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Does College Chaos Increase When Schools Fail to Teach this One Subject?0
- Culture
- April 25, 2017
Over the weekend, The Washington Post brought an interesting West Virginia school fight to the forefront. As the WaPo explains, schools in Mercer County have long held optional Bible classes during the day. Among other things, the classes teach character and classic stories from the biblical text. Many parents are supportive of the classes –
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Why is the Scientific Community Blaming Trump for Their Problems?0
- Science
- April 24, 2017
Scientists should spend more time in the laboratory and less time marching in the streets. If they did, perhaps they could solve some of the problems with science that they are blaming on other people. This weekend’s “March for Science” was held ostensibly to warn about the politicization of science and the threat to scientific
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Why I am Not a Libertarian 0
- Philosophy
- April 24, 2017
Libertarians are good at explaining why the market works and why government fails, and they have made important policy initiatives in areas such as school choice. On the other hand, they actively oppose laws prohibiting obscenity, protecting unborn children, promoting marriage, limiting immigration, and securing American citizens against terrorists. These positions flow from core principles
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U.S. Students Are Using the Tactics of Kim Jong-un 0
- Culture
- April 24, 2017
North Korea is perhaps the most miserable country on earth. An almost 100 percent command economy combined with an extremely repressive regime has produced unimaginable suffering for its people. Dysfunctional mindsets have terrible consequences. Rather than seeing the North Korean mindset as a cautionary tale, some American students—abetted by college administrators—seem to have adopted it.
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Oxford Prof: PC Culture is Encouraging Greater Racism 0
- Education
- April 24, 2017
It seems one can’t move a muscle these days without offending someone and setting the PC police on one’s trail. The latest example in this PC battle comes from across the pond at Oxford University. As The Telegraph explains, Oxford has now declared it racist to “avoid making eye contact” with others or asking an
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Bernie Sanders: Students Silencing Speakers ‘a Sign of Intellectual Weakness’0
- Culture
- April 24, 2017
It still remains unclear if Ann Coulter will be allowed to speak at the University of California Berkeley on Thursday as scheduled. Interestingly, it’s just not conservatives who say the political firebrand should be allowed to speak. Over the weekend, while speaking to the Huffington Post, Sen. Bernie Sanders joined the chorus of voices saying
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Beren and Lúthien: Tolkien’s Greatest Love Story 0
- Family
- April 24, 2017
There are many great literary love stories. Apart from fairytale princesses and their trysts with charming princes, we think perhaps of Romeo and Juliet, or Helen and Paris, or Odysseus and Penelope, or Aeneas and Dido, or Dante and Beatrice. And we think of those who gave us such lovers. Shakespeare, Homer, Virgil, Dante. We
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Your Socialism Is Bad and You Should Feel Bad 0
- Economics
- April 21, 2017
I’m tempted to say that statism is sort of like a cult. Proponents of socialism and other big-government ideologies have a dogmatic zeal that blinds them to reality. For instance, no nation has ever become rich with big government. But that doesn’t stop leftists from advocating in favor of higher taxes and more coercive redistribution.
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Why People Today Get So Angry about Politics 0
- Politics
- April 21, 2017
I frequently wonder why so many people today get so angry at those who share different opinions on politics. Well, I think it’s because our culture has come to see anger, at least in this case, as a virtue. A sentiment that pervades our society today, and is even spoon-fed to some students in schools,
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