Blog 3 Columns

BBC Reporter’s False Trump Tweet Reveals a Sad Truth 0
- Culture
- June 9, 2017
Winston Churchill once quipped that “a lie gets halfway around the world before the truth has a chance to get its pants on.” One wonders what Churchill would have thought about the age of social media, when a falsehood can quite literally make laps around the world before the truth can even find pants.
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These 13 Counties Started Work Requirements for Food Stamps. Here’s What Happened.0
- Economics
- June 8, 2017
Participation in the food stamp program plunged by 85 percent in 13 counties in Alabama after officials required that recipients must work, look for work, or get approved job training, a state agency says. In those 13 counties, enrollment in food stamps dropped over four months from 5,538 able-bodied adults without dependents to 831 such
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The Importance of Chesterton, Tolkien and Lewis 0
- Education
- June 8, 2017
[Editor’s Note: Joseph Pearce recently granted the following interview to The Whetstone, a student newspaper of Montreal College, North Carolina.] What do you see as your role, your calling, and how does it correlate with your work as a scholar? I am trying to serve as a cultural catalyst, evangelizing the wider culture with the beauty of
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The Afghanistan Quagmire Never Ends. Why?0
- International
- June 8, 2017
What exactly is the US military doing in Afghanistan? I’m hardly alone in wondering. The confusion is so widespread that opposition has bled into public indifference. After a decade and a half – six years longer than the US had troops in Vietnam – it’s just something we do. What we are doing and
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Less Schooling, More Apprenticeships 0
- Education
- June 8, 2017
Apprenticeships first appeared in the later Middle Ages as an opportunity for young people, usually between the ages of 10 and 15, to gain practical skills and on-the-job training from a master craftsman. These adolescent apprentices came of age immersed in authentic experiences and surrounded by adult mentors. The term “adolescence” comes from the
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Lemonade Stands Legalized in Utah 0
- Culture
- June 8, 2017
Summer is almost officially here, which means parents all over the country will soon be losing their minds trying to figure out how to occupy their children for three whole months. In the American tradition, the summer months have always been a time to teach the next generation about hard work and responsibility. Older children
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‘Chatting with dolphins by 2021’: Why it’s not going to happen 0
- Philosophy
- June 8, 2017
Every couple of months comes a story about some animal that has been trained to talk. But a little research always reveals that the animal involved might be able to learn to put a few words together but never that it communicates the way humans do. Hoover the seal could say, “Get outta here!”; Blackie
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Why Governments Shouldn’t Even Fund Schools 1
- Economics
- June 7, 2017
Education reporters frequently make the claim that government ought to fund and operate educational institutions because schooling is a public good. However, since schooling fails both conditions required for a public good to exist, schools should not be publicly operated. Schooling is Not a Public Good According to the economic definition, a public good is
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The Top 100 Hotels in the World 0
- Culture
- June 7, 2017
Time magazine has a cool article breaking down the top 100 hotels in the world. Back when I was a magazine editor, I often received invitations for press trips which involved visits to great historic places – from the Alamo in San Antonio to Flanders Fields in Belgium to the Tredegar Iron Works in Richmond.
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BBC Reporter’s False Trump Tweet Reveals a Sad Truth 0