issued by Abbott on January 24 begins, “The federal government has broken the compact between the United States and

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  • What Did Nietzsche Mean by ‘God is Dead’?

    What Did Nietzsche Mean by ‘God is Dead’?3

    In The Gay Science (1882), Friedrich Nietzsche’s character of the madman had proclaimed, “God is dead.” The Time cover for April 8, 1966, turned this proclamation into a provocative question for a world where religious practice was waning: But, though most people have heard of Nietzsche’s “God is dead” claim, there are few who understand

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  • Safetyism Eclipses Common Sense

    Safetyism Eclipses Common Sense0

    School’s out on April 8 for many kids in the U.S. and Canada. On that date, a full solar eclipse will be visible from Texas to Ontario, and “There are risks associated with viewing a solar eclipse,” several Toronto-area school boards announced. Those schools moved their May 17 kid-free professional development day to April 8

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  • Back in the Saddle Again: Some Reflections on Schools and Students

    Back in the Saddle Again: Some Reflections on Schools and Students0

    In late December, I agreed to teach a Latin class in a small, private Catholic school here in Front Royal, Virginia. The headmistress had approached me several times in years past about coming back to the classroom, but always, I had refused, in large part because of my already hectic schedule. This time was different.

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  • Friday Comic: A Helping Hand0

    Credit: OwenComics (store) Twitter: @owenbroadcast Instagram: @owenbroadcast Save this article to favorites

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  • Dostoevsky and American Despair: The Penalty of Nihilism

    Dostoevsky and American Despair: The Penalty of Nihilism3

    These chilling words, ringing with despair, come from one of the most striking characters in Fyodor Dostoevsky’s 1866 novel Crime and Punishment, Arkady Ivanovich Svidrigailov: We always imagine eternity as something beyond our conception, something vast, vast! But why must it be vast? Instead of all that, what if it’s one little room, like a

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  • The Dead Will Have Their Say

    The Dead Will Have Their Say2

    In his classic work Orthodoxy, G.K. Chesterton penned these profound words about tradition: Tradition is only democracy extended through time. … Tradition may be defined as an extension of the franchise. Tradition means giving votes to the most obscure of all classes, our ancestors. It is the democracy of the dead. Tradition refuses to submit

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