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What Princess Charlotte’s Portrait Teaches Us About Raising Adults 0
- Culture
- May 1, 2017
Whenever a picture of one of the royal children comes out, it’s sure to be plastered over every magazine and newspaper for days to come. Such is the case with the latest birthday portrait of Princess Charlotte (shown above), which Kensington Palace posted on its Instagram page. As has been noted, the portrait shows that
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Pope Francis Has Forgotten the Church’s Own Grand Libertarian Legacy 0
- Economics
- May 1, 2017
Well, it’s a pretty big deal when the Pope attacks libertarianism by name. It’s even more interesting when my Spanish-language publisher believes that the Pope, in an academic paper, was attacking language used by me in particular, by implication but without citation. In a choice passage, the Pope says that libertarianism “deceptively proposes a ‘beautiful
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Millennial Journalists Behaving Badly 0
- Culture
- May 1, 2017
On Friday, former Wall Street Journal writer Bret Stephens wrote his first column for the New York Times. And boy, did it cause a fuss. The column, headlined “Climate of Complete Certainty,” politely pushed back on the idea that the narrative of climate change is settled science. Stephens, referencing an article penned by Times writer
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How May Day Went From a Religious Holiday to a Socialist One 0
- Economics
- May 1, 2017
It’s the Merry Month of May: Spring is bursting, the birds are singing…and political riots are detonating. Without a doubt, May is a month with motley associations—natural, religious, and political. In many ancient cultures May 1 was regarded as the full arrival of Spring, as expressed in the traditions of dancing around the maypole and
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3 Warning Signs Your Life is a Sitcom About Nothing 0
- Culture
- May 1, 2017
Mo Gawdat is the Chief Business Officer at Google X—the “moonshot’ division of Google that is responsible for speculative projects, such as Google’s driverless cars. Devastated by the sudden and unexpected loss of his beloved teenage son, Ali, Gawdat decided to put his engineering mindset into analyzing what produces happiness. Happiness, Gawdat writes in his
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3 Reasons One Public School Advocate is Giving Up on the System 0
- Education
- May 1, 2017
When it comes to discussion of public schools, all too often battle lines seem to be drawn between those on the inside and outside of the system: the teachers and the parents. The teachers understandably want to defend the job they do, while the parents want to ensure that their child doesn’t become another dismal
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Why Joel Osteen is the Perfect Pastor for Our Times 5
- Culture
- April 28, 2017
For years, I’ve sort of known who Joel Osteen is. If you walk into a bookstore, his giant, smiling face seems everywhere. But until a couple of weeks ago, I had never heard Osteen preach. Meet the Press had just concluded this last Sunday, and I was slow to turn the TV off. As I
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Why All-Men’s Colleges Are Under Siege 0
- Culture
- April 28, 2017
There are over 4,000 colleges and universities in the United States. There are only four that are all male. But that is at least one too many, apparently. A California Appeals Court ruled last week that Deep Springs College, a school with only twenty-six students, may start admitting women. Founded a century ago by industrialist
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This 1886 Cornell English Syllabus May Explain Why College Students Can’t Write 0
- Education
- April 28, 2017
According to the Nation’s Report Card, only 27 percent of 8th graders attain proficiency in writing. But no problem, right? They’re just leaving middle school. Give them a few years under the instruction of high school English instructors and all will be well. That seems to be wishful thinking, for the Nation’s Report Card shows
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What Princess Charlotte’s Portrait Teaches Us About Raising Adults 0