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  • What Trump Could Learn about Flattery from Reading Plutarch

    What Trump Could Learn about Flattery from Reading Plutarch0

    Nero may have fiddled while Rome burned, but it was the flattery of his courtiers that convinced the emperor he could get away with it. In his essay, “How to Tell a Flatterer from a Friend,” the late Roman historian Plutarch gestures at Nero, speculating that if the emperor had known to silence his flatterers,

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  • This is What Happpens When You Introduce 4-Year-Olds to an Old People’s Home

    This is What Happpens When You Introduce 4-Year-Olds to an Old People’s Home0

    Lying on the floor pretending to roar like a lion can do wonders for an elderly man’s well-being. That’s not a scientific fact, but it was one of the surprising and memorable moments we observed while making a television program which introduced a group of very young people with residents of a retirement village. The

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  • Should a Christian be a Foodie?

    Should a Christian be a Foodie?0

    One of the highly celebrated pleasures of our time is fine cuisine. All manner of foodie hotspots have sprung up as TV shows and social media continue to popularize delicious, unique food. But should Christians partake in the foodie culture? Not long ago, Christians saw abstaining from worldly pleasures as a way to deny the

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  • Scholar: Many Schools Today Are ‘Indoctrination Centers’

    Scholar: Many Schools Today Are ‘Indoctrination Centers’4

    Here in my city, parents with privilege have many choices. They can send their children to progressive private schools with no grades and no tests, Montessori or Waldorf schools that each focus on a specific value system and learning philosophy, parochial schools, or traditional independent schools. They can also choose to send their children to

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  • K-12 School Agrees to Gender Inclusion Policy With No Notice or ‘Opt Out’ for Parents

    K-12 School Agrees to Gender Inclusion Policy With No Notice or ‘Opt Out’ for Parents0

    After facing a lawsuit over its treatment of a kindergartener who identifies as transgender, a nationally recognized public charter school in Minnesota has agreed to adopt a far-reaching inclusionary policy. In the settlement, the school promised to establish a gender inclusion policy that doesn’t allow parents to opt out “based on religious or conscience objections,”

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  • How Sensitivity Killed Common Sense

    How Sensitivity Killed Common Sense0

    If you were to name one quality which has come to be highly sought after and demanded in today’s world, what would it be?  For my money, I would say that sensitivity fits the bill. As such, a white person who chooses to wear hoop earrings or style his hair in dreadlocks is guilty of

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  • Google Engineer Fired for Questioning Diversity in Memo—But Four Scientists Say He Was Right

    Google Engineer Fired for Questioning Diversity in Memo—But Four Scientists Say He Was Right0

    Google engineer James Damore had a Jerry Maguire moment. And he ended up exactly like Jerry Maguire.   Damore was fired by Google this week after his 10-page memo, titled “Google’s Ideological Echo Chamber,” ignited a storm of criticism.   The memo, the text of which can be read here, suggested that biological differences could

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  • Christian Art Stinks Today. Why?

    Christian Art Stinks Today. Why?3

    I’ve long wondered why it is that modern Christians contribute so little art of merit to our culture. I’ll occasionally make this point to fellow Christians over cocktails when I feel naughty. Invariably, my thesis meets pushback. “What about Tolkien and Lewis,” they contend. “Oh, and Chesterton.” When it is pointed out they are citing

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  • Why Do Progressives Hate the West So Much?

    Why Do Progressives Hate the West So Much?0

    President Trump was right to defend the West, a civilization which goes back to the Homeric epic and the Hebrew prophets, and having been baptized by Christ, is “not the property of any particular race but the universal aspiration of humankind”… In an essay for The Atlantic earlier this month, Peter Beinart, an associate professor of journalism

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