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  • Trump’s Right: The West Must First Have the Will to Survive

    Trump’s Right: The West Must First Have the Will to Survive0

    By now, I think most of us are aware that President Donald Trump is no great student of history or ideas. But he does give voice to some statements that are pregnant with truth, even if perhaps neither a deep understanding nor practice of that truth is exemplified in Trump’s personal life. One of these

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  • The Attack on Hobby Lobby Is Incoherent and Unjust

    The Attack on Hobby Lobby Is Incoherent and Unjust0

    The mainstream press has accused Hobby Lobby, a great and beloved American company, of hypocrisy, unchristian behavior, smuggling, stealing, and even funding terrorism. As punishment, and concluding an investigation that has been going on for six years, the US government has extracted from the company a fine of $3 million, and the company is sending to the government property it bought

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  • Studying Philosophy Doesn’t Necessarily Make One Smarter

    Studying Philosophy Doesn’t Necessarily Make One Smarter0

    Does studying philosophy improve one’s thinking, and thus make one more employable? Some top and not-so-top philosophy departments, concerned by the threat of declining enrollment and funding cuts, would have you believe it does. But Neven Sesardic, who has taught philosophy at universities around the globe and can boast some impressive publications, says that there’s

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  • Should Religious Teaching Be Allowed in Public Schools?

    Should Religious Teaching Be Allowed in Public Schools?0

    I was recently told about the experiences of an English teacher who took a job at a public school in a Midwestern town. At the very least, one might say that this teacher dealt with some… interesting behavior over the course of the school year. But what I found most fascinating about this teacher’s story

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  • NPR Explains How You Can Turn Your 2-Year-Old into a Social Justice Warrior

    NPR Explains How You Can Turn Your 2-Year-Old into a Social Justice Warrior0

    Via NPR: Social activist Innosanto Nagara wanted to find a fun book to read to his 2-year-old son that also talked about the importance of social justice. He wasn’t looking for the typical fiction written for children, instead, he was looking for unique narratives — by writers of color and/or authors who can speak about

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  • Is Diversity Becoming a Religious Cult?

    Is Diversity Becoming a Religious Cult?0

    The distinguished Catholic theologian Paul Griffiths was purged from Duke Divinity School for refusing to worship at the shrine of Diversity. No doubt this was a case of “You’re fired/I quit.” But we have here not just a question of academic freedom, but also a theological controversy, which in earlier ages would have led to

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  • Huxley Predicted the Future of Education

    Huxley Predicted the Future of Education0

    Sensible and reasonable people often disagree on the purpose of education.  As we’ve seen, men as renowned as Cicero and Benjamin Franklin believed the primary purpose of education was to build character and virtue in pupils. Moral education of this kind is likely to be palatable to most people—at least when a society enjoys general homogeneity

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  • Gardening: An Overlooked Path to STEM Education?

    Gardening: An Overlooked Path to STEM Education?0

    Like most children, I began my formal schooling at age five. At the same time, I also began learning in another, less formal school: the school of nature. This less formal schooling commenced when my best friend gave me a small zucchini plant in a decorative tin mug. I planted it in a corner of

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  • Couples Don’t Need Wedding Loans. They Need More Modest Weddings

    Couples Don’t Need Wedding Loans. They Need More Modest Weddings0

    It’s been fifty-four years since Jessica Mitford skewered the funeral industry in The American Way of Death, and twenty-five years since she followed up with The American Way of Birth, which was equally scathing. Unfortunately, Mitford died without writing the third part of what should have been a trilogy. Missing is an exploration of the

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