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  • What if School Was More Like Summer Camp?

    What if School Was More Like Summer Camp?1

    For many children, summer camp is transformational. Working collaboratively, mostly through play and hands-on experimentation, campers try new things, encounter new challenges, and meet new mentors and friends. They are often outside, exploring the world around them, with ample opportunities for freedom and self-expression. Then summer ends and they go back to school, confined in

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  • What Did That Confederate Statue in Durham Stand For?

    What Did That Confederate Statue in Durham Stand For?0

    As I watched a crowd of militant Leftists in Durham, North Carolina this week pull down a statue of a Confederate soldier, I was left not only angry but befuddled by the ignorance of it all: the vitriol of the mob focused on this seemingly inoffensive monument depicting a common soldier, seemingly war-weary and tired,

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  • The Nursery School Where the Children are in Charge

    The Nursery School Where the Children are in Charge0

    America’s education system as we know it was founded in the mid-1800s by Horace Mann. Among other things, Mann’s education program included top-down control of a factory-like, state-run school system, a method adopted from the province we now refer to as Germany. But it appears that 19th century Germany wasn’t the only era to lead

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  • Star Trek Taught Us How to Deal With Microaggressions

    Star Trek Taught Us How to Deal With Microaggressions1

    Growing up, my father was a big Star Trek fan. As a child, I didn’t really care for the show. It was a bit too philosophical for a 9-year-old and there were no light sabers to be found. Eventually I became a fan of the show, however. I learned to appreciate its writing, which was

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  • Is a Lack of Hands-on Work Making Us Angry?

    Is a Lack of Hands-on Work Making Us Angry?0

    I recently stumbled upon an interesting tidbit out of Green Bay. According to local news station WBAY, a number of inmates at a nearby prison have taken up a new hobby: knitting. I initially raised my eyebrows over this piece of information, but then I looked into the issue more closely. The inmates’ knitting efforts

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  • Charlie Chaplin Showed Us a Better Way to Deal With Nazis

    Charlie Chaplin Showed Us a Better Way to Deal With Nazis0

    White nationalists and neo-Nazis are having their moment. Former Ku Klux Klan Imperial Wizard David Duke is back, yet again, in the media spotlight, while newer figures such as white supremacist Richard Spencer and Christopher Cantwell are broadcasting their views via social media feeds and niche internet channels. Many Americans are wondering if this resurgent

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  • To Be A Happy Person, Understand Marginal Utility

    To Be A Happy Person, Understand Marginal Utility0

    I’m at dinner and the hostess serves me pie for dessert. I gobble it up. Then the hostess says, “Would you like another piece?” I politely decline. In her head, she is thinking “he hates my pie,” but this is totally wrong. I love her pie, especially the first piece. But the second piece has

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  • Study Reveals How Parents May Help Children Weather the Culture Wars

    Study Reveals How Parents May Help Children Weather the Culture Wars0

    When Donald Trump was first elected for president, the news media began to ask how parents could best raise their children under the shadow of his leadership. TIME suggested parents teach their daughters to resist sexism. Jezebel insisted that parents raise sons by “refusing to engage in reductive binaries.” And the Huffington Post suggested that

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  • Scottish NYU Student: U.S. Universities ‘Stifling’ and ‘Dangerously Insular’

    Scottish NYU Student: U.S. Universities ‘Stifling’ and ‘Dangerously Insular’0

    In a recent article for The Spectator, New York University journalism major Madeleine Kearns wrote about her first year at a U.S. university. The experience she describes does not sound very positive. Kearns, who was born in Glasgow, Scotland describes an environment that would have looked like a parody of a university setting a generation

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