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  • Mothers Are Not Widgets

    Mothers Are Not Widgets0

    Women are only as valuable as their GDP contribution allows. This is the message emanating from a new Canadian study on the female workforce and economic growth. The report, an International Monetary Fund (IMF) working paper entitled, “Women Are Key for Future Growth: Evidence from Canada,” finds that “an increase in female labor force participation

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  • Majority of Google Employees Say Firing of Memo Author Was Wrong

    Majority of Google Employees Say Firing of Memo Author Was Wrong0

    Google’s firing of engineer James Damore continues to garner national attention. The tech giant fired Damore earlier this week after his 10-page memo, titled “Google’s Ideological Echo Chamber,” ignited a storm of criticism—even though numerous scientists said Damore’s findings, which suggested biological differences between men and women might be one reason women are underrepresented in

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  • Indoctrination in American Schools: How bad is it?

    Indoctrination in American Schools: How bad is it?0

    (The above image is that of a jacket worn by a teacher in a West Virginia public school.) The father of America’s public education system, Horace Mann, famously quipped: “Men are cast-iron, but children are wax.“ Mann knew that education was never a “value-neutral” proposition. It has always been and always will be a process

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  • How Our Culture Came to Scorn Physical Work

    How Our Culture Came to Scorn Physical Work0

    As economic prosperity continues to spread, and as the American economy completes its transition into the age of information, manual labor is increasingly cast down in the popular imagination. When our youth navigate and graduate from high school, they receive a range of pressures to attend four-year colleges and pursue various “white-collar” careers, whether in

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  • Does This Viral Request for a Bride Reveal What Men Want in a Wife?

    Does This Viral Request for a Bride Reveal What Men Want in a Wife?0

    Every once in a while, an individual will pop up with a clever joke or parody that gives a viral chuckle and reassures us that humor is not, in fact, as dead as we’ve presumed. An example of this recently appeared in Scotland’s agricultural want ads. As the Daily Record explains, a 37-year-old farmer by

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  • Classical High School Students Say This Attribute Defines the West

    Classical High School Students Say This Attribute Defines the West0

    Josh Herring teaches history at a secular, classical academy – but as with all teachers, sometimes he learns valuable lessons from his students. As high school students at the Thales Academy progress from studying ancient cultures to modernity, they invariably tell him they are struck by one principle that sets the Judeo-Christian West apart from previous civilizations.

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  • 3 Ways College Hinders Students

    3 Ways College Hinders Students0

    Across the country, students of all backgrounds and interests are gearing up to begin another semester of college. And there’s good news this time around! As NPR recently explained, tuition is remaining stable instead of growing at twice the inflation rate as it has for the last 26 years. But in spite of this rosy

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  • This University President Can’t Take a Joke

    This University President Can’t Take a Joke0

    A university president recently addressed his campus community about an incident that had shaken his Wisconsin school. “The last few days have been painful ones for many members of our community, as they have also been for me,” wrote Lawrence University’s Mark Burstein. “The event and its aftermath have left many students wondering whether the University cares

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  • The Surprisingly Similar Authoritarian Rhetoric of Trump and Obama

    The Surprisingly Similar Authoritarian Rhetoric of Trump and Obama0

    Six months have passed since Donald Trump entered the Oval Office. His administration remains deeply understaffed. His legislative agenda is stymied. He has been active in issuing executive orders, but many are toothless, others are only in the early stages of undoing Obama policies and some are tied up in the courts. So far, Trump’s leadership has

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