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  • Why Do Schools Shut Parents Out of the Classroom?

    Why Do Schools Shut Parents Out of the Classroom?2

    When I was younger, I heard that a sign of a good music teacher was an instructor who welcomed parents to sit in on a child’s lesson. Recognizing the value of this advice, I incorporated it into my own private studio when I began teaching several years later. Sure, it was a bit awkward at

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  • Wellesley Student Paper Defends Censorship… with Horrible Grammar

    Wellesley Student Paper Defends Censorship… with Horrible Grammar0

    Critics of political correctness allege that America’s college students are now so immersed in ideological political activism that they are not learning very much. How to write English, for example. Editors at the Wellesley College student newspaper, The Wellesley News, recently wrote an editorial defending the intolerance now sweeping the nation’s universities. Unfortunately, in their

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  • Want to Age Gracefully? Dress Like a Lady

    Want to Age Gracefully? Dress Like a Lady0

    “When I was fifteen years old, I wanted to be a vamp—with a black veil, and a cigarette holder,” Carolina Herrera recalled in an interview with W magazine. “Because I was watching all these fantastic movies with Greta Garbo and Marlene Dietrich and all these very glamorous ladies, so I wanted to look like that.”

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  • The Income Tax Basically Implies that Government Owns You

    The Income Tax Basically Implies that Government Owns You0

    The income tax is enshrined into law but it is an idea that stands in total contradiction to the driving force behind the American Revolution and the idea of freedom itself. We desperately need a serious national movement to get rid of it – not reform it, not replace it, not flatten it or refocus

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  • Technology Addiction and the Gollumizing of Our Culture

    Technology Addiction and the Gollumizing of Our Culture0

    Is technology liberating? Does science-driven “progress” make us happier? Not so, says social psychologist, Adam Alter, in his new book, Irresistible: The Rise of Addictive Technology and the Business of Keeping Us Hooked. “In the past, we thought of addiction as mostly related to chemical substances: heroin, cocaine, nicotine,” says Dr. Alter, an associate professor

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  • On Syria and the Confusion of Consuming News in the Age of Trump

    On Syria and the Confusion of Consuming News in the Age of Trump0

    We were warned. What would happen? Who could we trust? In the era of fake news, “alternative facts,” insult, and innuendo, when the time came…who was to be believed? In the fog of war–even of limited war and tactical skirmishes–the truth splinters into half-truths, conflicting conclusions, and incomplete accounts. On Tuesday, April 11,2017, the Washington

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  • How Jefferson Fostered Rational Thinking in Politics

    How Jefferson Fostered Rational Thinking in Politics0

    April 13 marked the birthday of American hero Thomas Jefferson. Best known for his role in penning the Declaration of Independence, Jefferson also held the rare and prestigious post of President of the United States. His path to the White House, however, was long and contentious, a fact referenced numerous times during the equally bitter

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  • Gallup asked Americans why they go to church. It’s not for the music.

    Gallup asked Americans why they go to church. It’s not for the music.1

    On Good Friday, Gallup published results of a survey that asked respondents why they go to church (or some other place of worship). Some fifteen hundred adults across the nation were asked to which degree these seven things were important to them: 1. Sermons or talks that teach you more about scripture; 2. Sermons or

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  • Does All Rational Thought Involve ‘Faith’?

    Does All Rational Thought Involve ‘Faith’?0

    It has become common—even among most religious people—to assume that there is a vast gulf between reason and faith. Reason is seen as some sort of neutral, unbiased tool that men and women can use to arrive at truth, or perhaps only what some refer to as “facts.” Faith, on the other hand, is seen

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