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School District Nixes Homework for Thousands of Students as Expert Says It’s Basically Useless0
- Culture
- July 17, 2017
The anti-homework trend is growing. It started with the teacher from Texas who banned homework from her second grade class, encouraging families to spend time reading, playing, and eating together instead. It spread to a New Jersey elementary school, where the principal and his teaching staff voted to be homework free for the 2016-2017 school
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College Students Love Socialism… But Don’t Have a Clue What it Means0
- Culture
- July 17, 2017
In an article written last month for the New York Times, 29-year-old Sarah Leonard suggested that millennials are turning to socialism in droves. The reason, she opined, is that capitalism has let them down: “Across Europe and the United States, millennials are worse off than their parents were and are too poor to start new
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‘Study History’—Defense Secretary’s Advice to Anxious Americans0
- History
- July 17, 2017
Last month, The Washington Post accidentally leaked Defense Secretary James Mattis’ personal cellphone number. Teddy Fischer—an enterprising 17-year-old journalist at Mercer Island High School (WA)—used the opportunity to text Mattis and request an interview for his high school newspaper. Surprisingly, Mattis granted the request, and the interview was recently published on the school newspaper’s website.
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Why Conservatives Should Care More about Cities0
- History
- July 14, 2017
It’s a time-honoured tradition in America, since the days of Jefferson and even before, to decry the evils of city life. One sees a great deal of this tradition in modern conservative discourse. Small-town America is the ‘real America’, the unpretentious, authentic, hardworking America with healthy values, and the big cities are full of crime
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What’s Behind the Surge in Tattoos?0
- Culture
- July 14, 2017
By now, you may have heard of the New Zealand man, Mark Cropp, who made a desperate plea for a job on Facebook. His lack of employment was not due to his lack of muscle, nor his will to work, nor even his past criminal record. It was due to a tattoo. As Cropp’s picture
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Wealthy Minnesota School District Treating Its Students Like Racists0
- Education
- July 14, 2017
In May, I reported on the controversial social justice curriculum being taught to young students in Edina Public Schools—a wealthy suburban district in Minnesota considered to be among the state’s best. At Edina’s Highlands Elementary this past year, students—even kindergartners and first-graders—were made to participate in a number of projects designed to teach them about
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The Libertarian Edition of ‘Game of Thrones’0
- Culture
- July 14, 2017
On Sunday, HBO’s hit series Game of Thrones returns for its seventh season. To mark the occasion, ReasonTV offered up freedom-filled parody that is, well, brilliant. Don’t take it from me; watch for yourself. (WARNING: This content contains hilarious profanity) Save this article to favorites
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Stop Patronizing Parents’ School Choice Decisions, Please0
- Education
- July 14, 2017
Whenever we engage in discussions around school choice (charter schools, vouchers, and so on), it’s important to remember the origins of the mass schooling apparatus. In the mid-19th century when the first compulsory schooling statutes took hold–mandating attendance under a legal threat of force–the bureaucrats most responsible for compelling school for the masses had no
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Millennial Offers the True Reason Her Generation is So Fragile1
- Culture
- July 14, 2017
The caricature of the emotionally fragile millennial is a powerful and pervasive one in our culture today. Theories abound offering explanations as to why many members of this younger generation seems less equipped to deal with conflict and are so easily “offended.” There is the coddling parents hypothesis. The social isolation hypothesis. The Machiavellian hypothesis.
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