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Why Only Christianity Can Save the West… Again 2
- Culture
- September 5, 2017
Hellenistic thought experienced its “golden age” during the the 5th and 4th centuries B.C. This period witnessed the lives of some of history’s greatest philosophers, teachers, authors, and playwrights, and culminated with the spreading of Hellenism by Alexander the Great. But by the end of the 1st century B.C., Hellenistic thought had been exhausted. Its
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Why Hate Eradicators Should Reconsider the Removal of Christopher Columbus Statues 0
- Culture
- September 5, 2017
They came aboard ships … just over five million they were, migrating to the United States over five decades between the late 19th and early 20th Centuries. They were Italians. They came ashore, mostly on Ellis Island in New York, but there were also other ports of call like Boston and New Orleans. With few
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The Broken-Window Fallacy Is Alive and Well, Hurricane Harvey Proves 0
- Economics
- September 5, 2017
As Hurricane Harvey, now tropical storm Harvey, makes its way across the southern US, estimates have already come in as to the cost of the storm. According to AccuWeather, Harvey is expected to cost upwards of $190 billion in damages, one percent of the national GDP. This makes Harvey the costliest storm ever to hit the United
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How Adults Can Discover What Schools Are Really Teaching Kids 0
- Culture
- September 5, 2017
Homeschoolers are no strangers to questions concerning their decision to educate their children at home. Such a choice opens them up to inquiries on everything from their qualifications to whether their children will be socially well-adjusted. Homeschool parents realize that such questions are natural and come with the territory. But according to a recent Washington
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Civil Discourse Seems to be at an All-time Low. Why?0
- Culture
- September 5, 2017
In an age where partisanship reigns supreme, there seems to be one issue on which members of both the Left and Right agree, namely, the declining presence of civil discourse. Nowhere was this more apparent than in a recent townhall style meeting in Damariscotta, Maine. As The Boston Globe reports: More than 100 Mainers showed
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9 Books to Understand the Collectivist Right 0
- Economics
- September 5, 2017
The fast and furious rise of the alt-right in Europe, the UK, and the US has caught many people intellectually off-guard. I can speak for myself in this respect. My education and reading prepared me well to understand the statism of the left. My instincts became finely tuned. The threat to liberty from the right
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Why Our Education System Failed to Teach that Nazis Are Bad 0
- Culture
- September 1, 2017
Last month’s torchlight parade in Charlottesville represented, among other things, the utter failure of modern public education and much of modern public discourse. The Great Lesson The clearest, most consistent message we have received from childhood on up is that “Nazis are evil.” Hitler is cast, over and over again, as our civic religion’s Satan.
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University Prof: Freshman Class Achieves 100 Percent Failure Rate on Diagnostic Test 0
- Education
- September 1, 2017
Americans are increasingly haunted by the fear that their schools are dumbing down lessons. This fear intensifies when “college-ready” students enroll in higher education and realize they’re not equipped to keep up with its academic demands. But this situation is not unique to American schools. As a university level instructor recently noted in The Guardian,
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The Deep State: How it Came to Be and Why it Fights so Hard 0
- Culture
- September 1, 2017
Increasingly, it looks like the political fight isn’t between Republicans and Democrats, but rather the American people against the Deep State. More and more often we are seeing bureaucrats, lobbyists, and elected officials of both parties circle the wagons so to say in an effort to prevent any true reforms of our government. While we
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Why Only Christianity Can Save the West… Again 2