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Why is Humility Important?0
- Culture
- May 4, 2017
An awful lot of people in this world are really puffed up about themselves. One of the character traits I wish were much more widely practiced these days is good old-fashioned humility. T. S. Eliot said, “Humility is the most difficult of all virtues to achieve; nothing dies harder than the desire to think well
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Is NPR Pushing Propaganda about the Benefits of Preschool?0
- Education
- May 4, 2017
The other day, NPR published an article on the benefits of Pre-K education. Highlighting a recent consensus statement on preschool released by The Brookings Institute, the article went bonkers on social media, presumably because of the following announcement: “Some of the nation’s top researchers who’ve spent their careers studying early childhood education recently got together
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Is John F. Kennedy Responsible for the Alt-Right?0
- History
- May 4, 2017
JFK and the Masculine Mystique: Sex and Power on the New Frontier, is a powerful and incisive new book about men. Written by Steven Watts, the book combines thorough research, penetrating analysis, and graceful prose. One of the more intriguing arguments in the book is that Kennedy was responsible for unmooring traditional values due to
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Arizona Lawmaker Urges End to Compulsory Schooling0
- Education
- May 4, 2017
Most Americans agree that an educated citizenry is a priority for a thriving democracy. In fact, the first compulsory education statute was passed in Massachusetts Bay Colony not long after the Pilgrims arrived. In 1642, that first compulsory education law prioritized childhood literacy, but it placed the responsibility on parents to educate their children. It
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3 Reasons To Consider an Internet Detox0
- Culture
- May 4, 2017
On January 1, 2017, I made a New Year’s resolution to make my Sundays Internet free. This involved not going online Sundays for any reason, whether it be for email, updates, or inquiries. I did this because I realized just how much leisure time I was wasting on the Internet. I wanted to devote Sunday
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Why Do People Become Communists, and Why Do They Stick With It?0
- Economics
- May 3, 2017
For as long as I can remember, I’ve puzzled about why people become communists. I have no doubt about why someone would stop being one. After all, we have a century of evidence of the murder, famine, and general destruction caused by the idea. Ignoring all this takes a special kind of willful blindness to
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Why are Men Getting Shut Out of the Workforce?0
- Culture
- May 3, 2017
There’s a lot of talk about misogyny these days. Women, it is claimed, are still very much maligned and treated unfairly, and as such, must fight to break through the glass ceiling of the working world. I won’t deny that such may be the case. However, I wonder if we’ve placed such a heavy emphasis
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Where did Nazi doctors learn their ethics?0
- Education
- May 3, 2017
German medicine under Hitler resulted in so many horrors – eugenics, human experimentation, forced sterilization, involuntary euthanasia, mass murder – that there is a temptation to say that “Nazi doctors had no ethics”. However, according to an article in the Annals of Internal Medicine by Florian Bruns and Tessa Chelouche (from Germany and Israel respectively),
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Not All Parents Want Their Children to be Social Justice Warriors0
- Education
- May 3, 2017
My article yesterday on the indoctrination taking place at a Minnesota elementary school continues to generate controversy. To recap: the article pointed out numerous examples showing that the K-5 students of Highlands Elementary in Edina are being encouraged to become activists who view the world through the lens of race. Today, I wanted to continue
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