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  • Why Public School Teachers Might Have a Point About their Modest Salaries

    Why Public School Teachers Might Have a Point About their Modest Salaries0

    Education Next just released its annual report detailing American attitudes toward all things school. As usual, the responses were revealing. One of the most revealing revolved around the public’s knowledge of teacher salaries. As the chart below shows, the general population believes an average teacher gets paid around $40,000. In reality, that salary is closer

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  • Why Note-Taking by Hand Is Better for Your Brain

    Why Note-Taking by Hand Is Better for Your Brain0

    We all know Aesop’s fable about the Tortoise and the Hare but few of us really believe, in the real world, that slowcoaches like the tortoise have a cat in hell’s chance of beating those in life’s fast lane. Few really believe, with John Milton, that “they also serve who only stand and wait.” Those

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  • Why Americans Today Are So Quick to Join Mobs

    Why Americans Today Are So Quick to Join Mobs0

    For those of us not located in or near high-profile protests such as those in Charlottesville, it’s easy to sit back, sigh at the problems in the world, and then push them to the back of our minds. Some, however, though removed from the situation by distance, heartily throw themselves into the fray. These individuals,

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  • I Went to Charlottesville During the Protests. Here’s What I Saw.

    I Went to Charlottesville During the Protests. Here’s What I Saw.0

    I picked quite a time to go on a weekend trip to Charlottesville. What was supposed to be a nice getaway with my wife turned into a journey through the eye of a national media storm. On Saturday, clashes between “Unite the Right” protestors and “anti-fascist” counterprotesters at the foot of a Gen. Robert E.

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  • Christianity and Social Justice: What C.S. Lewis Said on the Subject

    Christianity and Social Justice: What C.S. Lewis Said on the Subject1

    Few would disagree with the assertion that politics increasingly pervades our culture.  Much of the politicization stems from the ideology of social justice, the idea that the distribution of wealth, opportunities, and privileges in our society (and the world) is unequal and needs to be rectified. Christians increasingly are called to join this fight. “Justice

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  • Would-Be Tyrants Capture Language to Control Thought

    Would-Be Tyrants Capture Language to Control Thought0

    Today’s counter-revolution against liberty is being fought on a number of fronts in American society. One is on college and university campuses across the country, where the ideology of “political correctness” is strangling freedom of speech and smothering intellectual controversy and debate.  Critical to this campaign is the capture of language. It is through our

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  • Why Smart People Aren’t Necessarily Rich

    Why Smart People Aren’t Necessarily Rich1

    If what my web analytics tell me is true, many of you reading this article have above-average IQs, but only a small percentage of you would crack the upper class in terms of income. Why is that? As the edge-laden question goes, “If you’re so smart, why aren’t you rich?” Well, IQ does have some

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  • Why Liberals Need David Duke

    Why Liberals Need David Duke0

    The race riots in Charlottesville, VA, have provided the liberal media with another opportunity to engage in the moral posturing at which they are so proficient. Racism is evil, but it is fortunately now exceptional and weak-to-non-existent as a political force. We don’t have institutional racism anymore, so we have to invent opportunities to lure

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  • Why Didn’t Sanctions Stop North Korea’s Missile Program?

    Why Didn’t Sanctions Stop North Korea’s Missile Program?0

    North Korea’s long-range missile program has made significant technological advances in the past few months. For most of the past 20 years, the international community has struggled to stop this kind of progress. Kim Jong Un’s plan to target four test missiles approximately 20 miles off the coast of the U.S. territory of Guam shows just how

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